China Clamors for a Great American Folk Dance...

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The business card of China’s first pole-dancing instructor reads like a Franz Boaz ethnography: “Pole-dancing is one of the ten great folk dances of the world. It was invented by American construction workers who sang and danced witth steel tubes in their hands.”