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  • “Spring, its softness is disarming and its light comforting” – A Painter’s Note In Spring and Selected Paintings

    By Sophia Yee, painter and poet

    Spring allows me to express myself fully and freely in a dynamic movement of colors,shapes, lines, light and shadows and to capture the essence of the moment and perhaps the light and shadow that raises me from a sinking mood and a dead spirit. Spring speaks in a unique language that I am eager to learn and digest, to succumb to what is necessary in order to have a meaningful dialogue within the framework of the existing time and space. It is my desire to recreate a time and space in the forms of my canvases; to rediscover and reconstruct a new and to retrieve a ground that I am intent to gain. It is also an opportunity to unveil the mystery and to submit to the self to minimize the feeling of longing, losing and belonging and to come to understand the pain, the joy and the dreary.
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  • Student Leaders Call for Activism at BU’s 2012 MLK Day Celebration

    By David Li, translation by Tielong Xie

    In the afternoon of January 16, Martin Luther King’s alma mater Boston University (BU) held the annual Martin Luther King, Jr. (MLK) Day celebration in MacDermid Kraft Metcalf Hall. Over 1000 BU students, faculty and the community activists, attended the commemoration.
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  • News Is Sometimes Very Incidental

    By David Li, bostonese.com

    An afternoon planned for running on the soccer field, was turned into handshakes with Olympic champions in a hockey arena, and a news report on the front page.

    Zhao Hongbo and Shen Xue wish the best of our readers at Harvard ice hockey arena(photo by David Li).
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  • Collection of Poems and Photos of West Lake in Hangzhou, China

    By Sophia Yee, painter and poet

    I traveled to my hometown Hangzhou, China again in October until December last year.  I wrote more poems this time about the West Lake, I took a lot of photos of the lake and did some sketches for my new paintings.

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  • Angel Dance Company Celebrates Chinese New Year in Style

    By David Li, bostonese.com

    Chinese people have particular affection for the Year of the Dragon. As the only imaginary animal in the 12 zodiacs, the dragon totem symbolizes the Chinese people’s indomitable spirit and courage. In the evening of February 19, 2012, 300 dancers from Angel Dance Company and other friendly dance groups presented a Chinese New Year dance show at Massachusetts Bay Community College McKenzie auditorium.  In front of an audience of more than 500, dancers celebrated the Year of Dragon with performances full of Chinese national styles and music. Even though not every movement by the dancers was impeccable, each dancer’s love of dance and devotion to performance impressed everyone in the audience.
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  • New England Chinese Professionals’ Chinese New Year Gala – A Show of Force

    By David Li, bostonese.com

    In the afternoon and evening of January 28, the 2012 New  England Chinese professionals’ Chinese New Year Gala and Community Forums were held in the Sheraton Hotel in Framingham, MA. More than 500 medical, IT, finance and accounting, legal, education and scientific research Chinese professionals, entrepreneurs and distinguished guests attended the event to celebrate the Chinese New Year of the Dragon. The high-level positions held by many attendees, high-quality community forum and wonderful performances after the banquet, reflecting that the Chinese professional associations of the New England region with unity, cooperation and service to the community, have become a political and economic force to be reckoned with.
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