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5 NEWSThanks to Rosamund Cantalamessa for passing on these two photographs she took on a recent tripto China. The first, taken in Beijing’s Summer Palace, mentions the ‘Hill of AccumulatedEmbroidery’. Is this the only hill in the world named after embroidery, I wonder?Below, a picture taken in Shanghai’s superb museum, shows clothing made entirely fromfish skin. I have seen similar costumes in St Petersburg’s Museum of Ethnography, but nothingquite so elegant as this, which originates from northern China, close to the border with Siberia.