Feature proposal

Yixiang Zeng (Intern)

Working title: Chinese's Christmas Exploration

Story idea: A close-up of how Chinese celebrate Christmas – through comparison between young British Born Chinese and modern Chinese youngsters.

Story Clue:

Christmas is the traditional and the most important holiday in the West, just the same as important as the Spring Festival in China.

Christmas is the time for family members get together in many Western countries, including Britain. Tam Emily, a British Born Chinese, originally coming from Hang-Kong naturally adopts this family concept, so how she prepares and what she does to celebrate Christmas?

On the other hand, Christmas hurricane arrives China and gradually sweeps those modern cities, such as Beijing and Shanghai, but why those youngsters want to celebrate Christmas? And how they are going to celebrate it? Staying with family, friends, go for a trip, or attended church for religious reasons?

Mingzhu Chen, a posh Shanghaies talks about her Christmas experience and the reasons behind.

Apart from the above characteristics, the localised Chinese Christmas is strongly permeated a very special charisma, a boy from Beijing and currently studying in London shared his beautiful Christmas memory.

Though the localised Chinese Christmas is so popular among youngsters, Taiwai, an island will never forget its traditional mission.

China today is much more open-minded and tolerant compared with years ago, is Chinese's Christmas exploration a good sign for multiculturalism development within China? Can it play a role to inspire or stimulate young Chinese to make up their own mind? Prof. Xxxx from the School of Oriental and African Studies discusses the China's Christmas Exploration phenomenon.