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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 and culture," says Haiyan Lee, a professor of east Asian languages and cultures and of comparative l...

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 and culture," says Haiyan Lee, a professor of east Asian languages and cultures and of comparative l...

"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. They're 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 Cicada's Golden Shell." It refers to creating a decoy to escape from a stronger enemy. Wang Zhen, Cicada on tree branch, Modern period, 1919, Fan mounted as album leaf, ink on gold-flecked paper, Gi...

This debut feature from the young Georgian writer-director Dea Kulumbegashvili is exceptional in many ways. This debut feature from the young Georgian writer-director Dea Kulumbegashvili is exceptional in many ways. It stands out not only for its hypnotic quality as a film that feels like that of an already formed auteur, as well as for the complex psychological portrait of its central female character, but also, rather more paradoxically, for the environment from which it has emerged. Always distinctive, the cinema of the small Caucasian nation of Georgia has usually been distinguis...

Venezuelan cinema survives despite the crisis The film industry in Venezuela has been able to withstand the blows of a country in decline . In Venezuela, despite the various vicissitudes, the cinema continues to find ways to stay on its feet and rebuild itself. Photo: Alexandra Henao LatinAmerican Post | Theoscar Mogollón González Listen to this article Without culture there is no valid identity. Cinema is an expression of art, and as art it plays a fundamental role within a society, whether or not it is in crisis: it criticizes, comments, opens its eyes and calls for reflection. It is pre...