Soyombo symbol arrangement of abstract and geometric symbols and patterns. They are fire, sun, moon, two triangles, two horizontal rectangles, the "Taijitu" (yin and yang) and two vertical rectangles. The elements in the symbol are given the following significance (from top): The Soyombo symbol has appeared on the national Flag of Mongolia since 1911 (except between 1921 and 1924). It served as the Emblem of Mongolia from 1924 to 1940, and was included in the design again in 1992. Mongolian Armed Forces vehicles bear the symbol as a marking. The symbol is seen all over the country, especially on a hillside outside
Yang ± Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema in spite of social conservatism and government censorship. Chia-Chi Wu writes, 'In its queering of Chinese-language film– reclaiming or recreating Chinese texts for queer interpretation – "Yang±Yin" undercuts heteronormativity and patriarchy foundational to nationalist discourses of Chinese communities and creates a queer imaginary that is ‘pan-Chinese’.' Kwan draws attention to the coded or subtle queerness of Chinese cinema. For example, director Zhang Che describes, 'possible 'Freudian' readings' of his film "The Slaughter In Xi'an" (1990), thus, according to Fran Martin, 'validating the power of the spectators agency and never denying the erotic tensions bubbling beneath supposedly chaste canons of Confuscian