Christmas

The Chinese city of Yiwu, about 250 kilometers from Shanghai, is often referred to as China’s “Christmas village” thanks to the massive amount of holiday-related merchandise made there. Xinhua, China’s state-news agency, claims that 60% of the world...

The Hebrew year is 5774 and the Chinese year is 4710. That must mean, the joke goes, that against all odds the Jews went without Chinese food for 1,064 years. In fact, Jewish love for Chinese food is neither hallucinated nor arbitrary. It is very...

As the western world eagerly anticipates the festive season, in China Christmas will be a relatively subdued affair.

China’s Christmas lights used to be only in Shanghai and Beijing, but now brisk sales are going to small provincial city shops.