In terms of making an impression, three works at the entrance of 5 Colours Foundation's booth at the 2019 Art Chengdu International Art Fair could be described as impressionist.
It wasn't the presents the visitors brought with them, nor the time off classroom lessons that made the biggest impression among pupils at a rural primary school in southwestern Guizhou province.
HANGZHOU - More than 7,000 Chinese bookworms in the Yangtze River Delta region took part in this year's reading marathon, or "readathon", on May 25 to promote reading among the public.
NEW YORK - A book featuring the story of a Chinese entrepreneur made its debut at BookExpo America on May 29 as the annual gala of the publishing industry kicked off in New York City.
More than 700 students from 160 high schools and universities from countries and regions including Britain, Germany, Canada, Japan, Cambodia, Indonesia and China, participated in the 2019 Beijing International Model United Nations, held over May 23-26 by the China Foreign Affairs University.
The University of Sydney and Fudan University on May 25 signed a memorandum of understanding to form the Brain and Intelligence Science Alliance aimed at fostering greater levels of cooperation in data science, neuroscience and artificial intelligence.
For Wang Jin and Qi Haonan, two restorers of antique timepieces at the Palace Museum in Beijing, their months spent in quasi-seclusion in 2017 at a watchmaking studio in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, was a crucial period of exploration.
In 1972, David Bowie gave birth to arguably his most famous alter-ego, Ziggy Stardust - an androgynous alien with spiky tangerine hair, theatrical makeup and brightly-colored glam rock attire. An eponymous ode to the character appears on Bowie's album, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars, which was released that year.
Gu Zhenhong moved gracefully to the soothing traditional Chinese music onstage at a hotel in Jiangsu province's Suzhou in late May.
Visitors were fixated as Yeh Kuoyi swiftly twisted puzzle-like plastic pieces into different shapes at the Taiwan pavilion, during the 14th China Beijing International Cultural and Creative Industry Expo in late May.
In Paris, the Louvre Museum closed for a day last week because workers said the crowds were too big to handle. In the Himalayas, climbers at Mount Qomolangma are concerned that the peak has gotten too crowded, contributing to the highest death toll in years.
Silver was used as money in China for centuries during imperial times. An ongoing exhibition at Shanghai Museum, titled Silver in the History of Chinese Currency, which runs through July 28, tells the story of China's association with the metal.
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