{"id":58560,"date":"2023-09-20T23:21:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T14:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/20\/viral-douyin-series-chinese-teapot-escaping-british-museum-film"},"modified":"2023-09-20T23:21:02","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T14:21:02","slug":"viral-series-about-chinese-teapot-escaping-from-british-museum-to-become-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=58560","title":{"rendered":"Viral series about Chinese teapot escaping from British Museum to become film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Series with 370m views echoes Chinese state media calls for return of cultural relics<\/p>\n<p>A viral series on the Chinese version of TikTok about a jade teapot that turns into a woman and escapes from the British Museum is to be adapted into an animated film.<\/p>\n<p>The plot of <em>Escape from the British Museum<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@EscapeBM\">a series<\/a> made by two social media influencers, echoes Chinese state media calls for the British government to make amends for \u201chistorical sins\u201d and return Chinese cultural relics.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/20\/viral-douyin-series-chinese-teapot-escaping-british-museum-film\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Series with 370m views echoes Chinese state media calls for return of cultural relicsA viral series on the Chinese version of TikTok about a jade teapot that turns into a woman and escapes from the British Museum is to be adapted into an animated film&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3580,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,210,50,71,236,69,235,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-british-museum","category-china","category-culture","category-digital-media","category-film","category-social-media","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58561,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58560\/revisions\/58561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}