Message in a bottle: Beauty lasts forever

New renditions of 12 old masters - photographically remastered - have fascinated Chinese microblog users, Ren Jie reports

The allegorical bottle that Laura Hofstadter threw into the water has had an interesting journey, one that would have taken it up San Francisco Bay, under the Golden Gate Bridge, out into the Pacific Ocean and finally washing up ashore somewhere in China all these years later.

And unbeknownst to her until recently, the messages in that bottle have been making waves in the country where it landed, picked up on Sina Weibo, the country's microblogging network over the past few months.