Yes, it was a record breaker. The week-long break that was this year’s National Day was the hottest ever. As much of China experienced a heat wave, in our own Nanjing and Jiangsu Province, temperatures rose to their highest...
The province of Jiangsu, our home, is also home to the most cities with metro lines in all of China. And if that’s not enough, recent openings together with those on the horizon shall soon also put the province...
A Siberian tiger has earlier this week attacked and killed a zoo keeper not far from Nanjing, while only yesterday elsewhere, another two tigers escaped from their enclosure, after also attacking a zoo keeper who later died. The tigers...
You would think we would be used to it by now. “Borrowed days” is the concept that’s been in use for quite a number of years; extending national holidays but making up for the lost time by turning a...
While we speed along in a high-speed train on our way to Shanghai through the water towns of southern Jiangsu Province; Wuxi, Suzhou et al, it’s sobering to think that a little more than a decade ago, not only...
Natalie Amezcua, an English teacher from Los Angeles, was not expecting a lot last August when she arrived in Nanjing looking for a taste of home.
来自洛杉矶的英语教师Natalie Amezcua去年8月到达南京寻找家的味道时，并没有期待太多。
Two years of living in Korea had taught her to temper her expectations....
