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A viral web series featuring a jade teapot's daring escape from the British Museum is being adapted into a movie. About the series: "Escape from the British Museum," a popular series on Douyin, follows the teapot — a Chinese cultural relic — that magically transforms into a woman. With the help of a journalist, it attempts to flee the British Museum and find a way back to its homeland.

A series about a teapot escaping the British Museum and returning home went viral on Chinese Tiktok, and will now be made into a film.

Series with 370m views echoes Chinese state media calls for return of cultural relics