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Starting Tuesday, visitors to the National Museum of China in Beijing are going to have a rare chance to see the head of an ancient Buddha sculpture.
The head statue of Buddha Shakyamuni, carved during Northern Qi Dynasty (550-577 AD), originally belonging to Youju Temple in Hebei province was stolen in 1996.
This thrilling, wide-ranging exhibition maps the complex connections among European and Asian civilizations from A.D. 500 to 1000, tracing the flow of not only goods but also faiths, cultures and ...
Photo taken on July 24, 2021 shows a stone Buddha head of a statue, which belongs to Cave 8 of the Tianlong Mountain Grottoes, at the Tianlong Mountain Grottoes Museum in Taiyuan, north China's ...
‘China’s Hidden Century’, at London’s British Museum, uses a wide range of art and artefacts to tell the story of the volatile decades leading up to the end of the Qing dynasty, and of ...
A British trade minister and the country's defense chief are in Beijing this week. It marks the first visit in a decade by a head of the British military as U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer seeks ...
The catalogue to The Citi Exhibition: China’s Hidden Century, the packed new British Museum show, observes that estimates vary between 20 million and 70 million.
A call for the British Museum to return Chinese artefacts after the recent alleged theft of about 2,000 items is heating up social media in the country.
The British Museum is now fending off restitution demands from China, in addition to Greece, Ethiopia, and Nigeria.
When the British Museum launched its “China’s hidden century” exhibition last month, writer and translator Yilin Wang began getting confusing messages from her peers.
Chinese state media has urged the UK’s most famous museum to return items “stolen” in past centuries, potentially widening a rift between the Asian nation and the West.