A man who admitted to stealing rare historical Chinese manuscripts from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) library and replacing them with fake documents was sentenced by the US Department of Justice on Wednesday.

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.

A California man who swapped a library's 17th century Chinese manuscript for a fake was sentenced on Wednesday after admitting to stealing a major artwork.