Posted August 18, 2009

For more than 60 years the national treasures of China sat in storage deep below New York City in a subterranean bank vault. The man made a life for himself here in the US, and waited, and waited. He raised a family during that time.

            

A few years ago the call finally came, and the Chinese government asked him to return its national treasures, treasures that would fetch billions upon billions if sold on the market. To protect the treasures all this time they had been held in this man's name, and his name alone, so that no illegitimate Chinese government could reclaim them. 

            

He made plans to carefully pack and ship this incredible treasure trove, a royal collection of over 5000 years of Chinese arts, back to China. But when his family learned of these treasures - that they were stored in his name and were essentially his to do with as he wished, and that he planned to return every one to his homeland - they became angry. They wanted to keep the treasures for themselves. 

            

This honorable man, in whose hands were entrusted the accumulated treasures of many centuries, returned his country's national treasure to Beijing as instructed. His family here in the US disowned him. He lives today in China, an esteemed citizen of China on a government pension.

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