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  1. For a fresh start in the new year, families spend the last days of the old year sweeping floors, ...

    China Tricia Morrissey
  2. Chinese calligraphy is the art of writing Chinese characters with a brush. Calligraphers have to ...

    China Tricia Morrissey
  3. The shimmering, frolicking Lion Dance banishes last year's troubles and welcomes the new year's p...

    China Tricia Morrissey
  4. Hiss! and "Pop!" snap the firecrackers! "Boom!" says the drum to the Lion Dancer. Chinese New Yea...

    China Tricia Morrissey
  5. To bring the sweet scent of spring inside, families visit the flower market on the day before the...

    China Tricia Morrissey
  6. New Year's feasting begins on New Year's eve. In northern China, families gather at kitchen table...

    China Tricia Morrissey
  7. Families and friends carry bright oranges, leafy tangerines and golden pomelos when they stop to ...

    China Tricia Morrissey
  8. Chinese New Year ends with the Lantern Festival, when bright paper lanterns help the full moon li...

    China Tricia Morrissey
  9. A tray full of happiness sits by the door, ready to share with visitors. Sweet dried fruits like ...

    China Tricia Morrissey
  10. Children's pockets bulge with a windfall of shiny, red envelopes. Each envelope is a gift; the gl...

    China Tricia Morrissey
  11. To scare away the terrible Nian, the daring villagers lit hissing, popping firecrackers. Now the ...

    China / Taiwan Tricia Morrissey
  12. On the Champs Elysées in Paris, on Singapore's Orchard Road, and on Canal Street in New York Cit...

    China Tricia Morrissey
  13. Chinese brush paintings decorate each page of this book. If you look closely, you will see the pa...

    China Tricia Morrissey
  14. One New Year's eve, local bandits played a trick on a nearby village. Using bamboo and scraps of ...

    China Tricia Morrissey
  15. Many different cultural groups live in Shangri-La, site of James Hilton's novel Shangri-La. One e...

    China MaryLou Driedger
  16. The Old Quarter of Lijiang has been given a facelift, and proclaimed as a World Cultural Heritage...

    China Graham Simmons
  17.   Tausug or Suluk is the name of an Islamized tribal group in the Sulu archipelago, and is t...

    Philippines Ronald de Jong
  18. The first month of Tet is for family and festivities The second month is for gambling The third m...

    Vietnam Barbara Cohen
  19. Kuching in Malay means cat. Thus Sarawak's state capital is known as the City of Cats. To pay hom...

    Malaysia Heng Wah
  20. Their face is their fortune. Caked in cheap rouge, kajal , powder and lipstick, they dress in ill...

    India Nabanita Dutt

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