Cassia wine Cassia wine Cassia wine, osmanthus wine, or Kuei Hua Chen Chiew is an alcoholic Chinese drink, sometimes sweetened, produced from weak baijiu and flavored with sweet osmanthus flowers. It is distilled, but typically has an alcohol content less than 20%. While the plant itself is sometimes associated with cinnamon, the blossoms' lactones impart a flavor closer to apricots and peaches. Owing to the timing of the plant's blossoms, cassia wine is the traditional choice for the "reunion wine" drunk on the Mid-Autumn or Mooncake Festival. From the homophony between and (meaning "long" in the sense of time passing), cassia wine
Cassia Spohn Cassia Spohn Cassia Cathleen Spohn is a Foundation professor at Arizona State University, where she is also the director of the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice. Spohn attended the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where she received her B.A. in journalism and political science in 1973, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in political science in 1975 and 1978, respectively. Spohn joined the faculty of the University of Nebraska at Omaha in 1978 as an assistant professor in the Goodrich Scholarship Program. In 1987, she was appointed a professor in the Department of Criminal Justice there, a position she held until joining