Alice Han

You know, that looks exactly like cabbage, but it's completely made out of jade.

These sort of curiosities, I think, is a big focus in a lot of these museums.

And as you were talking, I was thinking about some of my favorite museums.

And interestingly enough, I find that in China, I see a lot more of these, although I would say in the UK, you do see this too.

These houses, former houses of famous people being turned into museums or memorials, as you say.

So one of my favorites is actually Song Qingling's house in Shanghai.

She's the former wife.

She was the former wife of the father of modern China, Dr. Sun Yat-sen.

And her house is really beautiful.

You get to see the interior of the space and how they lived while seeing China.

you know, the historical moments and chapters in her life.

You know, another museum that I really love is the Shanghai History Museum.

And apparently they've got a new qipao museum that's just come up.

So an exhibition dedicated to a very traditional Chinese style dress that was really popular from the 20s onwards and that you also see in the West.

Yeah, it's interesting to me how in the last few years, we've had an expansion of different types of museums beyond what we've been discussing, beyond just the historical and the curiosities, to some of these cultural elements that you're discussing, you know, planes and sex, you know, paper planes and sex and qipals.

But I want to bring it back to another point, which is

the party's role in history making.

But curious what you have to say about this, because certainly there is the more benign aspect of museums, but there also is more of an ideological aspect to it.

And I'm curious if you have thoughts on that.

I don't as of yet, but I do have some pieces that have been gifted to me.