"YOUR PHOTOGRAPHS ARE AS DAZZLING AS YOUR SUBJECTS"

Monday, March 19, 2012

FORBIDDEN CITY ART THIEF SENTENCED TO THIRTEEN YEARS


SHANDONG FARMER
SHI BAIKUI
SAW A TARGET OF
OPPORTUNITY
Beijing, May 2011
Sentence Reported Today


ENTERING INTO THE FORBIDDEN CITY
BEIJING 1981

For the details of the story of the twenty-seven-year-old Shi Baikui's "spur-of-the-moment" robbery of nine art objects from the Palace Museum, an account which plays up the cock-eyed sounding elements of the theft (and the "lenient" thirteen years plus a fine sentence), see here.

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