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Listen • 2:53 Album Leaf of Flowers and Insects, bequest of the Hofer Collection of the Arts of Asia, 1985.904.6 Our new cicada overlords have officially arrived. You might be using Cicada Safari to track Brood X, which appears to be slowly emerging from the earth in the U.S. all the way from Florida to Michigan. But cicadas are global citizens. In China, the critters have long been symbolically significant. "Cicadas are actually quite prominent in Chinese literature, art ...

"Cicadas are actually quite prominent in Chinese literature, art and culture," says Haiyan Lee, a professor of east Asian languages and cultures and of comparative literature at Stanford University. Theyre even part of military strategy, she adds. Among the legendary Thirty-Six Strategems, a collection of essays a little like The Art of War, is a maneuver called "Slough off the Cicadas Golden Shell." It refers to creating a decoy to escape from a stronger enemy. Wang Zhen, Ci...

High jumper Wang Yu shows Olympic ambition at National Games test event Xinhua | Updated: 2021-04-29 09:51 Share CLOSE Wang Yu is in action during the mens high jump at the test competition for Chinas 14th National Games in Xian, Northwest Chinas Shaanxi province on April 28, 2021. [Photo/Xinhua] XIAN, China - Wang Yu won the mens high jump at the test competition for Chinas 14th National Games here on Wednesday, with a jump of 2.24 meters. After d...

High jumper Wang Yu shows Olympic ambition at National Games test event Xinhua 29 Apr 2021, 02:06 GMT+10 XIAN, China, April 28 (Xinhua) -- Wang Yu won the mens high jump at the test competition for Chinas 14th National Games here on Wednesday, with a jump of 2.24 meters. After defeating his rivals, Wang told Xinhua that he would like to finish the season with an unbeaten record. Wang conquered 2.15m, 2.20m and 2.24m with perfect clearances. When none of his rivals cleared 2.24m, Wang chose to...

Dead Pigs, 2018(Film still) As Cathy Yan’s first feature film is released on MUBI, the director speaks to Kat Haylett about making and meaning of the movie February 10, 2021 In the spring of 2013, over 16,000 dead pigs were found floating in the Huangpu River in Shanghai. Quickly, this became a national – and then global – news story due to the bizarre nature of the incident – which was attributed to the growing reluctance of farmers to cover the rising cost of burying livestock. A few ...

12 Feb 2021 Last year, everybody wanted to know who Cathy Yan was. The DC Extended Universe had just been given a gutsy makeover with Harley Quinn’s solo outing Birds Of Prey, and Yan was the director to thank. She had made just one feature before — a fizzy social satire called Dead Pigs. Those lucky enough to catch the film at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival — where it premiered before being released in China — wouldn’t have been surprised by the high-octane success of Birds Of Pr...

Most American audiences know Cathy Yan for having directed last years anarchic supervillain(ess) caper Birds of Prey, but now theyll finally have a chance to catch up on her work leading up to Harley Quinns fantabulous emancipation. The filmmakers debut feature Dead Pigs, which premiered at Sundance in 2018 (where it won the World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Ensemble Acting), gets its global release on Friday, and EW can exclusively reveal the darkly funny indies trailer, above. "I...

Forum told cities need to be more resilient   20:49 UTC+8, 2020-12-31       0 Urban management experts say COVID-19 has been a test for all cities and only with resilience can people recover from the impact of 2020.   20:49 UTC+8, 2020-12-31       0 Wang Dezhong, president of the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, delivers a speech at ...

Ant Group Considers Holding Company to Ease Pressure from China Ant Group Considers Holding Company to Ease Pressure from China December 29, 2020 | by Samuel Nwite | In a bid to ease investors’ concern emanating from the recent antitrust probe on Alibaba and Ants Group by the Chinese government, the company is considering a holding company with regulations similar to banks. Bloomberg made the report citing sources. Alibaba and Ant have been at the center of antimonopoly inves...

The Straits Times Fintech giant could move units requiring a financial licence into the company, pending approval Regulators told Ant to devise a plan to overhaul its business, the latest step to rein in Mr Jack Mas online finance empire. PublishedDec 30, 2020, 5:00 am SGT https://str.sg/JRaX They can read the article in full after signing up for a free account. Share link: Or share via: Sign up or log in to read this article in full Sign up All done! This article is now fully available for you...