Jackie Chan hits out at relics shame
(02-26 18:06)
Kung fu movie star Jackie Chan Kong-sang has labeled Christie's auction of stolen Chinese bronzes ''shameful'' and said he is working on a new movie about the theft of cultural relics.
The Qing Dynasty bronze fountainheads looted in the 1860s are national treasures, he said, demanding they be returned.
He accused Western countries of stealing cultural relics from countries such as China, Egypt and Cambodia and yet insisting they were doing so only to preserve them.
''They remain looted items, no matter whom they were sold to. Whoever took it out [of China] is himself a thief,'' he fumed to reporters in Hong Kong.
''It was looting yesterday. It is still looting today.''
The action star said he is planning a movie about the search for and return of some of China's stolen national treasures from the palace. Filming is scheduled to start next year.
''But now we lost two more pieces. This made me really angry,'' he said.
Chan said he would have bid for the artefacts and returned them to Beijing had they not been so expensive. The relics sold for 15.7 million euros (HK$158.34 million) each.
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