It’s Christmas Eve and we’ll be going away next week (Sanya and then Hong Kong) so let me wish both of my readers and my Mom a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
(If you miss me, you can check out this week’s Sinica Podcast, Kaiser Kuo, David Moser and I discuss “The Long Arm of History.”)
Until 2011, 圣诞节快乐!

Question:
How do Chinese people in Beijing ‘celebrate’ Christmas? Discounts? Parties at discos? Giant melees with inflatable clubs (which is what happened down here, terrifying to behold)?