Foreign Devils on the Silk Road: The Search for the Lost Cities and Treasures of Chinese Central Asia [by Peter Hopkirk, Reprint Edition, Paperback]

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Having done Central Asia, the book was the "bible" in knowing the intimate details needed to not only do business in the post-Soviet era, but just in being able to discuss and move within the people where many thousands could not even bring voice to such concepts in the old days, which today are only "chatted" about in remote areas...

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The stolen artifacts are China's patrimony, much like the Magna Carta for Britain, Russian Icons, Martin Luther's writings for Germany, The Bordeaux tapestry for France and the manuscript of the Genji Monogatari for Japan, they are the essence of a nation' cultural heritage and should not be plundered and stashed away in foreign museums...

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A fascinating account of the plundering of art objects from the Silk Road...

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Hopkirk rips at the fabric of humanity in what the west thinks is proper and what is reality in an eastern environment with its many passionate, intelligent, warm, and emotionally infectious people...

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