NEW YORK - Wang Fuyu, deputy Party chief of Guizhou province, brought a 60-person ethnic performing group to New York in the second week of October, when the most beautiful scenery is in New England.
The 17-year-old Wu Yueming is perched there gracefully on a 7.5-meter-long bamboo trunk in the middle of the river, using a long, thin strip of bamboo as a paddle to glide along with perfect balance and poise.
China's 9th National Ethnic Games will begin on Sept 10, in Guiyang, the capital of Guizhou province and the country's ethnic groups have a lot of hopes for the games.
Dancers of the Miao ethnic group in Jianhe county, Southwest China's Guizhou province, perform the Shuigu Dance during a local cultural festival on July 6, 2011.This traditional dance of a local Miao village is said to be more than 500 years old.
BEIJING - Canon (China), the giant camera maker and global multimedia corporation, will hold an exhibition about the cultural heritage of the Miao in Beijing in February following a one-year protection project it undertook.
While most films about the Miao ethnic group focus on their vibrant culture and customs, a new documentary aims to present the flip side of this. Xu Lin reports
