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Paper · Semantic Scholar
Become the Dragon: Myth, Dragon Symbolism, and Balinese–Chinese Acculturation in the Contemporary Indonesian Painting of Guh S ManaBackground. Contemporary Southeast Asian art increasingly reinterprets local myth to negotiate cultural identity amid globalization, yet the symbolism, visual narrative, and cultural acculturation embodied in individual Indonesian works remain underexamined, and no indexed academic study has analysed Guh S Mana’s painting Become the Dragon. Objective. This study analyses how the painting reinterprets the Balinese l…
Encyclopedia · Wikipedia
Apis ceranaApis cerana, the eastern honey bee, Asiatic honey bee or Asian honey bee, is a species of honey bee native to South, Southeast and East Asia. This species is the sister species of Apis koschevnikovi and both are in the same subgenus as the western (European) honey bee, Apis mellifera. A. cerana is known to live sympatrically along with Apis koschevnikovi within the same geographic location. Apis cerana colonies are …
Book · DOAB
Jade-Carving Chisel and Luminous OceanJao Tsung-i’s scholarship illuminated the development of classical Chinese literature from antiquity through the end of the Qing dynasty. In this volume, eight interviews with and essays by Jao are translated faithfully into English, giving a sampling of his diverse insights into literature and its broader significance. Topics range from the religious beliefs underpinning the earliest Chinese writings, to the influe…
Image · DPLA
Man smoothing concrete in front of a Chinese funerary statue of a ram, at the Seattle Art Museum (now the Seattle Asian Art Museum) in Volunteer Park, Seattle, Washington, June 10, 1974Wallen 702