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Dream within a Dream: 50 Treasure Hunts at the National Palace Museum, Taipei
Tour the National Palace Museum without leaving home
Completed · 56 episodes
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Luo Yijun: I Was Utterly Entranced, Bewildered, and Desperate for More Leung Man-tao: Cultural Artifacts Can Heal Us Jiang Song: A Lifetime Is Not Enough to See All the National Palace Museum's Treasures Zheng Ying: I Want to Place Them in Your Cabinet of Curiosities 01. Song · Plain Ru-Ware Narcissus Basin | How Can Imperfection Become Beauty? 02. Song · Su Dongpo's Cold Food Observance | Why Did Su Dongpo Not Collapse? 03. Han · Jade Dancer Pendant | If “Decadent Music” Was So Beautiful, Why Reject It? 04. Song · Fan Kuan's Travelers among Mountains and Streams | How Does “Pictorial Meaning” Arise? 05. Tang · Painted Gray-Pottery Court Lady | Did Tang Beauty Really Mean “The Fatter, the Better”? 06. Song · Ding-Ware Child-Shaped Pillow | How Did Population Policy Shape Art? 07. Song · Jian-Ware Hare's-Fur Bowl | How Did Song Teaware Become a Japanese National Treasure? 08. Southern Song · Guan-Ware Celadon Vessel | What Are a “Purple Rim and Iron Foot”? 09. Song · Anonymous, A Song Scholar's Studio | What Was Literati Life Like a Thousand Years Ago? 10. Western Zhou · Mao Gong Ding | Could You Cook Hot Pot in It? 11. Tang · Anonymous, Palace Concert | Did Tang People Love Parties Too? 12. Tang · Anonymous, Emperor Minghuang's Journey to Shu | Li Longji, What Were You Thinking? 13. Tang · Yan Zhenqing's Draft of a Requiem to My Nephew | “Who Brought This Poison and Ruin upon You?” 14. Qing · Curio Box | How Many Treasures Fit in One Small Box? 15. Ming · Chenghua Chicken Cup | How Could Beauty Worth a Fortune Arise by Chance? 16. Qing · Kangxi Enamel Porcelain | How Far Can an Emperor's Curiosity Take Us? 17. Qing · Yongzheng Enamel Porcelain | How Much Labor Created This Golden Radiance? (Part 1) 18. Qing · Yongzheng Enamel Porcelain | How Much Labor Created This Golden Radiance? (Part 2) 19. Qing · Qianlong Enamel Porcelain | How Was “Rustic Kitsch” Born? 20. Qing · Portraits from Nanxun Hall | How Does Authority Reveal Itself in Details? 21. Song · Portraits of Emperor Renzong and His Empress | Was Renzong Obsessed with Looks? 22. Song · Guo Xi's Early Spring | Can Grandeur Also Be Graceful? 23. Tang · Sea-Beast and Grape Mirror | What Exactly Is a Suanni? 24. Five Dynasties · Anonymous, Deer in an Autumn Grove | Why Put a Screen in a Room? 25. Southern Song · Li Song's Knickknack Peddler and Children | How Many Jobs Did a Song Peddler Do? 26. Neolithic · Jade Cong | Who Could Use This Conduit to Heaven? 27. Han · Tall-Stemmed Jade Cup | Who Would Not Want to Ride the Clouds and Dance with Immortals? Bonus | Idealist Youth Dialogue: I Want to Do Everything Except the “Proper Thing” 28. Qing · Jadeite Cabbage | Why Can Flawed Jade Still Stir the Soul? (Part 1) 29. Qing · Jadeite Cabbage | Why Can Flawed Jade Still Stir the Soul? (Part 2) 30. Yuan · Zhao Mengfu's Autumn Colors on the Qiao and Hua Mountains | Why Did Qianlong Love It? 31. Yuan · Huang Gongwang's Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains | Can an Ideal Found at Fifty Still Be Realized? (Part 1) 32. Yuan · Huang Gongwang's Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains | Can an Ideal Found at Fifty Still Be Realized? (Part 2) 33. Yuan · Ni Zan's Rongxi Studio | Why Are There No People in His Landscapes? 34. Ming · Lacquerware | What Else about the Ming Deserves Lasting Remembrance? (Part 1) 35. Ming · Lacquerware | What Else about the Ming Deserves Lasting Remembrance? (Part 2) 36. Song · Kesi Tapestry | What Shade Is Northern Song Blue? 37. Southern Song · Small Landscapes | How Much Literary Learning Does a Painter Need? 38. Southern Song · Xia Gui's Pure and Remote View of Streams and Mountains | How Long Does It Take to “Tour” a Handscroll? 39. Qing · Snuff Bottles | How Delightful Is “Extremely Pleasing to Admire”? (Part 1) 40. Qing · Snuff Bottles | How Delightful Is “Extremely Pleasing to Admire”? (Part 2) 41. Ming · Qiu Ying's Spring Morning in the Han Palace | What Is an “Atypical” Painter? 42. Ming · The Four Masters of the Ming | How Was the “Professional Painter” Born? (Part 1) 43. Ming · The Four Masters of the Ming | How Was the “Professional Painter” Born? (Part 2) 44. Ming · The Wen Zhengming Family | How Happy Was Everyday Life in a Small World? 45. Ming–Qing · Tianxiang Qienan Aloeswood | How Valuable Can Incense Wood Be? (Part 1) 46. Ming–Qing · Tianxiang Qienan Aloeswood | How Valuable Can Incense Wood Be? (Part 2) 47. Qing · Tibetan Dragon Sutra | How Could Such Boundless Devotion Be Fulfilled? 48. Yuan · Wang Meng | How Did His Achievement Rival Zhao Mengfu's? 49. Jin · Wang Xizhi's Timely Clearing after Snowfall | Why Do His Words Still Feel Personal after a Millennium? (Part 1) 50. Jin · Wang Xizhi's Timely Clearing after Snowfall | Why Do His Words Still Feel Personal after a Millennium? (Part 2) Zheng Ying × Luo Yijun: From Dream of the Red Chamber to Sisters Who Make Waves, How Can We Find Calm amid “Vague Threats”? | World Book Day Bonus