See Also
- Second Opium War and section Burning of the Summer Palaces
- James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin
- Haiyantang
- Looting
- Four olds
- CZ12 - Jackie Chan film in which the statues are integral part of the plot.
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“To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is the merest decency. But it is from the far more difficult achievement of seeing ourselves amongst others, as a local example of the forms human life has locally taken, a case among cases, a world among worlds, that the largeness of mind, without which objectivity is self- congratulation and tolerance a sham, comes.”
—Clifford Geertz (b. 1926)