Artnet

A Video Series About a Teapot That Escapes the British Museum, Which Went Viral on Chinese Social Media, Has Landed a Film Deal

A series about a jade teapot that transforms into a woman and escapes the British Museum that went viral on the Chinese version of TikTok is now being adapted into an animated film. It is intended as ...
Hypebeast

British Museum Receives £1 Billion Donation of Rare Chinese Ceramics

The British Museum has received a private collection of Chinese ceramics estimated at approximately £1 billion GBP ($1.27 billion USD) — the highest-value object gift in UK museum history. Donated by ...
Artnet

A Writer Is Calling Out the British Museum for Using Her Translations of Chinese Poetry in an Exhibition Without Permission

London’s British Museum has removed two poems by the early-20th-century feminist revolutionary and poet Qiu Jin from view after Vancouver writer Yilin Wang accused the institution of reproducing her ...
CNN

British Museum apologizes after using translator’s work in China exhibition without pay or acknowledgment

When the British Museum launched its “China’s hidden century” exhibition last month, writer and translator Yilin Wang began getting confusing messages from her peers. The show, which featured 19th ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Chinese Paper Demands British Museum Return ‘Stolen’ Artifacts

Chinese state media has urged the UK’s most famous museum to return items “stolen” in past centuries, potentially widening a rift between the Asian nation and the West. “We formally request the ...