Tag: Christmas

The Skies Are White, If Nothing Else: Christmas in Hanoi!
December 16, 2015

The Skies Are White, If Nothing Else: Christmas in Hanoi!

Christmas is back in Hanoi! Those creepy, hip swiveling robot Santas are playing their saxophones outside occasional pho joints and unexpected Christmas trees are popping up in lobbies and windows around town. At the overpriced expat grocery stores you can now buy the world’s tiniest …

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It’s Beginning to Look Not Even Remotely Like Christmas: Faking Festiveness in Shanghai
December 25, 2012

It’s Beginning to Look Not Even Remotely Like Christmas: Faking Festiveness in Shanghai

Actually I lie. I live in Shanghai (which, if you ask the Shanghairen, is barely even China but rather its own magnificent autonomous kingdom of wealth and awesomeness) and oh, the shiny accoutrements of the festive season are out in a big way. Have you …

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The Chinese Christmas Party Post! (Part 2)
January 2, 2011

The Chinese Christmas Party Post! (Part 2)

Remember how my students organized a Christmas party in a tea house at the side of an eight lane ring road, under the shadow of a spider’s web worth of overpasses? Where I feasted on *sigh* everything that features heavily in my almost-but-not-quite worst nightmares? …

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