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Man jailed for swapping rare Chinese manuscript with fake at UCLA

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Jeffrey Ying has been sentenced to one year in prison for stealing a rare 17th-century Chinese manuscript from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Ying used aliases to borrow valuable historical texts from the UCLA library, replacing them with sophisticated forgeries before traveling to China. The scheme was uncovered when UCLA's library system noticed several missing manuscripts, leading to an investigation that identified Ying and the discovery of dummy manuscripts at his hotel. AI

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Man jailed for swapping rare Chinese manuscript with fake at UCLA

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  1. SCMP — Tech TIER_1 English(EN) · Agence France-Presse ·

    US man Jeffrey Ying jailed for stealing rare Chinese manuscript from UCLA

    A California man who swapped a library’s 17th century Chinese manuscript for a fake was jailed for a year on Wednesday after admitting to stealing a major artwork. Jeffrey Ying used a number of aliases to gain access to classic works, some over 600 years old, at the library of th…

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