Based on looks or general feeling?
Was it based on prejudice or fear?
Based on two or more sharing.
That legend, about a women skilled in martial arts, is said to be based on the Shang dynasty military strategist Fu Hao.
The new work, based on the Ming dynasty tale of a Buddhist monk in love with an enemy's daughter, explores several issues.
Emily Deutchman, 24, of New York City, said she was getting "a crash course in leafing" as she worked on a print of Beijing, based on a Ming dynasty city plan.
Based on a Han dynasty prototype, an 18th-century bottle with a neck ending in the head of a duck and a spherical body covered by hexagonal modules and red blossoms offers an archaic, semi-abstract simplicity.
At the Doris Duke Studio Theater, the modern-dance choreographer Yin Mei will present her "/Asunder," set to music by Robert Een and based on a Ming dynasty tale of a Buddhist monk who falls in love with the daughter of his enemy.
Based on the Yuan dynasty play "Orphan of Zhao," the story centers on Chen Ying (Ge You), a humble court doctor who, at great personal cost, saves the life of the newborn heir to the throne when the child's family is massacred in a coup led by the deadeyed Gen. Tu Angu Wang Xue-qii).
Loosely based on a Tang dynasty tale of a young woman raised as a killer (to which Hou and his writers have added both historical detail and imaginative backstory), The Assassin centres on Nie Yinniang (Shu Qi), taken from her home and raised by her aunt, the Princess-nun Jiaxin (Sheu Fang-yi), who teaches her to cut down quarry like "a bird in flight".
