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Roger Law and the Chinese Curiosities

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Roger Law explores some unexpected corners of China's rich and varied culture

Roger Law travels through China to find some unexpected corners of the country's rich and varied culture

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Roger Law and the Chinese Curiosities: Series 1

Roger Law and the Chinese Curiosities: Series 1: Episode 1

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Roger begins his tour of Chinese museums in Shanghai, with a visit to an opera museum.

Roger begins his tour in Shanghai with a visit to an opera museum, an unusual shoe museum in a private house, and a security museum.

In the first in the series, Roger Law travels to China to find out what has brought about museum fever. With new museums opening every month, he wants to know what the Chinese are displaying and why. He begins in Shanghai with a visit to an opera museum, a rather unusual shoe museum in a private house, and a security museum where all the guns of the city's gangsters are on display. It's certainly a whole new world of curiosities.

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Roger Law takes a tour of the new world of Chinese museums

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