Tag Archives: Chinese New Year

Photos: Chinese New Year fireworks

By Cankles | Published: January 29, 2009
Shanghai is currently in relax mode with everybody on holidays for Chinese New Year. To celebrate the new lunar year there’s no shortage of fireworks going off at every hour of the day. I’ve been told the idea is to drive evil spirits away and to celebrate the festive season. Personally, I can’t help think [...]
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Pepsi – Choice of a Niú Generation

By Cankles | Published: January 27, 2009
There are some cheesy ads tying products to Chinese New Year but I think this has to be one of the saddest pieces of display advertising I’ve encountered.
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Year of the Reindeer Dragon

By Cankles | Published: January 15, 2009
The shopping centre next to Jing An Temple have put up a pretty impressive light show for Christmas and Chinese New Year season (Earth Hour was so 2008, anyway). I couldn’t help notice that after Christmas the creators changed the neon from Santa’s reindeers into dragons. Traditionally I thought dragons were more snake-like, however, I [...]
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