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Year of the Snake Draws Hisses

At The Wall Street Journal, Te-Ping Chen and Fiona Law describe Hong Kong’s lukewarm welcome for the Year of the Snake: The coming year […] suffers because it is considered a “blind year,” meaning it won’t include the first day of spring. Because the Chinese use a lunar calendar, the first day of the new year typically falls between late January and mid-February. But spring