Secretly Incredibly Fascinating - BONUS SHOW 165: "Two Extremely Prized Forms Of Cabbage Art"
This is the bonus show for Episode 165! (Cabbage)
Alex Schmidt and Katie Goldin explore the obviously incredibly fascinating topic of two beloved artworks: the high-art cabbage sculpture that's Taiwan's most prized museum possession, and the low-art 1980s mega-fad of Cabbage Patch Kids.
RESEARCH SOURCES:
In This Museum Full of Treasures, The Most Popular Attraction Is a Tiny Cabbage (Atlas Obscura)
National Palace Museum (Taiwan) digital upload of "Jadeite Cabbage With Insects"
‘Jadeite Cabbage,’ ‘Meat-shaped Stone’ to feature at Chiayi branch museum (Taipei Times)
Encyclopedia Britannica entry for the Guangxu Emperor (China)
Toy Time!: A Look Back At The Most-Beloved Toys Of Decades Past by Christopher Byrne
'Custody' fight over Cabbage Patch dolls (The Christian Science Monitor)
Vegetables: A Biography by Evelyne Bloch-Dano, translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan
SEE IT: The wild story of the Cabbage Patch Kid Riots of 1983 (Eyewitness News ABC7NY / YouTube)
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