COPYRIGHT
Some material on this site can be found easily in other sources; some is in locations difficult to access or is available only for a fee. I am collecting it together online in the Yuanmingyuan Artefact Index as a contribution to the reconstruction of this unique site and an information source freely accessible to everybody. The plunder of the Yuanmingyuan is a severe loss to Chinese cultural history and the Chinese people; a comprehensive public database of its collections will go some way towards public understanding of its collections. The goal of the YAI is to operate in tandem with research efforts elsewhere. Translation of the site into Chinese is underway.
Locating and collecting this data has required extensive resources and research on my part since 2008 and is now a part of my doctoral work at the University of Glasgow. If you plan to use material on this website that originally came from other places, such as 19th-century newspapers, I would appreciate your mentioning the Yuanmingyuan Artefact Index as a source thus: ‘Available online at: website name’, in addition to the original source. This will allow me to document the impact of my research for funding and academic purposes.
All information about the artefacts that came from institutional sources, such as dates or attributions produced by museums or auction houses, is credited to these sources. All of the British newspaper sources come from the British Newspaper Archive, available online at: http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk.
At the end of each web page readers will find the following copyright claim: ‘All material on this page, unless otherwise credited, was produced by Kate Hill, who asserts her authorship of the work. © Kate Hill, Yuanmingyuan Artefact Index, 2016.’
Please do not copy the work wholesale. If you plan to cite my material, please credit me thus: © Kate Hill, Yuanmingyuan Artefact Index, 2016.
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