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Antique Trade in China
From National, page 14, issue 410, March 16, 2009
Original article: [Chinese]
The recent auction of two looted bronze sculptures from China has put the country's antique trade under the spotlight. An antique dealer who had once been been a tomb raider deciphered for the EO where antiques in the domestic market sourced from and were traded before the trade was legalized. He said the 1990s was the peak of unscrupulous digging and selling, but now the market was flooded with copycats.