Reality bites at the Hangzhou Museum

The Hangzhou Museum, founded in 2001, is home to over 10,000 cultural relics tracing East China’s rich history. It also hosted recently an episode of the reality show Running Man, a move that attracted online outrage for possibly putting the artefacts at risk. Running Man—or Benpaoba, Xiongdi in Mandarin—is a popular variety show on Zhejiang Television based on a Korean programme of the same name. An episode aired earlier this month featured celebrities and tabloid f