the view from fanling

Even though the date of Chinese New Year wanders up and down the Gregorian calendar over a range of about four weeks, it always seems to be ...

You can probably guess, based on my previous post, that I like fireworks, but this wasn’t always the case. My earliest memory of this kind o...

I often say that the best time to be in Hong Kong is Chinese New Year—if you’re a resident. If you’re a visitor, it’s the worst time—everywh...

Firecrackers had been going off sporadically all morning, and the local lion-dance troupe, which is always kept very busy on the first day o...