-- For Li Ling, Chair Professor of Humanities at Peking University and a leader in Chinese archaeology and paleography, the return of cultural relics is more than a national issue —-- its a window into the worlds unfinished history.
In this interview, Professor Li reflects on his decades-long journey with the Chu Silk Manuscripts —-- Chinas earliest silk texts —-- discovered in 1942 and scattered overseas for almost 80 years.
Although volumes II and III were recently returned to China from the United States, Li still wishes for the very first and most complete volume to be reunited with its equivalents in Changsha.