Christmas is beginning to be adopted here in China--not the part about celebrating the birth of the Son of God, Jesus Christ, but the part about spending lots of money.
There is a big Christmas tree on a city square. Lighted trees in front of stores.
And many stores sport cardboard Santa faces in their windows. (And the face is always identical, and in some stores, they stay up for the entire year.)
These doors are the front doors to our apartment building, and about 2 weeks before Christmas,
the Santas appeared, along with a fake tree in the lobby.
We brought the artificial wreath to decorate our front door, Apt. 302.
Even the street signs here in TEDA (notice the logo at the very bottom of the signs) wished everyone a
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Interesting. That statement is now controversial in the land of the free and the home of the brave, but is entirely acceptable in a land that doesn't have those freedoms.
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