Julia Child was able to remember the single most decisive moment in her life with photographic clarity. It was her first bite of her first meal in France, a fish dish called Sole Meuniere. That first forkful, she wrote, was "a morsel of perfection," and it set her on the path to become the Julia we'd come to know and love.
Dansaekhwa, a low-profile South Korean art genre, will be presented in Shanghai this fall. Deng Zhangyu reports in Seoul.
WASHINGTON - "I could get on a plane and fly to China tomorrow," Monika Hoffarth-Zelloe says, as she marvels at photos on display at a community college in the US state of Virginia.
MORON, Cuba - Lack of money has not kept Remigio Hernandez from making striking art. Without formal training or access to supplies, the Cuban artist has still managed to turn his ramshackle home into a museum featuring sculptures made from scraps of aluminum, busts molded from mud and portraits daubed onto discarded television sets.
It was perhaps a twist of fate. In 1986, when representatives of the Shanghai Drama School came to the metropolis' Qingpu district to recruit new students, Zhang Jun, then age 12, took the exam.
Classical pianist Chiang Tien-lin can be easily mistaken for a rock star with his ear piercings and tattoos.
KIEV - Singing the Chinese folk song Jasmine Blossom, doing a traditional Chinese dance and performing a Chinese wedding ceremony, Ukrainian college students share their understanding of Chinese culture during a theatrical performance.
The Land Down Under is set to significantly up the number of Chinese visitors since the China-Australia Year of Tourism began on Feb 5.
Beijing will stage a series of performances to enhance visitors' experiences in the capital.
Was it chance or was it fate? The boy was just 4 years old and what delighted him most were his Shaolin training classes.
NEW YORK - His small workshop in a friend's house in industrial Brooklyn is a far cry from the glass skyscraper on Madison Avenue where he worked as an investment banker. But Eric Steffen is happy.
MILAN, Italy - The curtain went up on Milan's fashion week on Wednesday with Gucci's enchanted garden-inspired looks and Fay's 1990s rock-chick styles paraded for the womenswear autumn and winter 2017/18 season.
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