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o! irony! china is outraged at unauthorized replicas!

The cultural heritage administration in Shaanxi province, home to the 2,000-year-old clay army, said it had been "outraged" because it had not sent any original terracotta warriors to Germany recently.

"All the items on show in Hamburg are reproductions," the administration said in a strongly worded statement on its Web site (www.wenwu.gov.cn).

"We were completely unaware of the exhibition. It is a very serious act of cheating the media and the public," the statement said, dismissing reports that the administration had been one of the sponsors.

The show should be immediately closed and the public told the truth to eliminate the "extremely negative impact" caused, it added.

"We will pursue legal liability against those who use reproduced items to hold exhibitions of Chinese artifacts."
from China slams German "warriors" show as fake from Reuters
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