International Workers'Day is celebrated on May 1 each year,but even though employees around China will be taking a five-day break from Wednesday,May 1,until Sunday,May 5,only one of those days counts as a true day off...
Li Tengfei,a traffic police officer in Sanhe,a small city in the northern Chinese province of Hebei,is now in her 27th year of public service.But she still remembers a note her son wrote many years ago when he was lit...
Fu Chao,a white-collar worker in Beijing,faced quite the predicament ahead of this year's Spring Festival,China's biggest annual holiday and a time for family reunion.She'd planned to spend the eight-day holiday,start...
Christmas always brings conflicting feelings for mesa sense of nostalgia for home and yet disdain for its nowrampant commercialism. I have a love-hate relationship with Christmas,and Beijing made it easier to escape t...
Dubbed the "'Golden Week," the National Day holiday (normally October 1-7) is a traditional peak travel period for many Chinese who hit the road. But this year's holiday was different from years past: most moto...
Migratory birds seem to have it all figured out: in the winter it gets cold, so they pack up and fly south to warmer climates. Unlike my feathered friends, when the cold sets in, my winter jacket comes out and I begin...
Iadmit it. I get too protective of Christmas. But Christmas is, far and away, my favorite holiday, and I love it dearly. From the carols, the tree, the gifts and the drifting blankets of
As China opens to the world, Chinese people are embracing the Western world's holidays. Christmas, Valentine's Day and Halloween are all growing in popularity, as the commercial aspects of these celebrations find an a...