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Is it a martial art or is it a dance? Apparently, it's a bit of both. This episode of Sexy Beijing talks to two expats who have made it their mission to introduce the Brazilian sport to the Chinese public.

If you were born in the Year of the Rat, then this year is your ben ming nian (本命年) — the year when lots of inauspicious things will happen to you. Watch this episode of Sexy Beijing to learn what you must do to ward off all the bad luck and evil spirits.

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American style fast food is big in China these days and chains like McDonald's continue to expand across this massive market. At the same time, young Chinese are fatter than their parents were. Coincidence?

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Snowboard pros from around the world converged on Beijing's Nanshan ski area this winter for the Nanshan Open, battling it out for $25,000 in prizes. Sexy Beijing correspondent Rachel Dupuy headed out to Nanshan to see what's going on with China's newly forming snowboarding scene. Featuring music by Beijing band Carsick Cars.

Sufei of Sexy Beijing never fails to crack us up! This Chinese New Year, she takes her tireless search for a Chinese husband all the way from Beijing to Hong Kong, and asks people she meets on the street whether the guys from the north or the south would make better husbands. Some of what those interviewees had to say (in both Beijing and Hong Kong) were just hilarious! Watch it!

Sexy Beijing's latest Hard Hat Show explores how rising prices of basic food items are affecting the man on the street.

So it turns out that 42nd Street was as popular in Beijing as it was in Shanghai. Our inside sources tell us that while the musical packed the halls in Shanghai and Beijing, ticket sales just about everywhere else sucked. Sexy Beijing's Sufei went down to a screening to ask Chinese audiences what they thought of the show, and interviewed the actors as well. Two glaring observations: 1. Kristen Martin, the lead actress of the...

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In the latest edition of Sexy Beijing, Sufei hits Shanghai and asks her psychoanalyst and historian dad if her obsession with Chinese men has anything to do with her relationship with him and his relationship with her mom. Turns out that they have a really fascinating family history! Sufei's grandfather was a practising psychiatrist in Hamburg and his brother was the Chief Rabbi of Augsburg and everyone was forced to flee Nazi Germany when her father was just a baby, so he spent the early years of his life in China (and he's got the pictures to prove it!). As we all know, many Jews chose to come to Shanghai because it was the best and safest place to go on about their business. Of course their party didn't last long but that's another story. But okay we'll quit talking for now so you can go back in time with Sufei into the Shanghai of 1930's.