Hello officers and guests! I am a small owner of a tavern, today we come to talk about a movie - Warner's new film "The Great Chinese Art Robbery" that Warner has recently scheduled to produce
The film is a film about the theft of looted cultural relics in Europe during the "Yuanmingyuan Robbery", adapted from a 2018 GQ magazine article by Alex W. Palmer, focusing on the theft of Chinese cultural relics in several European museums such as Fontainebleau in previous years.
In 2016, the Chinese pipe of the Swedish Prince of Stockholm was stolen
The 2012 William The Concubine Museum in London and the Oriental Museum in Durham were stolen
In 2015, the French wind Dan white deer palace was stolen
In 2018, the Norwegian Bell and Cold Museum was stolen
The article is intended to analyze the theft of Chinese artifacts in European museums. But what's interesting is that the opening chapter directly begins to lead to conspiracy theories – it's so strange how China's great cultural relics have been continuously stolen from museums around the world.
The author said that the speed and scale of these theft cases should be targeted crimes, and these stolen cultural relics include the cultural relics of China's Yuanmingyuan that were plundered by Britain and France during the Opium War, so it is actually China that manipulates and implements this series of cultural relics theft cases behind them. No one knows who stole them now, and there are constantly cultural relics returning to China. In China, a new generation of plutocrats collected ancient works of art lost from the Old Summer Palace, while the museum side remained silent about the thefts, placing distrust of its security in a weak position. The article questions the role that the Chinese side may have played in the theft (many in the Chinese cultural and art circles interviewed questioned the claims after seeing the article's publication), and discussed who could own the art, history and culture, and led to China in many ways. It also calls the legitimate study in which China sent archaeologists to participate in the investigation of chinese artifacts scattered overseas as "hunting," an attempt to prepare in advance for large-scale theft. The author also emphasizes that China's tactical shift is evident, that China is no longer content to passively sit back and watch art return, and that it is no surprise that theft has begun throughout Europe. At the end of the article, the author also pretended to be sad and said that the theft of stolen cultural relics Chinese not realize that there was anything wrong. Other authors portray Chinese who seek out lost overseas cultural relics as sneaky thieves, satirizing them as ostentatious patriotism and labeling various people who have made efforts.
It is well known that the Yuanmingyuan Massacre was a national disaster, and in October 1856, Britain and France jointly launched the Second Opium War with the support of Tsarist Russia and the United States. On October 6, 1860, the Anglo-French army went around the northeastern suburbs of Beijing and directly attacked the Yuanmingyuan. In the evening, the invading army broke into the gate of the Grand Palace of the Yuanmingyuan. From the next day, officers and soldiers looted and vandalized. In order to force the Qing government to accept the peace terms as soon as possible, the Anglo-French army sacked the city for two days and then marched into the city.
Hugo wrote in 1861: "One day two robbers broke into the Yuanmingyuan, one looted and the other set fire to it. It seems that after victory, you can start stealing... Two winners, one stuffed with a fanny bag, which was visible, and the other filled with boxes. They walked back to Europe arm in arm and grinning. "The two robbers who will be punished by history, one is called France and the other is called English." These words represent the voice of millions of righteous people.
In 1900, the Eight-Power Alliance invaded and occupied Beijing, and the western suburbs of Zhuyuan were plundered again. This time, the Qing government had completely lost control of the Yuanmingyuan, and the bandits took advantage of the fire to loot, and the bandits were no longer satisfied with robbing wealth, they sawed off the buildings, pillars and piles of the wooden bridges in the garden, and pulled them down with large ropes, and the large and small trees in the garden were also indiscriminately cut down. At that time, the town of Qinghe was full of wood and busy with trade, while the garden was lined with charcoal factories, and the branches and roots of trees were all burned into charcoal. The buildings and ancient trees of the Yuanmingyuan were completely destroyed. At this point, the Yuanmingyuan catastrophe has become an eternal pain in the history of the nation.
Recently, Warner Bros. finalized a new film to prepare for the closure of the case called Chinese Art, to make a film of the article's fictitious speculation, which claimed that Chinese stole Chinese cultural relics. Warner Bros. also deliberately arranged a lineup of directors and screenwriters of All China Arts, written by Ouyang Wancheng (director of "Silicon Valley" and "Space Force") and Jessica Gao (director of "Female Hulk", "Rick and Morty"), and directed by Zhu Haowei (director of "Amazing Monster 2", "Picking Gold", "Special Forces 2").
Ouyang Wancheng and Jessica Gao
Zhu Haowei
Although they are no longer Chinese nationals, they have always been of Chinese descent. Once the film was released, their actions were to pour salt on the deepest wounds of the nation.
The Chinese Academy of History even issued an article angrily denouncing Warner Bros. This is the real thief shouting to catch the thief,
According to the statistics of the China Cultural Relics Association, since the founding of the People's Republic of China, China has promoted the return of more than 150,000 Chinese cultural relics through judicial cooperation, judicial litigation, consultation and donation, and rescue and collection. I also hope that in the future, we can broaden the channels for the recovery of cultural relics, deepen the sensitivity to the protection of cultural relics, and bring home more splendid Chinese cultures, and the road ahead is still heavy and long.
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