Young entrepreneurs from China and Sweden had an opportunity to show their talent for technological innovation at the first Nobel Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition this month.
"Luxury is a necessity that begins where necessity ends," said Denis Morisset, a professor in international luxury brand management at ESSEC Business School, quoting Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel, at a fair for French luxury education in Beijing on Dec 9.
The Xiamen-born pianist Zhang Shengliang, better known by his stage name Niu Niu, a derivation of his childhood nickname Niuniu, first showed his music talent at the age of 3 by playing a piece from John Thompson's Easiest Piano Course, without anyone teaching him. And he held his first solo recital a few weeks after his sixth birthday, with a program including a Mozart piano sonata and a Chopin etude.
LOS ANGELES - There were cheers, gasps, droid photo opportunities, casino games and more than a few standing ovations at the jam-packed world premiere of Star Wars: The Last Jedi on Dec 9 in Los Angeles, which many are already praising online.
Mammals were largely creatures of the night until the dinosaurs were killed off by an asteroid some 66 million years ago, a new study finds.
"When you play the piano, you should not merely focus on playing it right and playing it fast. You need to present the music like telling a story, instead of letting the music 'playing' you."
Brazil is geographically very far from China. A flight from Beijing to Sao Paulo, including a stop in Europe, takes more than 25 hours. Despite that, the last two years have seen more art exchanges between the two BRICS members.
In 1991, Chinese artist Xu Bing held his first exhibition in the United States at the University of Wisconsin with his iconic large-scale installation Book from the Sky and Ghosts Pounding on the Wall.
The year of 1793 saw the first British diplomatic mission to China led by George Macartney (1737-1806), seeking to open trade routes with the Middle Kingdom.
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