Case for Repatriating China's Cultural Objects

This book investigates China''s demands for the repatriation of Chinese cultural relics ''lost'' during the country''s modern  history. It addresses two main research questions: Can the original owners, or their rightful successors, of cultural objects looted, stolen, or illicitly exported before the adoption of the 1954 Hague Convention and the 1970 UNESCO Convention reclaim their cultural object...