Word: yuanmingyuan
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...executive Alice Cheng paid $19.4 million for a prized decorated bowl, shattering the previous world record for Qing dynasty porcelain. In late September, Macau gaming tycoon Stanley Ho spent $8.9 million on a bronze horse head looted by British and French troops from Beijing's old Summer Palace, or Yuanmingyuan, in 1860. He then donated the artwork, which fetched the highest price ever paid for Qing sculpture, to the Chinese state. "Bringing back all the things from the Summer Palace, it's a kind of revenge," says Chiu Che Bing, a Paris-based advisor on the restoration of the palace...
...Ching's way of putting it), many argue that the sales are not right, even if they are legal. "This issue is a moral issue," says Cindy Ho, founder of Saving Antiquities for Everyone, a U.S.-based nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving cultural heritage. "The Chinese zodiac animals from Yuanmingyuan ... need to be together on Chinese soil...
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