文物是文明的载体,是一个民族历史悠远的见证。由于中国文物多是通过战乱、走私、盗窃等途径流失的,至今在海外留有多少中国文物,并无确切统计。如何促成文物回归,将它们完整地呈现给国家和民众,始终是致力于抢救流失海外文物的人士思索的问题。为制作本期“封面话题”,我们求 Cultural relics are the carrier of civilization and are the testimony of distant peoples in their history. Due to the fact that most of the Chinese relics are lost through such means as war, smuggling and theft, the number of Chinese relics left in China so far has no definite statistics. How to promote the return of cultural relics and present them to the country and the people in a complete way has always been a problem that people who are devoted to the rescue of those who have lost their overseas cultural relics are still thinking about it. For the current issue of “cover story”, we seek