British Museum’s richly decorated look at China’s final century of imperial rule

A huge map of the known world at the time opens an exhibition about China’s “hidden century”, but unlike any map you might have seen before as it shows country size by their importance, so China dominates and Europe is a small insignificant blob in the far corner.Over to the side, two easy to overlook documents can be seen as China’s own Rosetta Stone, being dictionaries written in multiple languages for a country that contains a large number of ethnic and cultural groups