She spent 10 years studying professional dancing, and classical Chinese dance was her major.

CNN: Dancer paralyzed in fall, dashing Olympic dreams

The New York Philharmonic will mark the occasion with a night of Chinese music and dance at Lincoln Center on 12 February.

BBC: Celebrate Lunar New Year in New York City

It features dance and Chinese opera troupes plus a "City Carnival" on June 12 that includes parades, clowns, fireworks and balloons.

CNN: ASIANOW - TIME Asia | Travel Watch

Founded in 1973, Cloud Gate (it gets its name from China's oldest dance, dating back 5, 000 years) is on a nonstop voyage through world cultures, fusing tai chi, meditation, Chinese opera, modern dance and ballet into an art form that has captivated international audiences.

CNN: ASIANOW - Asiaweek

Peking Opera, also known as Jingju, is a form of traditional Chinese theatre which combines music, vocal performance, mime, dance and acrobatics.

BBC: Chinese Hamlet in 'Jackie Chan style'

Thousands of Deco structures -- hotels and theaters, apartment blocks and luxury villas -- are still standing, evoking the days when ocean liners anchored off Shanghai and European and Chinese grandees mingled with movie stars and gangsters in the city's jazz clubs and dance halls.

WSJ: Touring Asia's Art Deco Gems in Shanghai and Napier, New Zealand