http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/art/2008/04/china_tibet.html

It's time to question our cultural rage for China

Isn't it a bit rich that China, with its human rights record, is being
so assiduously courted by so many British museums and galleries?

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April 10, 2008 8:00 AM | Printable version

A display from the British Museum's exhibition The First Emperor.
Photograph: Getty

It was meant to be the grand climax to a triumph of cultural
diplomacy. The last day of the British Museum's superb exhibition The
First Emperor, made possible by unprecedented loans from China,
coincided with the Olympic torch procession through London. The route
of the torch went right past the museum, in what was presumably a
calculated choice to show off Britain's cultural relationship with
China. From the First Emperor to the Beijing Olympics ... let's
celebrate two thousand years of authoritarian government!