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  2. History of Asian art - Wikipedia

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    Buddhist art originated in the Indian subcontinent in the centuries following the life of the historical Gautama Buddha in the 6th to 5th century BCE, before evolving through its contact with other cultures and its diffusion through the rest of Asia and the world. Buddhist art traveled with believers as the dharma spread, adapted, and evolved ...

  3. History of YouTube - Wikipedia

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    YouTube would give free access to its users, the more users, the more profit it can potentially make because it can in principle increase advertisement rates and will gain further interest of advertisers. [339] YouTube would sell its audience that it gains by free access to its advertising customers. [339]: 181

  4. Chinese paper folding - Wikipedia

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    Chinese paper folding, or zhezhi , is the art of paper folding that originated in medieval China. The work of 20th-century Japanese paper artist Akira Yoshizawa widely popularized the Japanese word origami; however, in China and other Chinese-speaking areas, the art is referred to by the Chinese name, zhezhi. Traditional Chinese paper folding ...

  5. Woodblock printing - Wikipedia

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    A few specimen of wood block printing, possibly called tarsh in Arabic, [34] have been excavated from a 10th-century context in Arabic Egypt. They were mostly used for prayers and amulets. The technique may have spread from China or been an independent invention, [35] but had very little impact and virtually disappeared at the end of the 14th ...

  6. Poster - Wikipedia

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    According to the French historian Max Gallo, "for over two hundred years, posters have been displayed in public places all over the world.Visually striking, they have been designed to attract the attention of passers-by, making us aware of a political viewpoint, enticing us to attend specific events, or encouraging us to purchase a particular product or service."

  7. History of printing - Wikipedia

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    Robert Curzon, 14th Baron Zouche (1810 – 1873) said that European and Chinese block books were so similar in every way that they must have originated in China. [58] The question of whether printing originated in Europe or China was raised in the early 16th century by a Portuguese poet, Garcia de Resende (1470 – 1536).

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  9. Big-character poster - Wikipedia

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    The poster was typically referred to as the first big-character poster written during the Cultural Revolution, but two days earlier two senior cadres in the Academy of Sciences' Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences (today's Chinese Academy of Social Sciences) already wrote a big-character poster against their directors.