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5 APLPJ 62 (2004)
Sir, How Much Is That Ming Vase in the Window?: Protecting Cultural Relics in the People's Republic of China

handle is hein.journals/aplpj5 and id is 68 raw text is: SIR, How MUCH IS THAT MING VASE IN THE WINDOW?:
Protecting Cultural Relics in the People's Republic of China
MICHAEL L. DUTRA*
I.    INTRODUCTION
II.    CULTURAL PROPERTY IN A SHRINKING WORLD
A.     What is Cultural Property?
B.     The Global Black Market for Antiquities
C.     Cultural Property in China
D.     The Challenge of Protecting Chinese Cultural
Property
III.   THE INTERNATIONAL LEGAL REGIME TO PROTECT CULTURAL
PROPERTY
A.     1970 UNESCO Convention
B.     UNIDROIT Convention
IV.    CHINA'S LEGAL REGIME FOR CULTURAL PROPERTY: KEEPING
THE DRAGON IN THE Box
A.     China's Regulation of Cultural Properly
B.     The 2002 Law Protecting Cultural Relics
C.     The 1997 Criminal Law and Cultural Property
V.     MAKING   THE FUTURE    SAFE FOR   CHINA'S CULTURAL
TREASURES
A.    Educational Programs
B.    Incentive Programs
C.    Reducing Government Regulation of the Legal Relics
Market
D.     State-Sponsored Auctions
VI.    CONCLUSION
Associate, White & Case LLP, New York; J.D., 2003, cum laude,
Georgetown University Law Center; B.A. International Relations & Pblitical Science,
2000, summa cum laude, University of Southern California. I would like to thank
Professor James Feinerman for his suggestions and comments and Jacqueline Tully for
her patience.