The Daoqing Play is a folk operetta popular in the Yellow River Valley. It originated from the chanting of Taoist scriptures in the Tang Dynasty, and developed into the folk art form of Daoqing dagu in the Song Dynasty in which singing ...
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Ningxia is located on the upper and middle reaches of the Yellow River in western China. It is known for its lush fields and also for being beyond the Great Wall. The local culture of Ningxia developed through the assimilation of the ...
Nowadays in Shanghai, you can hear a great variety of music and operas from all over the world, such as the traditional Beijing Opera and Kunqu Opera, the rhythmic and dynamic hip-hop, the elegant and melancholy Jazz or Blues, etc. While ...
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has proposed a rule to develop a new unique device identification (UDI) system in response to legislation passed by Congress in June 2012. The FDA has worked closely with industry, the clinical ...
Microsoft started accepting on Wednesday requests for access to the Windows Phone SDK 8.0 Developer Preview programme, the company said in a blog post. To apply, developers can go to the Microsoft Connect site, and the deadline is Sept. ...
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A former Apple executive has spoken about his twenty years at the company, and has given his perspective of what CEO Tim Cook is like to work for. David Sobotta was a sales executive at Apple from 1984 to 2004, and, though he ...
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The European Commission yesterday passed a new rule that will force European Union member states to open up the 2GHz band for 4G technologies. The decision will add another 120MHz to the radio spectrum available for 4G technologies, ...
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According to Karl-Heinz Streibich, CEO of software tools company Software AG, the time for big IT transformation is over. People no longer buy exciting IT. Rather, IT must compete for investment. The question is, where will this investment ...
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The first wave of devices running BlackBerry 10, Research In Motion’s new smartphone operating system, have entered carrier certification labs around the world, the company has announced. The lab entry allows cellular carriers to ...
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Pipa Ge or lute ballad, a kind of folk songs of Dong minority in China that has been passed down from generation to generation, was listed in the directory of China's intangible cultural heritages in 2006. Pipa Ge is prevailing in the ...
Diodes, in general, are made of very thin layers of semiconductor material; one layer will have an excess of electrons, while the next will have a deficit of electrons. This difference causes electrons to move from one layer to another, ...
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British American Tobacco (BAT) has commenced legal proceedings against the Australian government over the country's world-first plan to exclude all marketing text and images from cigarette packs. The company said it started the proceedings ...
Naxi ancient music is a type of folk music unique to the Naxi people in Lijiang area of Yunnan Province. The music is composed of three styles: Baisha Fine Music, Dongjing Music and Huangjing music, but Huangjing music has been lost. Naxi ...
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ET reported that the Bombay High Court has asked billionaire Mr Anil Agarwal controlled Vedanta Aluminum to deposit a security amount of INR 187 crore with the court till the arbitration proceedings reach a definitive conclusion based on a ...
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King Yalu is the first heroic epic of the Miao ethnic group in history. Usually sung and chanted in the funeral of the Miao people, the epic has been passed down orally, without word record. It tells about the origin of the Miao ethnic ...