Video: The Burning of Yuan Ming Yuan – The restoration of the video before the Old Summer Palace burning and looting by the British and French armies is stunningly beautiful. 圓明園被英國和法國軍隊搶劫和燒毀前的視頻還原, 美得震撼.
There is a deep, unhealed historical wound in the UK’s relations with China – a wound that most British people know nothing about, but which causes China great pain. It stems from the destruction in 1860 of the country’s most beautiful palace.
It’s been described as China’s ground zero – a place that tells a story of cultural destruction that everyone in China knows about, but hardly anyone outside.
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Ownership, legality questions swirl around treasures looted from Old Summer Palace
More than 150 years after French and British troops sacked Beijing’s Old Summer Palace in 1860, relics that may have been taken from the site are showing up at foreign auction houses, prompting an outcry from China.
Many other items thought to have been taken from the palace, which is also known as Yuanmingyuan, are housed in museums and private collections around the world.
In recent years, Beijing has called for the return of such items and for them to be withdrawn from sale when listed by auction houses.
In the UK, items thought to have been looted are on display in several military museums, according to Louise Tythacott’s paper Trophies of War: Representing Summer Palace, Loot in Military Museums in the UK.
Johnson Choi Biz 