Sharing a capital idea

The 20-year-old, who's in her junior year at Dartmouth College in the United States, has been working as an assistant Chinese-language teacher, introducing the origins of tea and kung fu, as well as exploring the many stories behind the poetry written during the Tang Dynasty (618-907).

In 2013, she joined her high school's archaeology club and received training with her peers at the museum, before working as a guide in the porcelain exhibition hall one afternoon a week.

Li found that she benefitted a great deal from her experience as a museum guide. And there has been no shortage of things for her to talk about with her foreign friends in the US, especially during their visits to museums and galleries.

"Museums like the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston have exquisite pieces of porcelain brought from China many years ago," Li says. "I'm able to share my knowledge of the relics I gained at the Capital Museum with my companions."