For the Chinese people, 2024 is the Year of the Dragon. The dragon is considered China’s most significant mythical creature. It’s an imagined animal with features like a bull’s head, deer antlers, shrimp eyes, eagle claws, snake body, lion tail,...
The moon waxes and wanes, your dear comes and goes; the moon turns full and narrow, for our life’s happiness and sorrow; for both human and nature, imperfection is universal. We are one thousand miles apart; the moon looks always dear to...
This is the second time I will be spending Chinese New Year in Jamaica, and it is a different experience. On February 9, I asked my Jamaican students taking the course Survey of Chinese Culture how much they knew about Chinese New Year, and to my...