Chinese symbol for double happiness as a red, Chinese paper cut with ornamental stripes and flowers on a chamois-colored background. This sign – is based on the word/character xǐ (喜) / happiness ...

August 8 has been regarded as a particularly auspicious date, both for its numbers and for the fact that the Olympic Games, a matter of intense pride to most Chinese, will open on that day ...

He tells me that the city was visited by substantial numbers of Western Christian missionaries during the 19th Century and thus has - by Chinese standards - a long history of Christian faith.