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Over 80 public figures tell museum’s director it would send a ‘powerful message’ on fossil fuel sponsorship

An anonymous artists worried about reprisal from the Myanmar government is also featured in the exhition.

The face of the British Museum’s big summer show, China’s Hidden Century, is that of an elderly woman wearing jade earrings, dressed in a blue robe with ornate gold embroidery decorating its collar.

‘There’s a discussion to share some of this stuff’ Khan told a Greek newspaper

Like any author, translators want to receive credit for their work instead of being treated as an afterthought

The British Museum has had to apologise after a translator’s words were used without permission. Writer and translator Yilin Wang shared on Twitter that their translations of work by the Chinese feminist poet Qiu Jin appeared in the museum’s exhibition, China’s Hidden Century, without consent.

The move comes amid a dispute over pay, pensions and jobs in the civil service

Exclusive: Yilin Wang claims she did not receive any credit for translations of Qiu Jin’s work in the China’s Hidden Century exhibition

In 1796, when the sixth emperor acceded, the Qing presided over a third of the world’s population and one of the most prosperous empires in history. In 1912, the 11th and last emperor abdicated, aged 12, ending 2,000 years of dynastic rule, and paving the way for the modern Chinese…

Letter: Melanie Winterbotham reflects on the loss of public access to knowledge and art when museums close due to lack of funding

Hidden from us, not them, this packed 100 years tells a complex story of profound and rapid change