Jianchuan Museum Cluster
Sprawling private museum complex holding a pig that survived weeks buried after an earthquake.
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This guide to the Jianchuan Museum Cluster in Chengdu follows Strong-Willed Pig, a farm pig buried for over a month after the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake and found alive on nothing but charcoal and rainwater. It traces how collector Fan Jianchuan took her in, the nickname he gave her, and the years she spent greeting visitors at the museum he built from Sichuan's twentieth century. Listen for how her keeper described her, in her last spring, before the guide reaches what she came to mean to people who never met her.
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