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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...

"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...

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 men's high jump at the test competition for China's 14th National Games in Xi'an, Northwest China's Shaanxi province on April 28, 2021. [Photo/Xinhua] XI'AN, China - Wang Yu won the men's high jump at the test competition for China's 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 unbeate...

High jumper Wang Yu shows Olympic ambition at National Games test event Xinhua 29 Apr 2021, 02:06 GMT+10 XI'AN, China, April 28 (Xinhua) -- Wang Yu won the men's high jump at the test competition for China's 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 skip 2.29m and instead try 2.30m, but the 29-year-old failed to clear it. Wu Guobiao tied Wang ...

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 years later, this strange event served as the basis for director Cathy Yan’s first feature film, ...