Know Your Chinese Holidays: Spring Festival
Spring Festival. Chinese New Year. It’s the most wonderful time of the year – a time for celebration, for reflection, for spending 18 hours wedged […]
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Know Your Chinese Holidays: Mid-Autumn Moon Festival
It’s that time of the year again – the one where you get an extra day off. But what does the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival mean, exactly, and […]
Know Your Ethnic Tensions: Xinjiang
Following recent ethnic unrest in the “restive” Xinjiang Autonomous Region in Western China, tensions between the native Uighur population and the Han Chinese are high. […]
Know Your Ethnic Tensions: Hong Kong
Following an informal poll last week that saw nearly 750,000 Hong Kongers vote in favor of “universal suffrage,” Beijing has reacted angrily, branding the poll […]