August in Nanjing defies expectations: extreme heat replaces mild warmth, disrupting normalcy and comfort.
Nanjing's summer is unbearably hot, surpassing other global hotspots with its intense, humid 38°C (feels like 48°C).
Winter in Nanjing offers little relief, as indoor heating makes...
It’s been quite some time now since I discovered that my particular brand of organisation has a name; attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Now, I could fill tomes with how and why this name is not only inappropriate, but...
Stepping off a Nanjing Metro train that has come into Nanjing South Railway Station from Lukou International Airport, there is immediately noticeable the several individuals who sprint the 15 metres or so across the platform to board an awaiting...
News of China’s rapidly-aging population will not have escaped The Nanjinger’s alert readers. That’s right folks, people aren’t making enough babies.
《南京人》的警惕读者不会错过中国人口迅速老龄化的消息。 没错，伙计们，人们没有生足够的孩子。
The problem of course, is the herd effect. And given China is an aspirational society driven by the...
Listen closely to the vocabulary employed in everyday use by many a Nanjinger and you would be forgiven for imagining a preoccupation with Dante’s vision of the afterlife.
仔细聆听许多南京人在日常生活中使用的词汇，你会被原谅想象对但丁对来世的愿景的痴迷。
I’m starving to death! I’m dying of thirst! I’m freezing to death!
我快饿死了！...
I grew up in a small town in Burgundy, France, called Nevers. It was the kind of unstimulating place that every youth would leave in a rush as soon as they graduated high school, which was pretty much what...
Much herein cannot be found in the guidebooks; some suggestions are plain-pretty material for WeChat Moments, while many others take advantage of Nanjing being steeped in history to offer educational opportunity for both the young and history buffs.
Tunnel of...
“We’ll burn that bridge when we get to it” is one of my father’s favourite sayings. “Until the cows freeze over” is another.
“当我们到达那座桥时，我们会把它烧掉”是我父亲最喜欢的谚语之一。 “直到奶牛冻僵”是另一个。
A blended idiom or cliché is called a malaphor. The combination of two hitherto unrelated concepts...
