When forced to stand on a packed Nanjing Metro, have you ever wondered as to how many people are having the same experience? Which line on our city’s metro system is the busiest? And which was perhaps not worth...
When did you last hear of someone not yet a teenager performing Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation to save a senior from cardiac arrest? Never, right? Yet that’s what happened in Jiangsu recently and now the hero has been recognised for his...
The Nanjinger predicted an opening on 1 October. We were wrong. But not by much. For the extension to Nanjing Metro Line S8 north of the Yangtze River in fact began carrying fare-paying passengers just a few hours earlier.
Many...
Some ladies in Jiangsu have been getting into a bit of a fix with their balconies of late, in two separate incidents, in two cities, but with a degree of uncanny similarity. Were they just careless in hanging out...
Wishing for winter? With the heatwave set to continue, many in east China are dreaming of December. But don’t forget the role that humidity has to play; that oppressive damp has the power to make us feel both hotter...
The crested letters, “VR”, adorn the former British Consulate’s wall in Zhenjiang. They stand for Victoria Reign, from Britain’s then Queen Victoria. As a great place from which to begin a visit to Zhenjiang, they are also just a...
