The Compensations of Plunder: How China Lost Its Treasures (Silk Roads) by Justin M. Jacobs
English | August 14th, 2020 | ISBN: 022671201X, 022671196X | 352 pages | True EPUB | 20.17 MB
From the 1790s until World War I, Western museums filled their shelves with art and antiquities from around the world. These objects are now widely regarded as stolen from their countries of origin, and demands for their repatriation grow louder by the day.