Emmy-winning producer Bill Borden, who helped shepherd Disney’s hit “High School Musical” franchise, has partnered with China ...

Like millions of Chinese millennials, I spent my childhood summer vacations planted in front of the TV, binging a near-endless stream of reruns of the 1986 TV adaptation of “Journey to the West” — one ...

The Chinese legend of the Monkey King has a popularity in China comparable to that of the Grimms’ Fairy Tales in the West. It has fed the imaginations of countless children and inspired numerous ...

The story, written by Pu Songling, a novelist during the Qing dynasty (1644–1912), is a metaphor about hypocrisy. It also shares its name with this summer’s hottest pop song in China.

With his mix of mischief and might, he resembles the Hollywood pantheon’s many superheroes. But the Monkey King is different: he is more than 400 years old and comes from China.