Hit Chinese TikTok series stokes calls for British Museum to return artefacts

Escape from the British Museum tells the tale of a jade teapot becoming human and finding its way back to China. - SCREENGRAB FROM @ESCAPEBM/YOUTUBE

BEIJING (The Straits Times): A short video series about a jade teapot finding its way back to China has gone viral on the mainland, stoking calls for the British Museum to return its Chinese artefacts.

Titled Escape from the British Museum, the three-part series created by two Chinese influencers follows a homesick teapot as she assumes human form and attempts a jailbreak out of the UK’s most controversial museum.