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Christmas on Taobao: 5 Most Popular Online Holiday Goods in China

When you live in a country that doesn’t officially celebrate Christmas, people are bound to interpret the holiday in both

The other day, while browsing Alibaba’s Tmall, the online giant’s popular virtual shopping center, I happened upon a Christmas item

People are always bewildered when I tell them that I don’t like celebrating Christmas. The exact reasons are less than

When I had first met my husband, I knew that sharing our cultural traditions would be memorable. We came from

After 15 years in Beijing, it definitely feels like home to me, but there’s something about the big holidays –

Christmas is your Chinese New Year. I’ve heard this phrase uttered countless times by people in China when the holidays

Every year many expats like myself face the choice of Christmas in their adopted home – China – or Christmas

My hometown is in the snowy hills of New England where people tap their own maple trees and bake their

Just one week to go till the 1st of December knocks on our door and with it Christmas month. We