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Evening Standard
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Robert Dex

Empress’s new clothes star in blockbuster British Museum exhibition

A lavish robe made for an empress will go on show alongside a working man’s humble straw cape in a landmark new exhibition about 19th century China at the British Museum.

About 300 experts from around the world have worked together over four years to put hundreds of objects on show at the museum.

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