Meaning of the flag of China: Red is a traditional color in Chinese culture and also represents the communist revolution; the stars are yellow to represent the official color of the Manchu dynasty and to imply that China belongs to the Chinese people, a “yellow race”. The big star symboli...
The Kabuki uses more characters than the No, features much stage action as opposed to the stately, slow movement of the No, and avoids the use of recondite symbolism and allusion that frequently make the No a puzzle. The most popular play in the Kabuki repertoire is a revenge play entitled...
Eerie, artistic, and rich with symbolism, Marebito is unlike any other horror film. The film dives deeply into the alienation caused by modern communication technology. The cinematography combines the found footage approach with an overall traditional filming to undermine the audience's percept...
That time is an unstable, or rather destabilized, agent in both historical reckoning and speculative thinking is already part of a wider consensus. Tropes of quasi-primitive societies and religious symbolism have persistent visibility in the post-apocalyptic genre and other aspects of contemporary cult...
by Lily X. Yang Chinese Paper Cutting, one of my favorite types of traditional Chinese design, has been adapted to the digital creative processes to reflect the contemporary Chinese social environment. The form of Paper Cutting itself is distinctive for
Eerie, artistic, and rich with symbolism, Marebito is unlike any other horror film. The film dives deeply into the alienation caused by modern communication technology. The cinematography combines the found footage approach with an overall traditional filming to undermine the audience's percept...
There is, of course,a long history of tragic mixed Black characterssaddled with symbolism in American literature: Nella Larsen’s 1929 novelPassingfamously concerns a biracial woman’s doomed attempt to blend into white high society. The mixed Asian character, while a comparatively new phenomenon,...
Folktales Bunny God of Moon Festival in China Butterfly Lovers (梁山伯与祝英台) Xi Shi (西施) A Dream of Red Chambers(红楼梦) Symbolism in Chinese Paper Cutting (剪纸) Chang E & Hou Yi - Story of Mid-Autumn Festival(嫦娥,后羿) Symbolism in Chinese Folklore Legend of the White Snake...
Eerie, artistic, and rich with symbolism, Marebito is unlike any other horror film. The film dives deeply into the alienation caused by modern communication technology. The cinematography combines the found footage approach with an overall traditional filming to undermine the audience's percep...
The Selden Map Rediscovered: A Chinese Map of East Asian Shipping Routes, c.1619 La redécouverte de la carte de Selden: une carte chinoise des routes maritimes d'Asie orientale, datée de 1619 environ Die Wiederentdeckung der Selden-Karte: eine chinesische Karte der ostasiatischen Schiffsroute...