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Authentic beauty Beijing Fine Art Academy has in its collection several works that are considered iconic in the depiction of Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, such as A Harvest of Delight in which late painter Huang Zhou drew a vivid harvest scene of singing and dancing. In September, resident painters of Beijing Fine Art Academy traveled to Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang, for …

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BJD demands revision of Polavaram project design

New Indian Express

BHUBANESWAR: The BJD on Thursday demanded that submergence levels due to the Polavaram dam project being implemented by the Andhra Pradesh government be reassessed and its design revised accordingly to prevent any adverse impact on Odisha. A delegation of BJD comprising Rajya Sabha members submitted a memorandum to chairperson of Central Water Commission Kushvinder Vohra at New Delhi and demanded …

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2 months ago

French School Takes Center Stage in Shanghai Exhibition

China Daily

Motherhood by Amedeo Modigliani is a new exhibition showcasing the Italian painter and sculptor's work in Shanghai. The exhibition features six original paintings from LaM's collection, marking the first time they are displayed in Asia. The paintings explore the connection between modern and contemporary art, with Modigliani's works questioning the canon of art history.

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2 months ago

French masterpieces frame the modern era

China Daily

Motherhood by Amedeo Modigliani. The LaM collection of modern art features the connection between three series — modern and contemporary art and Art Brut, or Raw Art, and a French school that produced art in the early 20th century that is crude, childlike and primitive. The exhibition at Bund One Art Museum is designed in chronological order, arranged in four …

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2 months, 1 week ago

Emerging Fashion Designer Collaborates with Tea Brand to Elevate New Chinese Style

China Daily

Emerging fashion designer Chen Anqi, in collaboration with tea brand Chagee, elevated the popularity of the new Chinese style through a cross-border fusion on the runway. The style blends traditional ethnic crafts and nomadic styles, representing beauty in sharing and exploring more nomadic and primitive elements.

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2 months, 1 week ago

Emerging Fashion Designer Collaborates with Tea Brand to Elevate New Chinese Style

China Daily

Emerging fashion designer Chen Anqi, in collaboration with tea brand Chagee, elevated the popularity of the new Chinese style through a cross-border fusion on the runway. The style blends traditional ethnic crafts and nomadic styles, representing beauty in sharing and exploring more nomadic and primitive elements.

Culture Art Fashion Design Shanghai

2 months, 1 week ago

Thrills & Chills: The Psychology of Fear : The Pulse

NPR

Thrills & Chills: The Psychology of Fear : The Pulse It's that time of year when we celebrate something we usually hate: fear. In its most primitive form, fear is about survival — so we can face or escape serious threats. In other settings — where there's no danger — fear can feel exhilarating or fun. The Pulse Thrills & …

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2 months, 1 week ago

Is life possible on a Jupiter moon? NASA goes to investigate

Raw Story

Is there anywhere else in our solar system that could support life? An imposing NASA probe is due to lift off on Monday on a five-and-a-half-year journey to Europa, one of Jupiter's many moons, to take the first detailed step toward finding out. The Europa Clipper mission will allow the US space agency to uncover new details about the moon, …

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2 months, 2 weeks ago

Drowned by hurricane, remote North Carolina towns now struggle for water

Raw Story

Nicole Crane, exhausted, tearful and unwashed after a week of searching for a neighbor swept away by the raging waters of Hurricane Helene, dreams of taking a shower. But she and the other 100,000 residents of the US town of Asheville, North Carolina are without fresh drinking water, forced to rely on bottled water -- or in some cases on …

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2 months, 3 weeks ago

Decoding Civilization: The Role of Code in Human Progress

Hindustan Times

The journey of human civilization has been marked by innovation, discovery, and the constant evolution of tools that shape our world. From the earliest human attempts to communicate and record information to the complex digital codes that power today’s technology, coding has played an essential role in human progress. The Rise of Modern Code: From the Industrial Revolution to the …

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2 months, 3 weeks ago

Colombian ambassador to China praises Guizhou's primitive Dong villages

China Daily

On September 27, the “Discover China Cultural Tour” of Guizhou for Diplomats in China·Guizhou Village Super League event visited Rongjiang county, Guizhou province. Seven ambassadors and 24 diplomats from 15 countries, including Argentina, Croatia, South Africa, Morocco, Mexico, Peru, and Cuba, visited Dali Dong village and the Yi Shan Handmade Life Studio in Rongjiang county, Guizhou province. Sergio Fausto Cabrera …

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3 months ago

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China Daily

Shimmers of bronze Around 19th century BC, China entered an age in which bronze ware played a significant role in the material and spiritual lives of society. The objects on show, used for ceremonial purposes, banquets and wars, display beautiful silhouettes, the imaginative power behind vibrant decorative patterns and well-developed smelting and sculpting techniques of the time. Xinjiang pottery The …

Xinjiang Macao Museum

3 months ago

Editorial: Executions of the conceivably innocent are no better than human sacrifice

LA Times

Robert Roberson, photographed through plexiglass at Texas Department of Justice Polunsky Unit in 2023, is scheduled to be executed next month for supposedly shaking his 2-year-old daughter to death. In the days before the child’s death, she was running a fever, and an emergency room doctor prescribed an antihistamine that can cause fatal respiratory distress in young children. Opinion Editorial: …

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

Haryana Polls: Congress Holds Meet For Seat-Sharing Talks With AAP, Kejriwal's Party Demanding 10 Seats

ABP News

Amid the seat-sharing talks with the Aam Aadmi Party, the Congress party held a meeting of the Central Election Committee for the upcoming assembly elections in Haryana. Party's national president Mallikarjun Kharge, LoP in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, General Secretary KC Venugopal, AICC in-charge of Haryana Deepak Babaria, LoP in State Assembly and former CM… pic.twitter.com/kQbJ2XkJiv — ANI September 3, …

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

Just Like That | English, and India's legacy of languages

Hindustan Times

Kenyan Nobel Laureate professor Wangari Maathai once told me that it was only the colonial rulers who truly understood the importance of a language. One set of five members wanted education in India to be based on what was then recognised as classical languages — Sanskrit, Persian and Arabic; the other five wanted elementary education to be in the “vernacular” …

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4 months, 2 weeks ago

Kaihua County

China Daily

chinadaily.com.cn| Updated :2024-08-09 Kaihua county borders Anhui, Jiangxi and Zhejiang provinces in East China. Kaihua features a good natural environment, green tea leaves, root carvings, and features weightlifting sports. Kaihua is the hometown of famous Longding tea leaves and among the top 10 counties in Zhejiang in the tea leaves industry. Kaihua Longding tea leaves have been exported to more …

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4 months, 2 weeks ago

Fossils suggest even smaller ‘hobbits’ roamed an Indonesian island 700,000 years ago

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Twenty years ago on an Indonesian island, scientists discovered fossils of an early human species that stood at about 3 1/2 feet tall — earning them the nickname “hobbits.” Now a new study suggests ancestors of the hobbits were even slightly shorter. Further analysis of a tiny arm bone fragment and teeth suggests the ancestors were a mere …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

Study on Chang'e 5 lunar sample unveils early moon crust building process

China Daily

BEIJING -- After studying a lunar sample brought back by the Chang'e 5 mission, a group of Chinese scientists proposed a continuous early crust development process on the moon, as opposed to the classical two-stage moon crust development model. The classical magma ocean model suggests that the first stage involves the flotation and aggregation of plagioclase during the cooling of …

Study Mantle Lunar Crust

4 months, 3 weeks ago

Life on Earth began 1.5 billion years earlier than previously thought

India Today

An international team of scientists has uncovered environmental evidence of the earliest experiments in the evolution of complex life on Earth. The team discovered evidence of a much earlier ecosystem in the Franceville Basin near Gabon on the Atlantic coast of Central Africa, dating back over 1.5 billion years earlier than previously thought. "The availability of phosphorus in the environment …

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5 months ago

MP: Primitive tribe Baigas, the guardian of millet crops

Deccan Chronicle

Bhopal: The unique farming practice by Baigas, a primitive tribe of India, has contributed immensely to the preservation of millet crops, billed as the future food grains of the world in view of climate change. The forest dwellers have developed the ‘most diversified farming system’ involving cultivation of no less than over four dozen millet crops, and pulses in their …

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5 months ago

How California’s weather — weird, wonderful, catastrophic — shapes the state and its people

LA Times

Book Review The California Sky Watcher: Understanding Weather Patterns and What Comes Next By William A. Selby Heyday Books: 384 pages, $30 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. William A. Selby’s comprehensive account of California’s varied meteorological phenomena, multitudinous microclimates and seasonal extremes, “The California …

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5 months, 2 weeks ago

Going back to the roots

China Daily

The Light of Civilization: Hongshan, Liangzhu, and Chinese Civilization proves a popular attraction for many visitors to the Shenyang Museum in Liaoning province. "That was a moment etched in time, as the clay head of a goddess that we had just unearthed lay before us, gazing skyward with a smile that seemed to invite conversation," says Guo, an honorary director …

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5 months, 2 weeks ago

Going back to the roots

China Daily

The Light of Civilization: Hongshan, Liangzhu, and Chinese Civilization proves a popular attraction for many visitors to the Shenyang Museum in Liaoning province. "That was a moment etched in time, as the clay head of a goddess that we had just unearthed lay before us, gazing skyward with a smile that seemed to invite conversation," says Guo, an honorary director …

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6 months ago

Qingdao's maritime musical enthralls crowds

China Daily

In recent years, Shinan district, Qingdao, Shandong, has been successfully blending culture and tourism by introducing an innovative immersive maritime epic musical called Seek the Dream of the Ocean. This show, inspired by Qingdao's marine culture and Chinese navigation history, premiered on Feb 24 at the Olympic Sailing Center theater and has garnered high praise. The maritime musical Seek the …

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BJD demands revision of Polavaram project design

French School Takes Center Stage in Shanghai Exhibition

French masterpieces frame the modern era

Emerging Fashion Designer Collaborates with Tea Brand to Elevate New Chinese Style

Emerging Fashion Designer Collaborates with Tea Brand to Elevate New Chinese Style

Thrills & Chills: The Psychology of Fear : The Pulse

Is life possible on a Jupiter moon? NASA goes to investigate

Drowned by hurricane, remote North Carolina towns now struggle for water

Decoding Civilization: The Role of Code in Human Progress

Colombian ambassador to China praises Guizhou's primitive Dong villages

What's on

Editorial: Executions of the conceivably innocent are no better than human sacrifice

Haryana Polls: Congress Holds Meet For Seat-Sharing Talks With AAP, Kejriwal's Party Demanding 10 Seats

Just Like That | English, and India's legacy of languages

Kaihua County

Fossils suggest even smaller ‘hobbits’ roamed an Indonesian island 700,000 years ago

Study on Chang'e 5 lunar sample unveils early moon crust building process

Life on Earth began 1.5 billion years earlier than previously thought

MP: Primitive tribe Baigas, the guardian of millet crops

How California’s weather — weird, wonderful, catastrophic — shapes the state and its people

Going back to the roots

Going back to the roots

Qingdao's maritime musical enthralls crowds