Plunder and Preservation: Cultural Property Law and Practice in the People's Republic of China

In recent years, a lucrative international market has developed for antiquities and art of historical and cultural value brought out of china. This book examines Chinese law and practice regarding the protection and trade of cultural property. The author, a lecturer on the Faculty of Law at the University of Hong Kong, argues persuasively that China's restrictive laws governing the export of antiquities, combined with the current economic climate in the country, serve to foster the illicit trading that has been fed by tomb-robbing and museum thefts on a massive scale. This is the first book to present and explain systematically and clearly China's cultural property laws and the first to discuss the legal and international market implications of China's attitudes and practice toward cultural property. It will be a necessary reference for museum curators and administrators, lawyers engaged in cultural property disputes, and collectors of art and antiquities worldwide.Murphy, J. David is the author of 'Plunder and Preservation: Cultural Property Law and Practice in the People's Republic of China', published 1995 under ISBN 9780195868746 and ISBN 0195868749.