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The Chinese government is cracking the whip on "dancing grannies"-- groups of older women dancing in unison in parks and plazas. "Dancing in public squares represents the collective aspect of Chinese ...

A fellow dancer at Phoenix Chinese Dance Academy helps Lee Sanhunchai fix her makeup during a dance rehearsal in the Dance Center at West St. Paul in January 2022.

Talk to a growing number of Chinese women and you’re likely to hear the names Sue and Kathy uttered breathlessly, feverishly and with deep respect. That’s because Sue Hsu, 47, and Kathy Chang, 48, are ...

The dancers in Monterey Park’s Barnes Park favor cloth slippers over cowboy boots, but there’s no mistaking the genre. Country-western line dancing — minus the country and the western — has caught on ...

Editor’s note: Emily Wilcox is a professor of Chinese studies in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at William & Mary in the United States and recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim ...