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Empire State Building Turns Red and Yellow The Chinese New Year Festival last 15 days so it has been rather quiet in China. I have also been on holiday so posting less frequently than normal. This Sunday is the Lantern Festival, which ends the Lunar New Celebrations so I should get back to posting more [...]
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Photos: Ray Ally Chinese New Year is fast approaching as the moo of the Ox makes way for the roar of the Tiger. As the third sign in the Chinese Zodiac, it is a symbol of power and authority, which rules the other animals. Over the past few weeks red lanterns and red and gold [...]
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Red and green Christmas decorations have only just come down across China, but are now being replaced by red and gold Chinese New Year decorations. Year by year in China, the biggest holidays in the western calendar are merging with the biggest holidays in the Chinese lunar calendar. Plaza 66, Shanghai’s premier shopping centre has [...]
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Photo: Ray Ally A week ago last Monday night, 9th February 2009, there was a mysterious fire at the unfinished CCTV Tower complex in Beijing. The main iconic tower designed by Rem Koolhaus was undamaged but the unoccupied 40-story Mandarin Oriental Tower was completely gutted in the inferno. Official news stories and reports were hard [...]
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Photos: Ray Ally All across Beijing red lanterns have been appearing in the streets, offices, restaurants, hotels and residential apartments to signal in the coming of Chinese New Year. Red lanterns play a special part in Chinese customs signifying, luck, happiness and prosperity for the coming year. Chinese New Year or Spring Festival (as it [...]
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Photo: Ray Ally Eight months to the day (May 12th 2008), a powerful earthquake measuring 7.9 magnitude rocked Sichuan province in China, killing tens of thousands and making millions homeless. If every picture tells a story then these pictures tell 69,227 stories – one for each of the people that died. As 2008 draws to [...]
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