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Shangrao; The City Whose Own Map Looks Like a Bowtie

Government administrative reforms in 1983 left Shangrao's territory pinched into two separate lobes joined only by a narrow strip of land, a shape so unusual that Chinese commentators now describe the city's silhouette on a map as a bowtie,...

Nanchang; The Army that Now Rules a Nation Was Born from a Three-Day Defeat

China's People's Liberation Army, now the world's largest standing military force with more than two million personnel, traces its founding to an uprising that held Nanchang, its own capital city, for barely three days before being driven out. 中国人民解放军,如今是世界上现役规模最大的常备军事力量,兵力超过二百万人;而它的建军之日,却可追溯至一场仅仅守住南昌这座自己的核心城市三天,便被击退的武装起义。 At 2am...

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Baby on Board in High Speed Train Emergency Delivered by Urologist into Nanjing

Mid-journey between Shanghai and Nanjing, a routine high-speed train service turned into an improvised delivery room, when a lady...

Iranians in China become more Visible than Countable

These things often start, not with a statistic, but with a voice; Persian heard in a lift, a WeChat...

Why Chinese Men Can’t Quit; Smoking, Face and the State

China has 300 million smokers, nearly a third of the world's total. The imbalance between the sexes is stark:...

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