Display offers rare insight into life in China

MANCHESTER, United Kingdom - Dressed in a red-and-black tight shirt and dark skinny jeans with a pair of Dr Marten's boots and wearing a pair of Harry Potter-style glasses, the curly haired Stephen Welsh looks like a member of a boy band.

But the 29-year-old is actually Manchester Museum's curator of living culture and also a person who has always been enthusiastic about Chinese culture and history despite not getting a chance to study it at the university where he turned to Mediterranean archaeology instead.

Years after graduation, his China dream was finally fulfilled at work when his museum started a nine-month exhibition of Chinese historical and cultural relics named China: Journey to the East.