Costume Collector with 500+ Chinese Opera Costumes from the 18th Century

Chinese opera costumes, a colorful tradition that has been lighting up the Chinese stage for centuries! This episode provides a rare chance to see the best of them through a collector’s decades long effort! Chen Shen, a photographic history scholar, is an avid collector of them. Thanks to his fascination with Peking Opera, he’s devoted the past 30 years to amassing a unique collection that now amounts to more than 500 separate pieces. Now he’s keen to share this unique collection with the general public, transforming a private passion into a shared cultural inheritance!