Once upon a time, Suzhou typified the water towns of Jiangnan, the area south of the Yangtze River home to villages interlaced by canals, rivers and lakes. Today, at the far end of the spectrum, what was 30 years...
In the history of modern China, Nantong set records as a kind of “city of firsts”. The new nation’s first museum, first textile school, first embroidery school, first drama school, and the first Chinese-run school for the blind and...
Lianyungang City in northeastern Jiangsu derives its name from Lian Dao, the largest island in Jiangsu, and Yuntai Mountain, the highest in the province.
江苏东北部的连云港市得名于江苏最大的岛屿连岛和全省最高的云台山。
The former is remarkable, the latter less so, for it being eclipsed by the home to...
Smack bang in the middle of Jiangsu Province, the city of Huai’an has witnessed the birth of the truly great; the most famed and respected of Chinese leaders, as well as the author of one of the nation’s most...
Known for its salt, Yancheng’s name in Chinese literally means “Salt City”. Here, humans carved out salt and timber works over 2,100 years ago as mudflats formed along the coastline.
盐城以其盐而闻名,中文名字字面意思是“盐城”。 在这里,当沿着海岸线形成泥滩时,人类在2100多年前雕刻了盐和木材工程。
Yancheng takes up approximately half of the Jiangsu coast...
Nanjing’s neighbouring city of Yangzhou is stereotypically famed for two things; pretty ladies and fried rice. While there is a lot to be said for both, in the bigger scheme of things, the city of Yangzhou was, historically, one...
Zhenjiang is Jiangsu’s smallest city jurisdiction, at just 3,840 square kilometres. But size is no measure of quality; Zhenjiang was in fact capital of Jiangsu Province between 1928 and 1949, when Nanjing served as the capital of the Republic of China.
镇江是江苏最小的城市辖区,面积只有3840平方公里。...
Sleepy may be perhaps once have been the best word for laid-back Taizhou in Jiangsu Province.
困倦可能曾经是江苏省悠闲的台州的最佳词。
More than 700 years ago, Marco Polo toured Taizhou and praised as a city which is is “not very big, but where there is...