Mar 2008 - May 2008 news of China’s Heritage and Archaeology

Race against time to save relics
Terracotta figures in Xi’an suffer slight damage
Historic, cultural relics to undergo repair work
China to investigate cultural relic damages in quake zones
Age-old heritage site victim of quake in SW China
Qianmen St. to be ready before Olympics
Temples stand the test of time
China’s Inner Mongolia undertakes most ambitious Great Wall survey, repair
Renovation of Sagya Monastery resumes in Tibet
Restoration plan to be drawn for China’s 800-year-old Buddhist rockcarving
Forbidden City facelift to finish in June
China launches largest ever Tibet cultural relic preservation
Building height limit “not enough” for Macao’s World Heritage site
Face-lift on Duobao Buddhist Pagoda completed
Architects urge permanant awning to protect Peking Man site
Expert: Ancient China cliff paintings face natural, human damage
World Bank grants $38.4 mln to China’s Silk Road heritage
Zhongshan Warship settled in Wuhan museum
Imperial treasure guards — the Liang family
China gives Australia fossils as gift
China selects top national museums
Zhaoling Tombs under setting sun
China’s largest dinosaur park to open
Relics returned to rightful place
Smuggled relics to be sent home
Imprinted bricks made in Han Dynasty unveiled
China releases list of ancient books for protection
Cultural roots need deeper protection
Beijing vice mayor proposes setting up Olympic museum
China offers more public cultural service
“Symbolic city” to help revive traditional values
China plans multi-billion dollar “culture symbolic city” to revive Confucianism
Ancient tea trees found in central China
Rebuilding opera’s famous chamber
Ancient Chinese sports shown in woodcut picture
Traditional operas blossom in Shanghai
First spring Confucius fete held in E China
Expert: Traditions of living Buddha reincarnation should be followed
Tibetan vocabulary grows as new terms find place in old tongue
Folk opera lacking at Young Singers’ Contest
Stage performance explores drum culture
News Feature: Tibetan ballad singer’s unchanged melody
Peking Opera enters campus
China’s biggest purple clay teapot completed
Giant silk embroidery artwork completed in Jiangsu
Dage added to list of intangible cultural heritage
China invests 236 mln yuan in protecting intangible cultural heritage
Archaeologists: Chinese porcelain likely originates in Zhejiang
Dried corpse spanning 445 years found in SE China
Imperial golden utensils highlight of HK auction
Chinese artist’s descendants get 1st compensation from publishers
News from Xinhua
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