春节快乐 from Lost Laowai
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Gift Recycling: China’s Not-So-Underground Economy
MichaelAs China celebrated the Mid-Autumn Festival this past week, countless gifts were exchanged by friends, families, and co-workers in homes and offices all across the country. In the days following the festival, many gifts changed hands once again, this time behind store counters and in narrow back alleys. These second exchanges were part of a twice-yearly phenomenon whose name is spelled out in a simple four-character …
Video: 2011 Year of the Rabbit
So, it's a little late and most of us have begrudgingly returned to work, but 新年快乐 fellow laowai.
I captured my own thoughts, photos and videos of my 6th Chinese New Year's Eve on my blog, and so won't waste space with a reiteration here.
However, I wanted to share this great short video by Jonah M. Kessel, Paul Morris and Kit Gillet:
2011: The Year of the Rabbit from Jonah Kessel on Vimeo.
To capture…
24 hours / 24 photos — Spring Festival in Liuzhou
Michael Steverson, better known as "Expatriate Games" in the blogsphere and on Flickr, has put together an awesome project entitled "Xin Nian Hao - 24 Hours in Liuzhou". The series of photos and accompanying stories chronicle an entire day (one photo an hour) over CNYE and into the early morning hours of the first day of the new lunar year.
The 4:35:19 AM shot was my favourite for the story that followed the s…
Chun Jie: The Next Generation
I really like Spring Festival. Honestly. Every year I hear the arguments about the "crazy Chinese and their crazy fireworks", but despite the noise (and limb-losing danger) I have to admit that I get a bit caught up in the season.
I suppose I've not been here long enough yet to truly understand what that holiday feeling is, certainly not to the extent my wife and her compatriots do. Being home for the Christmas se…
