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...grave robbers had relieved the tomb's chambers of any gold or silver centuries ago. But now collectors were willing to pay for artifacts the farmers hadn't imagined anyone would want: clay pots grimy with antiquity, chipped ceramic statuettes and other detritus of burial rites. A local antiques dealer offered prospective tomb raiders $60 for a night's work--about the same amount the average local earns after taxes in a year...
Furthermore, in ancient civilizations such as India and China, some spoils of war and colonialism purloined a century or two ago by invaders have gradually come to be considered the legitimate property of whoever possesses them. Many international dealers and auction houses argue that Asia's turbulent history makes it simply impossible for them to track the chain of ownership. But He, from Beijing-based Cultural Heritage Watch, says dealers aren't trying hard enough and adds, "Can you imagine a Renoir suddenly appearing on the international market without any history of where it came from? It's outrageous that...
Nevertheless, isolated victories do occur, as in the case of some of the figurines looted from Empress Dou's tomb. By February 2002, the Xi'an police had caught Wang Cangyan, a local dealer who oversaw the shipment of dozens of Empress Dou's figurines to Hong Kong, sneaking them through customs checkpoints by hiding them inside a truckload of new ceramics. Wang told the Xi'an police the name of a Hong Kong shop to which he had sold 32 statuettes...
...that specialize in fakes, Hong Kong's Hollywood Road is a key Asian transit point for stolen Chinese antiquities. The rarest items are seldom displayed. "If someone walks in off the street and asks to see some real antiques, I'll probably show them fakes," says a Hollywood Road dealer who declines to be named. "But if they come in knowing exactly what they want and they know what the market rate is, I'll bring in the real things from my warehouse." In 2001, this dealer--who was busted a few years ago for selling an illicit item that...
Through a variety of mysterious circumstances, the drug gang, with Holmes’ willing or unwilling assistance, rob the house of Holmes’ other dealer, the millionaire club owner Eddie Nash, a role in which Eric Bogosian tries to top his cartoonish villain in Under Siege 2. Although he doesn’t quite achieve that formidable goal, he does create a sense of empathy for a truly terrible man, aided by his Scarface-like rise from immigrant to mob kingpin...