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[Archport] China: estudo e restauro dos materiais destruídos pelos exércitos da Inglaterra e França em Pequim (séc. XIX).

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Subject :   [Archport] China: estudo e restauro dos materiais destruídos pelos exércitos da Inglaterra e França em Pequim (séc. XIX).
From :   Francisco Lemos <sandelemos@gmail.com>
Date :   Mon, 23 Aug 2010 13:13:21 +0100

Piece by piece, China reconstructs treasures destroyed by British troops

Almost 150 years after British and French troops looted and destroyed the Old Summer Palace in Beijing, Chinese archaeologists are painstakingly patching together treasured historical artefacts excavated from the ruins.

 
Pan Ting-ting, 21, one of 500 graduate volunteers at Beijing Old Summer Palace
Pan Ting-ting, 21, one of 500 graduate volunteers at Beijing Old Summer Palace who are working to piece back together 30,000 fragments of Qing Dynasty porcelain excavated from the ruins of the Old Summer Palace Photo: PETER FOSTER

Archaeology students are piecing together thousands of fragments of Qing Dynasty porcelain that have been excavated over the past 30 years from what is known in China as the “Gardens of Perfect Brightness”.

“On a good day, we manage to reconnect about 20 pieces of the porcelain,” says Pan Ting-ting, one of the student volunteers.

The team has been working on pieces of vases, bowls and plates depicting twirling dragons and weeping willows. These represent only a small portion of the 30,000 recovered pieces.

The 150th anniversary of the destruction of the Old Summer Palace during the Second Opium War will be marked in October.

The punitive action, ordered by Lord Elgin in retaliation for the torture and execution of 18 foreign emissaries by the Chinese court, still rankles in China. Thousands of imperial treasures looted from the palace still reside in the museums of London and Paris and even the officers’ messes of the British Army.

Last year, China launched a mission to inspect up to 1.5 million artefacts which it believes are in museums and collections across Europe and America, including the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

Pan, like most Chinese, would like to see such items returned, even though she knows this is unlikely. “This is our history, and the foreign museums should give the items back,” she insisted.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/7958771/Piece-by-piece-China-reconstructs-treasures-destroyed-by-British-troops.html


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