You don't necessarily need a permit for these sort of street gatherings, but some local governments are aiming to crack down on {洋节|yáng jié}/foreign holidays for nationalist and/or anti western cultural hegemony reasons.

Although modern Halloween barely has anything to do with the religious roots as the eve of All Saints Day, some people have argued that it's essentially a celebration of a foreign religious festival which goes against laws that prohibit prosletyzing religion (no-one really seriously believes this).

However, coupled with the specific location, which was used for anti lockdown protests, and the fact it was spilling onto public roads, the Shanghai police shut it down with little warning. A bit heavy handed but wasn't a nationwide ban.

Like just looking around the XHS I can see costume parties from Chengdu to Beijing. SH police was overcautious due to previous protests at that exact location, and were too heavy handed in dispersing the gathering.

they should tho

when people riot over college basketball and get arrested

Cops in the US will just let you riot, for the most part, so long as you don't block them or trespass on their turf.

Was in downtown Austin during a real raccous 6th Street party and the police were simply standing around in front of a few of the nicer buildings. My friend moved out of the way of a big cluster of people in the crowd and crossed some invisible line. Two cops immediately rushed him, tackled him, and dragged him off for trespassing. Some guy was straight up standing on a car half a block away and nobody cared.

J6 was crazy in so far as how blaise the initial police response was. Whites really don't have any kind of fear of the police in the US.

I think that's the root of the anti-China hysteria. "What if you were in a country where you weren't completely immune from the law?"

annual halloween riot

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the chiangist brigands have infiltrated wuhan

Do you know a good park or riverside for running? One suggestion was 沙湖公园, but it was from a western site and the route appeared to go along a main road which is less than ideal. If you do know one an amap link would be great

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Halloween is a pagan holiday, it's western, but that doesn't mean its bad. I do like me some Halloween stuff. I feel like we should embrace culture and make it our own, instead of just discarding it for where it comes from. Of course, no one has to like Halloween, but I don't think there's any harm in celebrating it

It's a Western "holiday", I understand why South Korea and Japan celebrate Western holidays like Halloween and Christmas, because they are USA puppets. Hope they don't continue embracing the hyper consumerism of Christmas.

Step #1 of the new revolutionary government: proletarianize Halloween

How?

Halloween is a pagan holiday, it's western, but that doesn't mean its bad. I do like me some Halloween stuff. I feel like we should embrace culture and make it our own, instead of just discarding it for where it comes from. Of course, no one has to like Halloween, but I don't think there's any harm in celebrating it, or having a party

(cw: slurs) how settler-colonial societies have "fun"

Me too. Maybe one day.

There's English signage in a lot of big Chinese cities. I don't think it's especially touristy here, at least for foreigners. Although I did hear there are quite a lot of historical sites

I've gotten adds on YouTube videos in the past advertising it as a vacation spot.

Internally, there's a fair amount of tourists from other parts of China. But it's large enough to just have an expat/immigrant community, I'm currently in an international bar in Hankou and half the patrons are white