"The Centennial Anniversary of the Loss of National Treasures" Author: Chang Qing / Huangshan Publishing House: Zhejiang Ancient Books Publishing House

This book is a compilation and introduction of the dispersal of Chinese cultural relics from the late 19th century to the early 20th century. After the Opium War, the West began to "hunt for treasure" in China, and many foreign explorers and antique dealers took away countless cultural relics from all over China. These national treasures have since been lost overseas and are difficult to return to their homeland. This book begins with "the first explorer of western China" - Sven Hedin, and is divided into eleven chapters to describe the exploration experiences of Sven Hedin, Stein, Pelliot, Otani Kozui and others in Lop Nur, Dunhuang, and Heishui City, as well as the many precious cultural relics they looted, including the Bezeklik Grottoes murals, Han Dynasty bamboo slips, Dunhuang documents, etc. The book is full of historical details that have been verified, and it is a sigh and commemoration of the century-old scattered Chinese cultural relics.

Chang Qing, Bachelor and Master of Archaeology from Peking University, PhD in Chinese Art History from the University of Kansas, USA, majoring in Chinese Grotto Temple Art. She has worked at the Longmen Grottoes Research Institute, the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and the Institute of Chinese Buddhist Culture. After 2000, she served as a postdoctoral lecturer and visiting professor at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, and other institutions, teaching Asian and Chinese art history, and served as a research curator at the Asian Art Museum in Dallas, Texas. Since 2018, she has been a professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Art of Sichuan University. She has published 12 monographs and more than 100 research papers in Chinese and English. Huang Shan, female, loves art, history and ancient languages. She graduated from Central Saint Martins College, University of the Arts London, UK, with a master's degree in 2021. Because of her interest in ancient artifacts and geopolitics, she continued to pursue a doctorate in the Department of History, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK. Her main research direction is the dissemination and circulation of artifacts among ancient Central Asian cultures.