Pete Liles hung on tight to the spool and guided his 78-inch dragon kite high above Overlook Beach. He had come to the Town ...

D.C., who came to the Museum’s annual kite festival with a dragon kite. “It was just wonderful,” says Crouch. “Made up like the old Chinese kites—and he won that year. Hands down.

Zhang Xiaodong, an inheritor of the kite-making technique, makes a kite in Weifang. Photo: Courtesy of Zhang Xiaodong Zhang ...

Weifang is using its global influence in kiting to establish friendship all over the world, realizing "ancient and modern ...