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Cultural relics on their way home
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Cultural relics, remnants of history, are regarded as records of
the rise and fall of a nation.
Many Chinese cultural relics, which have been scattered around the
world over the last century, have started to return home to the
collections of Chinese cultural institutions, enterprises and
residents over the past decade.
This wave of returning artifacts has aroused issues concerning the
protection of China's cultural heritage and the development of the
antique market in the countr...
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Stop profiting at cost of cultural relics
China Daily
; Local governments should not acquire economic profits at the expense of impairing cultural relics, urged an article in Guangming Daily. Driven by instant gains, some local governments encourage cultural relics to be transferred to tourism companies for management and exploitation. This practice
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Cultural relics on their way home
China Daily
; Cultural relics, remnants of history, are regarded as records of the rise and fall of a nation. Many Chinese cultural relics, which have been scattered around the world over the last century, have started to return home to the collections of Chinese cultural institutions, enterprises and residents
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Relics authority pledges action
China Daily
; China's cultural-heritage authority yesterday pledged it would take effective measures to protect the country's cultural relics in accordance with the newly amended Law on Cultural Relics Protection. The new law came into effect on Monday after being approved by the National People's Congress
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Reclaiming cultural relics from overseas
China Daily
; Cultural relic experts and NGOs have set the wheels in motion to begin reclaiming China's national treasures from abroad, said an article in Beijing Review. The following are excerpts from the article: On April 11, the China Cultural Relics Recovery Programme, funded by the China Foundation for the
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Tracing cultural remnants for memory
China Daily
; ... variety of Chinese historians and archaeologists. In late 1996, Zhang, then a producer at the audio and video sector of the Xinhua News Agency, finally decided to document the fate of Chinese cultural relics through the use of cinematography. "There is a story ...
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Cultural relics being forgotten
China Daily
; Archaeologists' views should be taken seriously when urban construction is considered, says an article in Jiangnan Times. An excerpt follows: Another ancient tomb has been damaged in Nanjing, capital city of East China's Jiangsu Province. According to local media reports, the tomb was located in a
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The cultural relics distribution characteristics along the canal line and appraisal of its influence by the middle route project for water transferring from south to north China
Human and Ecological Risk Assessment
; ABSTRACT Assessments of the impacts of environmental hazards on ecological systems and human health have become a subject of ever-increasing importance. In this work, we extend current ecological hazard evaluation to the problem of protecting cultural relics from hazards attributable to the
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Terracotta warriors go public?
China Daily
; ... benefit the development of the western region. Debates go on Once again, the news generated heated debates. Opinions have been widely divided as to whether the ... relics market. The author is a senior researcher with the China Cultural Relics News.
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Urban growth with caring hands
China Daily
; Should ancient houses in narrow hutongs be pulled down to make way for skyscrapers and wider streets? That's a question facing Chinese architects and engineers as they grapple with development of modern cities and try to keep the harmony between urbanization and ancient culture. The protection of
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Scholar Streses Better Protection of Cultural Relics, XINHUA
Xinhua (China)
; Xinhua (China) 08-16-2000 DUNHUANG (GANSU), August 16 (Xinhua) -- Fan Jinshi, a noted Chinese expert on Dunhuang studies, said today that the country should make greater efforts to protect its cultural relics. Fan, also president of the Dunhuang Academy, suggested that laws should be implemented to
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