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Share Stuart Beaton guest blogs here about the festivities and customs surrounding the Spring Festival in China. Stu also has his own site at http://rastous.podomatic.com/. I’m excited to share his latest post as we approach the start of the Year of the Dragon. Here’s Stu: As I sit here, writing this, the still night outside is being [...] Share This Saturday I’m going to a Chinese New Year banquet, one I attend each year with friends from Hong Kong and China. Lots of good food and catching up, all in the comforts of my friends’ beautiful suburban home. The American Dream. But that wasn’t always the case with Chinese New Year and me. I [...] Share Stuart Beaton’s latest guest blog hits home. I never became a coffee drinker precisely because of the huge Nescafe presence in China. When I needed to warm up, my choices in China were hot water, tea, or Nescafe. I quickly learned to become a tea drinker, although I was known to drink hot water in [...] Share In two and a half weeks, we’ll be leaving the Year of the Rabbit for the Year of the Dragon. And to usher in the new year and its mighty dragon, here’s a short list of dragon-inspired books for kids and adults. One of my kids’ favorite new acquisitions is this fun picture book illustrated [...] Share One of the most remarkable things about the famine which occurred in China between 1958 and 1962 was that for over twenty years, no one was sure whether it had even taken place. So begins Jasper Becker’s Hungry Ghosts: Mao’s Secret Famine (The Free Press, 1996), the first account of how 30 to 45 million–or [...] |
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