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Royal miniatures

Friday 11 August 1995 23:02 BST
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Peking - A Chinese artist has succeeded in painting 100 emperors on a single human hair four centimetres long, the official Xinhua news agency said.

Ding Guixing, 42, created a special kind of oil colour, and used mouse fur for his brush and a man's white hair as the canvas. He painted with the aid of a microscope which magnifies 100 times. AP

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