The role of mooncakes and associated gifts has changed in recent years, driven in part by President Xi Jinping’s now decades-old Tigers and Flies campaign against corruption.
Not another box of mooncakes!
It seems we have barely finished eating the mooncakes from last year when we suddenly start receiving them again. The Mid-Autumn Festival is not until Oct 6, but the trickle of mooncake gifts has already started to arrive.
