{"id":653,"date":"2017-01-27T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-27T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.eda.kent.ac.uk\/news-ext\/2017\/01\/27\/eda-celebrates-the-year-of-the-rooster-2017\/"},"modified":"2017-01-27T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T01:00:00","slug":"eda-celebrates-the-year-of-the-rooster-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/2017\/01\/27\/eda-celebrates-the-year-of-the-rooster-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"EDA celebrates the Year of the Rooster 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Staff, students and guests from the School of Engineering and Digital Arts continued the tradition of celebrating the Chinese New Year with a buffet of Chinese food and entertainment in the social area of the Jennison building on the evening of Friday, 27 January 2017 (Chinese New Year&#8217;s Eve).<\/p>\n<p>Hosted by Jinyu Liu, the celebrations included an entertaining presentation by Jingqiong (Jane) Zhang about the Fire Rooster and a programme of musical entertainment performed by researchers and staff from EDA. Some performers were invited from UKC CSSA (Chinese Students and Scholars Association) Music Society.  Chenxi Wang, the 12-year old daughter of Dr Tao Wang (EDA Visiting Senior Research Fellow), performed a piano and vocal solo.  A video clip of the speech by the Prime Minister Theresa May on the Year of the Rooster was also played at the party.  A highlight of the party was an interactive game called &#8220;mannequin challenge&#8221; which took place during the musical performances. The evening was rounded off with a range of Chinese games.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff, students and guests from the School of Engineering and Digital Arts continued the tradition of celebrating the Chinese New Year with a buffet of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/2017\/01\/27\/eda-celebrates-the-year-of-the-rooster-2017\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55249,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}