Thinking On The Restitution Situation Of The Chinese Cultural Relics Lost Overseas

The Chinese nation has a long history, diligent and intelligent ancestors left uscountless treasures and cultural treasure. However, the special conditions of modernChina, several baptisms of war, theft and illegal smuggling in China led to culturalproperties lost overseas. Since1949,especially after the1980s, with the rapid growthof China’s increasing economic and people’s living standards, People graduallystrengthen awareness of cultural heritage protection, especially the loss of ourheritage to the world. Whether cultural properties lost overseas return to our countryor not and how to return is a problem placed before us.This paper made a thorough study on the status of China’s cultural relics lostoverseas and regression problems. Firstly, the paper describes the background andstatus of the cultural relics lost overseas, then gives a clear definition of cultural relicslost overseas, on that basis we give a further discussion on the way Firstly, the paperdescribes the background and status of the cultural relics lost overseas, then gives aclear definition of cultural relics lost overseas, on that basis we give a furtherdiscussion on the way、the current situation and the specific distribution of China’scultural relics lost overseas; Second, based on the basic of the necessity of therestitution of cultural relics lost overseas, we give a deep analysis of The way ofregression and legal issues involved in the return; Again, drawing on the success ofrecourse to foreign cultural experience which reveal to us, we analyzed the processof the return of cultural issues which must be noted; Finally, we give a further discusson the restitution of cultural relics lost overseas and discuss the direction of China’scultural regression in the further.