A Revolutionary Discovery in China
As Beijing prepared to host the 2008 Olympics, a small drama was unfolding in Hong Kong. Two years earlier, middlemen had come into possession of a batch of waterlogged manuscripts that had been unearthed by tomb robbers in south-central China. The documents had been smuggled to Hong Kong and were lying in a vault, waiting for a buyer. Universities and museums around the Chinese world were interested but reluctant to buy. The documents were written on hundreds of...
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