Chinese leaders attended a 2026 New Year gala featuring traditional opera on Tuesday evening in Beijing. Chinese President Xi Jinping, as well as other Party and state leaders, including Li Qiang, ...

The year 2026 is going to be a busy and educational one for you. The first few months of the year may be quite intense due to the very strong planetary activity, including the eclipses in February and ...

Recent developments underscore a troubling pattern of Chinese "wolf warrior" diplomacy in the Indo-Pacific. On November 8, 2025, Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi stated that a Chinese attack on ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. San Francisco — San Francisco Opera’s hit new opera, Huang Ruo’s “The Monkey King,” which had its final ...

San Francisco Opera's hit new opera, Huang Ruo’s “The Monkey King,” which had its final performance Sunday at War Memorial Opera House, quickly became the hottest show in town, all its performances ...

The Monkey King — known as Sun Wukong in Chinese — first burst fully-formed out of a rock in the classic 1592 novel Journey to the West, widely attributed to the poet Wu Cheng'en. Sponsor Message ...

It’s hard to imagine any part of the world where cultural allusions are more hegemonized than in the West. Everything is a naked Judeo-Christian reference. There have been plenty of great stories told ...

The beloved Chinese hero, Monkey, landed in San Francisco Friday night, complete with an entourage of dancers, singers, acrobats, and antics that came from an ancient story revisited, along with video ...

Huang Ruo and David Henry Hwang’s “The Monkey King,” based on “Journey to the West,” brings an old superhero to the opera stage. By Joshua Barone Reviewing from San Francisco Underestimate the Monkey ...

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The world premiere of San Francisco Opera's The Monkey King by composer Huang Ruo and librettist David Henry Hwang is running November 14-30 at the War Memorial Opera House. One of the most highly ...