Ruchir Sharma insists he likes to write for the intelligent, informed reader who wants to know how the real world works.
No matter how much you think you know about the Beatles, Mark Lewisohn probably knows more.
Marian Cannon Schlesinger, 104, can still recall what Beijing was like in the 1930s, when she visited China to see her sister, Wilma Cannon Fairbank, and brother-in-law, John King Fairbank.
Art auctions so far this year have generated several high prices for artworks from the Song (960-1279) and Yuan (1271-1368) dynasties, including Yuan official-painter Ren Renfa's color work Five Drunken Kings on Horses that grossed 303.6 million yuan ($44 million) on Dec 4.
Despite the Italian opera and the sound of water boiling in a teapot in the background, ceramic artist Bai Ming has an aura of quietness as he sits in his Beijing studio in front of a tea set. He's surrounded by his porcelain works, which range from elegant and thin vases to small and exquisite teacups.
The "houses" were crude shelters shaped out of rammed earth. Life was pretty simple back in the 6th millennium BC, but in those days the tribes of what is now Georgia were making the first strides toward modern agriculture, growing cereals and grapes.
The prospect of roasting a duck strikes many a home cook as a mountain too high, but I'm not sure why.
Last week, when Beninese fashion designer Sonia Damala saw a digital exhibition of frescoes from the Mogao Grottos at Artron Art Center in Guangdong province, she was impressed by the prevalence of digitization in Chinese museums.
One of Mexico City's most venerable museums on Friday invited the public to a game of jianzi, a traditional Chinese national sport known in English as Chinese hacky sack.
The dance company that legendary German choreographer Pina Bausch, who died in 2009, built into one of the world's most acclaimed is doing its utmost to foster her moving legacy.
Ren Liming is a urologist with the Second People's Hospital in Chengdu, Sichuan province. He was thrust into limelight when he posted a photo of a down jacket he just bought - with the eye-popping price tag of 10,000 yuan ($1,400).
One of William Shakespeare's most celebrated plays, Romeo and Juliet, was adapted into a musical by French composer Gerard Presgurvic in 2001.
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