When asked about his favorite animated films, Yang Yu (Jiaozi), director of "Ne Zha 2" – the world's highest-grossing ...

This inspired him to create The Monkey King. The opera, lasting about two and a half hours, will be performed in both Chinese and English. It combines elements of puppetry, dance, Peking Opera, and ...

animated in a painterly style reminiscent of Chinese brushwork. Stick in particular adds an extra element of fun to these sequences. Not content with letting it just be a weapon, The Monkey King ...