http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/12/world/asia/12beast.html
A YouTube children’s song about the beast has drawn nearly 1.4 million
viewers. A grass-mud horse cartoon has logged a quarter million more views.
A nature documentary on its habits attracted 180,000 more. Stores are
selling grass-mud horse dolls. Chinese intellectuals are writing treatises
on the grass-mud horse’s social importance. The story of the grass-mud
horse’s struggle against the evil river crab has spread far and wide across
the
