Letter from Mideast: Finding home in Dubai's Spring Festival

NAMPA / Xinhua
2026-02-23
by Xinhua Writer Xia Xiao DUBAI, Feb. 23 (Xinhua) -- Four months into living in Dubai, homesickness has become a feeling I often have to wrestle with. And the Chinese New Year -- the season of family and reunion -- should have made it worse. Yet it didn't. Also known as the Spring Festival, the most important holiday in China is when most Chinese feel the strongest pull toward home. But for me, thousands of miles away from my homeland, thes......
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