For Yale, the venture provides a chance to extend the university's brand to fast-growing Asian markets and to help introduce the Western liberal-arts tradition to the region.

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He pursued two intertwined interests: military arts and western expansion.

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One 2011 Chinese martial-arts film with Western sensibilities is "Wu Xia, " from director Peter Chan, which Weinstein Co. signed for U.S. distribution at Cannes (so far there's just a Blu-ray with English subtitles available).

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In the visual arts, it is western-style hype that has recently caught the Polish imagination.

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The 20th-century flowering of Third World "folk arts" has been driven largely by Western demands, materials and technologies of production.

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Hi-Arts promotes arts and heritage in the Highlands, Moray, Northern Isles and Western Isles as well as Argyll.

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The textile arts recovered in the second half of the 19th century, however, when Western buyers developed a love for the art.

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