从1840年鸦片战争开始,到1949年中华人民共和国成立,西方人来到中国,从洞窟、宫殿和画商的密室里搜刮艺术珍品,盗走了雕塑、家具、瓷器、书画等大量国宝。西方“收藏家”们是如何在一百年间前赴后继地猎获中国珍宝,并最终极大地丰富了美国的博物馆馆藏?文物商贩、博物馆研究员和中西方的官员们为了这些国宝,又发生了怎样的竞争和纠葛?卡尔·梅耶此前是《纽约时报》一名社论作家,谢林·布莱萨克则是一名拥有艺术史学位的纪录片制片 From the Opium War of 1840 to the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, Westerners came to China to search art treasures from cellars in caves, palaces and art dealers, and stole a large number of national treasures such as sculpture, furniture, porcelain and calligraphy and painting. How the Western “collectors” won hunting China treasures one hundred years later and ultimately greatly enriched the U.S. museum collections? Again, for these treasures, relic traders, museum researchers and Western and Chinese officials happened again What kind of competition and disputes? Karl Mayer was an editorial writer of the New York Times, Schelling 布莱萨克 is a history of art history documentary film