Happy late Holloween everyone, 晚大家万圣节快乐! Offically I posted this late because I needed to experance Chinese Holloween to wrote about it, not because I didn't get around to it until now. You may be suprised to hear that the Chinese actually somewhat celebrate Holloween, but (and this may be my own scewed and small scample) it seems more like ayoung adult thing than a kids thing. While in Beijing the stores did have some Holloween decorarions and some did sell Holloween stuff the real Holloween parties happaned at the night clubs and bars. All the clubs had Holloween themed events and serious decorations, including costumed forigners. Holloween in Shanghai feels a bit more like American Holloween. Some of my friends got to pass out candy to trick-or-treating kids at Global Harbor Mall in costumes. One of my Chinese friends who did not go out still dressdd up for the day. Still, the bars also did stuff, James Bar by campus had free beer from 8:00-9:00 and a costume contest. Chinese Holloween is like Chinese Christmas, very commercial, still I had fun with it. I also don't believe the rurual areas have much Holloween at all.
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Dad
11/2/2016 08:47:43 pm
I would think that Mars, Hershey, Nestle etc. would advertise heavily in China around Halloween. Imagine the size of the potential candy market in a country of 1.5 billion people.
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Jared Paul Miller
11/3/2016 12:41:09 pm
You would think but they don't. I guess Halloween is still a young adult thing here so people buy alcohol, not candy. The candy market is big here but Chinese sweets are sometimes a bit odd.
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