Yes, newcomers, you can celebrate Christmas here

It is already beginning to look like Christmas at Beijing's giant Liangma Flower Market, where Merry Christmas gift bags and stockings, toys, lights, Santa candles and painted wooden angels are filling shelves upstairs from the first-floor plant displays.

By November, there will be live fir trees and wreaths that will make the market's outdoor patio look like a Christmas tree lot that you'd find back where I come from in the United States.

By December, the whole city is celebrating with holiday parties, outdoor displays, lights and holiday feasts. After all, the "Made in China" stamp familiar around the world applies to all the trimmings of Christmas, too.