LONDON - A late Picasso portrait of his paramour Jacqueline Roque is going up for auction for the first time, with an estimated price of up to $30 million, Christie's auction house said on Wednesday. Christie's will offer Femme accroupie (Jacqueline) - Crouching Woman (Jacqueline) - at a Nov 13 sale in New York.
Nearly two decades ago, Zhang Jiming was still a farmer in a village in Jinan, East China's Shandong province. He never thought he would do anything else except tend to his crops, or travel anywhere too far from his fields.
An 18-year-old genius left the world with a work that has had resonance for the past nine centuries. Indisputably, A Panorama of Rivers and Mountains, the only surviving work from Song Dynasty (960-1279) painter Wang Ximeng, is one of the most important in China's fine art history.
Zhao Mengfu (1254-1322), who was a Song Dynasty (960-1279) royal, made a controversial move to switch loyalties to the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368). But that is not his claim to fame.
When director Guan Hu announced that his latest movie, Ba Bai (Eight Hundred Heroes), will kick off shooting in Suzhou, Jiangsu province, on Saturday, he was with Hollywood talent working on it.
When Cao Yongkang from Shanghai Jiaotong University first visited an old street in Gyalze county of the Tibet autonomous region in 2013, he was thrilled.
BOSTON - A film chronicling the story of Boston Marathon bombing survivor Jeff Bauman premiered in the United States on Tuesday at the hospital where he and others who were injured in the 2013 deadly attack were treated. Dozens of people attended the screening of Stronger at the Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Boston.
For more than a decade, Chinese physicist Zhang Yuanbo has been hunting for 2-D material in our 3-D world.
EDINBURGH - Leading space scientists from Britain and China signed a partnership agreement early this month to promote and strengthen both sides' space education and space-culture activities.
WASHINGTON - Scientists have taken a big step toward developing practical applications for a type of lithium-ion battery that, unlike conventional ones, uses a water-salt solution as its electrolyte to prevent fire and explosion hazards, a study published on Sept 6 says.
TOKYO - "To pass on the war memories (to the younger generations) is the best way to preserve peace," says 64-year-old high-school history teacher Masami Yamada.
SYDNEY - Listening to happy music will generally improve your mood, but according to a new study released on Thursday, it can also help you function more creatively at work. The report found that creativity levels were higher for people who listened to "happy music" while completing divergent creativity tasks - tasks that have multiple possible solutions.
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