by Kane Gao | Feb 14, 2018 | China business
A whiff of spent gunpowder permeates the air. You wake up to a morning that seems to have undergone explosive detonations for 22 of the last 24 hours. Outside lies Beijing (or Shanghai, or Shenzhen, or Chongqing, or somewhere else, pick one that applies to your...
by Simon Cousins | Jan 31, 2013 | China business
In this new year of the Water Snake, the Allegravita team wishes all our clients, partners, allies and friends be blessed with the luck brought by double snakes. May you find sources of water on both your left and right, that things bend in your favor under all...
by Simon Cousins | Jan 31, 2013 | China business
January 2013’s Allegravita’s Chinese Takeout focuses on the Chinese Spring Festival (also known as the Lunar New Year or the Chinese New Year, which is somewhat of a misnomer since the new year is celebrated across Asia). If you find this month’s...
by Simon Cousins | Jul 25, 2012 | China business
Every day, hundreds of web users search their way to Allegravita’s website to find out more about the “Chinese New Year”, as well as the other Chinese holidays. This topic has become one of Allegravita’s all-time most popular topics. To address that...
by Simon Cousins | Feb 1, 2011 | Allegravita life
Christmas is the elegant and classy holiday, but the Lunar New Year (LNY) is the holiday to embrace tackiness and gaudiness in its full glory. It is a time filled with superstitious dos and don’ts, but it is also a time where you have license to go all out with the...