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The great Chinese art heist : imperialism, organized crime, and the hidden story of China's stolen artistic treasures

Pezzullo, Ralph, author

2025

Overview

\"For the past decade, the art world has been rocked by a series of very costly and elaborately planned heists at major museums. It all began the night of August 6, 2010, at the Drottningholm Palace in Stockholm, Sweden--the official residence of the Swedish royal family. Heists in France, Great Britain, and throughout Europe soon followed. In Norway, masked men rappelled down from a glass ceiling into the prestigious Kode Museum, just three blocks from police headquarters. In all of these break-ins, the thieves made away with ancient Chinese artifacts. These priceless antiquities already had a dark backstory. They were first looted from the spectacular Old Summer Palace outside of Beijing nearly two centuries ago. In 'The great Chinese art heist,' bestselling author Ralph Pezzullo takes us back to the Second Opium War and the sacking of the Old Summer Palace by French and British troops in 1860. He then expertly connects that seismic event in Chinese history to the current wave of heists that seem right out of a 'Mission: Impossible' movie\"--Inside jacket flap.

• Publisher: Pegasus Crime
• Subject: Art thefts Europe 21st century. / Antiques China. / Art museums. / Art thefts. / Vol d'objets d'art. / Antiquités (Objets anciens) Chine. / Vol d'objets d'art Europe 21e siècle. / China History Foreign intervention, 1857-1861. / Chine Histoire 1857-1861 (Intervention étrangère)
• ISBN: 9781639369133, 1639369139

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
N8795.3.E85 P49 2025	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE