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A New Account of Tales of the World

With crisp music, vibrant colours, and a brisk tempo, animator Che Meiyi deconstructs “The Night Revels of Han Xizai”, Gu Hongzhong‘s painting about the luxurious nightlife of a minister from the Tang Dynasty, reimagining a traditional tale from a modern perspective and posing the question: how would the ancients have partied in the present day?

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With crisp music, vibrant colours, and a brisk tempo, animator Che Meiyi deconstructs “The Night Revels of Han Xizai”, Gu Hongzhong‘s painting about the luxurious nightlife of a minister from the Tang Dynasty, reimagining a traditional tale from a modern perspective and posing the question: how would the ancients have partied in the present day?

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