China just celebrated a brand new holiday: Constitution Day (December 4). The government has put forth this holiday as a way to signal it’s commitment to “rule of law,” something that Chinese President Xi Jinping has been promoting with much gusto as of late. Here’s what the Global Times had to say about the holiday: […]
Chinese Freeways are finally Free…Sort of…
It’s Golden Week here in China, which means that the entire country has been given the week off to celebrate National Day (today, October 1), the anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Before 1999, everyone got a three-day holiday. But that year, in order to mark the PRC’s 50th year, […]
