해외로 반출된 중국문화재 반환에 관한 국제법률문제 고찰 －한국에의 시사점을 중심으로－

The current international legal situation presents great difficulties for China to recover its enormous amount of cultural Relics lost to foreign countries for various reasons in history. Pragmatic means to recover those relics make effective use of present international conventions and actively lead the establishment of new international rules. As an important source nation, China lost innumerable and valuable cultural treasures in history. More troubling is the fact that illicit movement of China cultural property is increasing rapidly nowadays. Therefore, it is necessary to explore how to recover illegally removed cultural property in history and nowadays in order to make lost cultural and national treasures back home as soon as possible. For China to recovery lost cultural property,measures to be taken mainly include international litigation, multilateral cooperation, bilateral agreement, buying-back or gift. Though each strategy has its own advantages, disadvantages inevitably exist.