On Dec 3, the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, a new song titled I've Decided to be Born was released. The ...

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 ...

Visitors to the Nanning Zoo were stunned when a monkey named Diunaxing was seen smoking a cigarette inside its enclosure. The great ape picked up a partially lit cigarette that had presumably been ...

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 ...

Chinese Opera The Monkey King holds its final dressed rehearsal in San Francisco, the United States, on Nov. 12, 2025. The world premiere of The Monkey King was staged at the San Francisco Opera on ...

A mischievous hero from Chinese legend is taking center stage in a new opera. He’s been a comic-book star, an animated hero, and even the subject of poetry by Mao Zedong. Now, the Monkey King, famous ...

The Monkey King, a mythical Chinese character created by Wu Cheng'en in his 16th-century novel "Journey to the West," has been portrayed in films, manga and video games. But the mischievous hero has ...

Composer Huang Ruo long dreamed of adapting the classic Chinese tale “Journey to the West” and its mythical character the Monkey King into an opera, but thought that ambition was a pipe dream. “I grew ...