Square dancing in China first started to gain popularity in the 1990s. Then, it was a casual activity that required little organisation and, like today, it took place across the nation's parks and ...

Square dance problem (China Daily) Updated: 2014-06-12 08:34. ... In short, senior citizens should not be forced to give up square dancing in the weeks preceding the gaokao, ...

With China's humanoid robot industry booming, battery technology has emerged as a limiting factor in performance, prompting ...

BEIJING (CHINA DAILY/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - Square-dancing has long been a popular past-time among some of China's elderly and middle-aged women. Now, there's an app that aims to give China's square ...

WUHAN — Adorned in her elegant dance costume, Wang Xiaolan, the founder of a square dance troupe in Central China's Hubei province, relishes her regular practices and gatherings with fellow dancers.

Young adults in China are embracing a hobby generally favoured by their grandparents. They have become fascinated by square dancing, known as guang chang wu in Chinese, which has long been a ...

Foreign visitors to China are often astonished to find streets and neighbourhoods bustling with middle-aged “uncles and aunties” joyfully engaging in after-dinner square dancing. The activity ...

“Square dancing is a problem left over from history. Many elderly people feel that the whole China is built by their generation. They have the absolute voice and status.

Square dancing, typically associated with older Chinese women, was just one of the ways students tried to kill time and have fun during extended campus lockdowns due to the pandemic. Other attempts, ...

Cemetery honours people who died in local area during Red Army's Long March in 1930s A troupe of "square dancing aunties" in southwest China has ignited widespread outrage across the nation after ...

This is the third and final article in a series on Chinese ‘damas.’ The rest of the series can be found here.. Of all the criticisms heaved at China’s square-dancing dama — derogatory slang for the ...