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Monday, March 2
March 2, 2009

Chinese art collector Cai Mingchao was the winning bidder at the Christie’s auction of two bronze animal heads taken from Beijing’s Summer Palace in the nineteenth century, but he refuses to pay for them. “I think any Chinese person would have stood up at that moment. It was just that the opportunity came to me. […]

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