Courtesy of Rebecca Xiao A large Christmas service at Rebecca Xiao’s church in Shandong in 2006. Xiao believes halting the celebrations overlooked the powerful ways God used those events.

SHAOXING, China — Chinese producers of plastic Christmas trees and other festive decorations say orders from U.S. clients, which are crucial for their business, should have started to come in by ...

The presentation of writing as culture in China has led to an unusual emphasis on its importance to claims about national heritage. Mr Xi boasts of “5,000 years of unbroken Chinese civilisation”.

My Christmas tree is up — undecorated and with one section that won't light. The mantel is undecorated, no “stockings hung by the chimney with care” as a new garland I ordered is apparently coming ...