It is needless to say that fantasy is one of the world’s most popular genres of films and TV shows. Chinese drama makers take this to a whole new level. In C-dramas, there are several segments within ...
Popular Chinese actor Xu Kai has been receiving praise from critics and viewers for his portrayal of Yue Jin Zhao in the ongoing fantasy drama Sword & Fairy 4. The anticipated drama premiered on ...
As the only true immortal who possesses pure essence energy, Shang Gu (Zhou Dong Yu) has spent countless lifetimes acting as the head of the four true immortals of the ancient world. The four most ...
There are, in English, few ways to talk about sex without using vulgarities, euphemism, or jargon, which presents a problem for translators of ancient love poetry. Enter poet and scholar Economou, who ...
Sufism, is recognized as the mystical branch of Islam, and is often called the "science of the heart." Rumi’s path, which later on became the Mevlevi Order (or Whirling Dervishes), is built on three ...
The love story between Bai Jue, one of the four true Gods, and Shang Gu. As Shang Gu grows from an inexperienced mortal to a powerful immortal, their bond faces immense challenges. Bai Jue, deeply in ...
New research into a little-known text written in ancient Greek shows that ‘stressed poetry’, the ancestor of all modern poetry and song, was already in use in the 2 nd Century CE, 300 years earlier ...
On new poetry by Whitney Hanson, Terrance Hayes, Catherine Tufariello, Nicole Sealey & Ishion Hutchinson & Emily Wilson’s new translation of The Iliad. of clinging to the people and places that have ...