Every day during the racing season, 55-year-old Zhang Yajun wakes at 4 a.m. and carefully loads bamboo cages containing his 76 cherished racing pigeons into a van. Then he drives up to 200 ...

To American audiences, especially comic fans, the title “New Gods” may confuse. “New Gods: Yang Jian” is not related to comic legend Jack Kirby’s 1970s DC masterwork that spawned ...

Pigeon racer Zhang Jian with one of his prized birds in his rooftop loft in Beijing. Karoline Kan for CNN. CNN — Every day during the racing season, ...