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09.08.17High Cost of China's Push for Unesco Heritage Sites
Financial Times
China is ranked second only to Italy in terms of number of world heritage sites. But it's come at a cost.
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10.13.15Japan May Halt Funds for UNESCO Over Nanjing Row With China
Reuters
Japan's military aggression before and during World War Two still haunts ties between Asia's two biggest economies.
The NYRB China Archive
04.07.12‘Worse Than the Cultural Revolution’
from New York Review of Books
Tian Qing may be China’s leading cultural heritage expert. A scholar of Buddhist musicology and the Chinese zither, or guqin, the sixty-four-year-old now heads the Chinese Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center, an institution set up by the...