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New Year = at Nasher=20 Museum

BY = WILLIAM F.=20 WEST, The Herald-Sun
February 18, 2007   10:02 pm

DURHAM -- Although 5-year-old Caitlyn Rose Ying Murphy is an American = now,=20 she can say hello and goodbye in the language of her native China.

And Caitlyn can dance, as she did Sunday afternoon with numerous = fellow=20 youngsters of Chinese ancestry at a Chinese New Year Festival at the = Nasher=20 Museum of Art at Duke University.

Caitlyn's adoptive father, Kevin, of Wake Forest, like more than a = few others=20 in the crowd, proudly recorded the event with a video camera.

"She did really well," he said of her performance, adding that she = may want=20 to continue performing in front of audiences. "She likes it really well, = and=20 actually, we're talking to her about what dances she might like to do." =

"We try to go to a lot of events that instill Chinese culture," he = said of=20 his daughter, whom he and his wife, Lisa, brought to the U.S. in 2002. =

Lisa Murphy, when asked what she has learned by having a Chinese = daughter,=20 said, "More respect for the Chinese culture."

The couple already had links to China because Lisa Murphy's father = was a=20 World War II U.S. military navigator who served in the Far East and = whose routes=20 included China.

A key coordinator of Sunday's gathering at Duke was Cyndy = Yu-Robinson,=20 president-elect of the Triangle Area Chinese American Society, which = dates to=20 1978 and is the oldest Chinese-serving organization in the region.

The society on Saturday held a Chinese New Year festival at the State = Fair in=20 Raleigh, and Yu-Robinson said she additionally was asked to bring = performers to=20 the Nasher Museum.

She responded by arranging for Chinese yo-yo demonstrations and a = lion dance,=20 along with a wide variety of other dances and shows.

Yu-Robinson was born in the U.S. Her parents fled the Communist = government on=20 the Chinese mainland and lived in Taiwan before coming to America. = Yu-Robinson=20 married an Italian American.

In addition to doing much work in the Chinese American community, = Yu-Robinson=20 works for the Environmental Protection Agency in Research Triangle Park. = She's a=20 communications director for a research laboratory.

Compared to other cities in North America, the Chinese presence in = the region=20 remains small.

Still, she said Sunday's event was important because, while the South = may=20 have an undeserved reputation for being the least integrated part of the = country, "The Triangle area is a rapidly growing metropolis with a lot = of=20 diverse cultures, not just race, but ethnicity."

That diversity shows in events like the one at Nasher.

"And the girls really enjoy performing because they spend hours and = hours=20 preparing," Yu-Robinson said.

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