Qualla: Jibaozhai Museum https://qualla.com/jibaozhai-museum en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:38 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Jibaozhai Museum https://qualla.com/jibaozhai-museum Jibaozhai Museum: Introduction https://qualla.com/jibaozhai-museum/ The vase was supposedly ancient. It bore cartoon characters from contemporary Chinese television. Another artifact, labeled as dating to 2700 BC, was inscribed with simplified Chinese characters -- a writing system that was not introduced until 1956. The Jibaozhai Museum in the village of Erpu, Jizhou, Hebei Province, housed 40,000 exhibits across twelve halls, all presented as genuine cultural relics and promoted as a 'patriotic education center.' It took a single blog post to bring the entire enterprise down.

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/w/d/j/jibaozhai-museum-wp/wwdj-jibaozhai-museum-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Jibaozhai Museum: Twelve Halls of Fiction https://qualla.com/jibaozhai-museum/ The museum was built in 2007 by Wang Zongquan, the local Communist Party chief, at a stated cost of 20 million yuan. The collection was displayed with the trappings of legitimacy: labeled exhibits, educational signage, organized galleries spanning twelve exhibition halls. The mus...

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/w/d/j/jibaozhai-museum-wp/wwdj-jibaozhai-museum-twelve-halls-of-fiction.mp3 0:06 2 full Jibaozhai Museum: The Blog Post That Toppled a Museum https://qualla.com/jibaozhai-museum/ On July 6, 2013, Ma Boyong -- a popular writer from Beijing known for his sharp eye and large social media following -- visited the Jibaozhai Museum. What he found was not so much a collection of fakes as a collection of absurdities. Artifacts alleged to be thousands of years old...

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/w/d/j/jibaozhai-museum-wp/wwdj-jibaozhai-museum-the-blog-post-that-toppled-a-museum.mp3 0:06 3 full Jibaozhai Museum: Fakes, Faith, and the Real Thing https://qualla.com/jibaozhai-museum/ The Jibaozhai scandal touched a nerve in China because it exploited something genuine: the country's deep reverence for its archaeological heritage. China has thousands of legitimate museums housing authentic artifacts spanning five millennia of civilization. The imperial examina...

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