US EditionChina probes museum art theft claims that ‘make the Louvre thieves look dumb’
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On December 17th, news that the Ming Dynasty painting "Spring in Jiangnan" by Qiu Ying, housed in the Nanjing Museum, had entered the auction market came into the public eye, immediately thrusting the museum into the spotlight. Recently, a retired employee filed a formal complaint accusing former director Xu Huping of large-scale theft, presenting artifacts to various levels of government and smuggling cultural relics. Latest reports indicate th…
China Launches Probe Into Alleged Art-Theft Scheme at Nanjing Museum Involving a Former Director
Chinese officials have opened multiple investigations into allegations that staff at the state-run Nanjing Museum secretly removed cultural treasures from the collection and sold them on the open market—claims that have gone viral on social media and drawn comparisons to the recent Louvre heist. According to the South China Morning Post, the scandal surfaced after a 16th-century Ming dynasty painting, Spring in Jiangnan by Qiu Ying, appeared i…
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