Property News · May 27, 2025

Heritage items belong in their home country


If books are a window to the past, the recent return to China of a pair of silk manuscripts lifted a curtain that fell 79 years ago when they were illegally taken from the country before they ended up in a US museum.
Their return is a powerful reflection of how cultural exchange offers hope at a low point in China-US relations.
The two volumes of 2,300-year-old silk books – the earliest known in China – arrived in Beijing from the United States on May 18. The Zidanku Silk Manuscripts are the…

Source : South China Morning Post
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