Wednesday, March 11, 2009

"Hit the Christie's" another Chinese slug at the French

Chinese netizens are reacting to last month's sale of two bronze Chinese artifacts, originally stolen from China in the 1800s, at the Parisian Christie's auction house.

Beijing petitioned Christie's not to sell the items and instead return them to China for free, but the private auction house refused and proceeded to sell the bronze rat and rabbit head.

However, the winning bidder Cai Mingchao is a Chinese national who works closely with an organization that recovers lost and stolen Chinese artifacts. Cai joined the auction to deliberately sabotage the sale, winning the items and then admitting he does not have the money, nor does he plan on ever having the money to pay for them. Read the Reuters article here.

Now a few HTML savvy Chinese have created an online game "Hit the Christie's," where latent angry netizens can hit a punching bag labeled Christie's in Chinese that appears to be hanging from the Eifle Tower. Hit the Christie's here

According Wall Street Journal blogger Juliet Ye, the Parisian auction house has been slugged more than 340,000 times.

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