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  • China’s First Lady in Cartoons and Oil Painting

    By David Li, bostonese.com

    Boston, Feb. 27, 2014, 2014, — Peng Liyuan became China’s First Lady when her husband Xi jinping was elected to be the President of China at National People’s Congress in March 2013. She has gained world-wide popularity as she traveled with President Xi on diplomatic missions.

    The following is some cartoons by Peng Zhangzheng showing the First Lady in different outfits. The cartoon artist, a 35-year-old woman in Hunan province, has been a fan of the First Lady for many years.
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  • ACLS Celebrates Year of the Horse with “Essence of China”

    By David Li, bostonese.com

    Acton, Mass., Feb. 10, 2014, — The Acton Chinese Language School (ACLS) hosted a day-long Chinese New Year Celebration gala on Saturday, Feb. 1 at the RJ Grey Junior High School. Close to 1,000 ACLS teachers, students, parents and local residents attended this annual event.
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    Dance performance by ACLS students (all photos by John Tsou, bostonese.com photographer)
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  • Chinese New Year Celebrations Dazzle around the World

    （from cntv.cn）Celebrations marking the Spring Festival around the world are testament to how much of an influence Chinese culture is having globally.

    From London to Vienna, to Chicago, people are being dazzled by colourful performances and celebrations. Traditional new year events and Peking Opera shows are some highlights that we find out more about next.
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    In the Austrian capital Vienna, Chinese Peking Opera masters are staging a much
    anticipated performance at the the city’s Golden Hall.
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  • Mayors Walsh, Christensen and Wong Attend Year of the Horse Lion Dance Parade in Chinatown

    By David Li, bostonese.com

    Boston, Feb. 9, 2014, — It was a cold day this morning in Boston. Thousands of residents and tourists still showed up for today’s Lion Dance Parade in Boston Chinatown. They were delighted with lion dances by dozens of dancers from various teams to the loud drum beats and firecrackers.
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    Organizers of lion dance parade and elected officials pose for a picture (photo credit: Eadwn Huang for CCBA).
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  • Camilla for the Holidays and Fish for the Year of Horse

    By Beatrice Lee, bostonese.com columnist

    Camilla is a symbol of rich and noble. A Chinese plant to keep during holidays. The full bloom flower of this kind: two inches diameter multiple petals in Chinese “red”, started out like a tiny seed on the branch, then gradually the little bud gets bigger and bigger.
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  • Year of Snake Top 100 Reports on bostonese.com

    By David Li, bostonese.com

    The Year of Snake ended a few days ago when the Year of Horse started on Jan. 31, 2014. We would like to sincerely thank our reporters, columnists, editors, photographers and other contributors for their hard work over past 12 months. We will never forget the chaos and heartbreak after the Marathon bombings, never allow hate speech against Asian Americans to be unchallenged, and never hesitate to give voices to those who needed the most. Working together, we move Boston forward.
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    Some pictures published on bostonese.com during the week of April 15, 2013.
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  • Boston Marches Forward as Year of Snake Ends

    By David Li, bostonese.com

    Boston, Jan. 27, 2014, — The Chinese New Year of Horse starts this Friday, Jan. 31. It will bring an end of the Year of Snake which was full of dramatic events.

    Two bombs interrupted Boston Marathon in the afternoon of April 15 near the finish line on Boylston Street. The picture below has become a symbol of Boston Strong as people of Boston dealt with the aftermath of the bombings.
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    Jeff Bauman, leg blown off below the knee, being wheeled to safety by Carlos Arredondo and Devin Wang of Boston University on April 15, 2013 (AP).
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  • Nonstop Flight between Beijing and Boston to Open up New Opportunities

    （by Jack Freifelder, from usa.chinadaily.com.cn）It’s the largest city in New England and the sister city of Hangzhou, China, and come June it will become another direct-entry point for Chinese travelers as Hainan Airlines launches its Beijing-to-Boston service.
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  • The Chinese in America by Otis Gibson

    Otis Gibson (12/8/1826 – 1/25/1889) was an American missionary to China. On April 3, 1855 Gibson and wife set sail from New York Harbor on a clipper ship bound for Shanghai. In 1856, Otis Gibson and his Methodist co-laborers established two churches in the city, namely, Church of the True God (真神堂) and Church of Heavenly Peace (天安堂), which were the first two Methodist churches built in East Asia.
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  • The Legends of the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival

    I. The Lady – Chang Er

    The time of this story is around 2170 B.C. The earth once had ten suns circling over it, each took its turn to illuminate to the earth. But one day all ten suns appeared together, scorching the earth with their heat. The earth was saved by a strong and tyrannical archer Hou Yi. He succeeded in shooting down nine of the suns. One day, Hou Yi stole the elixir of life from a goddess. However his beautiful wife Chang Er drank the elixir of life in order to save the people from her husband’s tyrannical rule. After drinking it, she found herself floating and flew to the moon. Hou Yi loved his divinely beautiful wife so much, he didn’t shoot down the moon.

    Note: Chang’e 1 Lunar orbiter was launched to the moon on October 24, 2007. The Chang’e moon satellite, named after Chang Er, will take 3-D images of the moon surface for yearlong. This is the groundwork for the next Lunar Lander (Chang’e  2) project in 2012 , Lunar Sample Return (Chang’e 3) in 2017 and Chinese astronaut on the moon project.

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