A growing number of stolen Chinese artifacts have been turning up in Japan, a trend Chinese archaeologists view “as a clear-cut example of a rampant global problem: the theft of cultural relics that are then given a false provenance and sold to private collectors and museums. The greatest number of such thefts occur in China, where farmers, construction workers and criminal gangs unearth thousands of relics, large and small, each year and quickly sell them to smugglers.” – New York Times
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MADE (UP) FOR TV?
The turmoil behind PBS’s “Antiques Roadshow” continues. Another episode of the show has been pulled because of questions about the authenticity of another appraisal that might have been staged. – Boston Herald 04/20/00