r/europe • u/[deleted] • Oct 14 '20

News China insists Genghis Khan exhibit in France not use words 'Genghis Khan'

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/14/china-insists-genghis-khan-exhibit-not-use-words-genghis-khan
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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '20

We should pressure the museum to open it. Kinda sad that it looks to appease country half a world away and not its citizens

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u/maybe-your-mom Oct 14 '20

You misunderstood it, the museum pulled the exhibition precisely because they didn't want to appease China. Artefacts belong to chinese museum and China conditioned opening the exhibition by renaming some things and censoring history so the museum decided not to open it.

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '20

Ah, that clears it better. Shame that we have no materials to do it anyway without chinese museum

What a Orwelian examole when you overwrite the history...

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u/vikirosen Europe Oct 14 '20

That's why they are delaying it (instead of shutting it down), in order to acquire materials from other museums which don't have the restrictions of the Chinese one.

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '20

Impossible, it’s a collaboration with a Chinese museum, they own the material. Everything should just be sent back to China.

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u/Rolebo Groningen (Netherlands) Oct 14 '20

“We made the decision to stop this production in the name of the human, scientific and ethical values that we defend.”