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==Cultural references== "Dragonfly eyes" (Chinese: θ»θηΌ ''qingting yan'') is a term for knobbly multi-coloured glass beads made in Western and Eastern Asia 2000β2500 years ago.<ref>https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/microscopy-and-microanalysis/article/abs/nondestructive-analysis-of-dragonfly-eye-beads-from-the-warring-states-period-excavated-from-a-chu-tomb-at-the-shenmingpu-site-henan-province-china/E2FCF854D5324115F503E1643C33BDBD DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1431927612014201</ref> Owing to the multiple views and stimuli, compound eyes or dragonfly eyes have become a feature in art, film and literature, particularly in the 2010s. For example: * ''[[The Man with the Compound Eyes]]'', novel (2011) by [[Wu Ming-yi]], English translation (2013) by [[Darryl Sterk]] * [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6576482/ ''Dragonfly Eyes''], movie (2017) by [[Xu Bing]] * [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1127096979 ''Dragonfly Eyes''], novel (2016) by [[Cao Wenxuan]], English translation (2021) by [[Helen Wang]]
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