The first Marvel solo-feature about an Asian American superhero, “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings,” which hits Disney+ on Friday, is an origin story that introduces plenty of new characters ...
Dragons, double-headed rats and blood-drinking sword-wielding tigers; Black Myth: Wukong is filled with fantastical creatures, known as Yaoguai, who have their origin in Chinese Mythology, and ...
The only mythical creature in the Chinese zodiac, the dragon has long been associated with prosperity and imperial power Catherine Duncan - Staff Contributor Long before it was imbued with symbolic ...
In Chinese culture, the snake seems to have an intricate relationship with the dragon, a symbolic emblem of the nation. Sometimes they could not be differentiated from each other, in other times ...
A still image from "Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore" shows protagonist Newt Scamander holding a deer-like baby Qilin. [Image courtesy of WarnerMedia in China] The Qilin, a legendary ...
HONG KONG (SCMP): The snake may be less celebrated in Chinese culture than, say, the dragon – the coming Year of the Snake does not have quite the same ring to it as the Year of the Dragon. But the ...
Some of the wildest legends may actually be rooted in reality. Ancient people didn’t have science textbooks, just bones in the dirt and stories passed around the fire, and sometimes, those stories ...
China Daily’s Wang Xiaodong profiles 62-year-old Hubei native Li Guohua and his more than thirty-year pursuit of the Chinese bigfoot: He can’t recall how many times he almost lost his life to ...