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A Chinese digital veteran is helping one of the world's busiest museums conduct business with smartphone apps, Wang Kaihao reports. Wang Kaihao

Fei Jun, 45, calls himself an "artist, designer and educator" in one of his online profiles. The tech-savvy associate professor of interactive media at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, is a key figure behind Palace Museum's recent smartphone app that allows virtual visitors to the museum, an understanding of ancient Chinese paintings.

Night Revels of Han Xizai, the app named after one such artwork, was launched last month in a bid to enhance interest of young Chinese in China's ancient culture. The painting titled, Night Revels of Han Xizai, was first created in the Southern Tang Dynasty (AD 937-975) that ruled what is today's southern and central China, and reflects how the highly placed government official Han Xizai tried to escape his home state when he realized the dynasty's end was near.