Return of the relics: China's push to reclaim its lost treasures

BEIJING - Proudly displayed on a stage at the National Museum of China late in March was a row of centuries-old Buddha heads and sculptures that had recently journeyed across the Taiwan Strait. They were among 30 artefacts, mostly believed to have been stolen from central China's Shanxi province, that had been donated to Beijing by a Buddhist association in Taiwan. This was the largest return of relics to mainland China from Taiwan in recent years, state media reported. And they are the latest in a series of lost artefacts to have found their way back to Beijing, as a…