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Snapshots: Dancing Dragons

by Jessica Marsden on August 20, 2010

This was meant to appear last week as the final post as my series on Guizhou, but then I went to Richmond and forgot the charger to my laptop. So without further ado, the dragons and dragon boats of Shibing, Guizhou: Theundisputed highlight of our trip — a visit to the tiny town of Shibing [...]

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Dragon Boat Festival Tomorrow!

by Jessica Marsden on May 27, 2009

Tomorrow, May 28, is China’s Dragon Boat Festival, or Duanwu Jie. This traditional festival, which was added to the list of official holidays just last year, commemorates the heroism of Qu Yuan, a poet and government official from the Warring States Period. According to legend, Qu Yuan was exiled for daring to criticize some of [...]

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