Renée Gray Beaumont

Best described by Carl Hanson writing for Allrecipes, “When eating Sichuan pepper, you may feel a bit…well, odd”. This month I’m looking at possibly the only food stuff in my 30 years that I’ve eaten that has actually made...

Nanjing’s latest string of arrests, in connection to the production and commercialisation of counterfeit drugs, has revealed an alarming underbelly of uncontrollable fakers. Recently, one such group, detained in December, has been released on bail, a move which has...

It was known as the Hong Kong Walled City, or The City of Darkness. Infamous for its 30 years of ungoverned vice and much more. Run by the Triads, the city that never saw sunlight was an entity unto...

You know when you walk into a really good eastern zen-styled spa frizzy and frayed from life outside, and then you walk out feeling the most relaxed you’ve felt in months? It is almost as if that massage or...

Classical music competitions, together with badminton and chess are where Chinese children seem to excel, almost prodigy like. So it comes as no surprise that the 11th International Youth Art Festival and Jiangsu Youth Piano Open Competition will kick...

On this, World Press Day, the UK’s Guardian newspaper is carrying a story revealing the hidden art in China’s bike share dumps that includes inspiring arial photography of our very own Nanjing. But as the London Commonwealth Heads meeting...

Regular users of taxi sharing scheme, Didi, may have noticed the usually plain white cars have had a sprucing up this spring. Flowing with the season, the app-based platform has given drivers incentives with a collection of free giveaways...

If you were anything like me, when you first arrived in China, you would never have known that one can actually eat bamboo. Scaffolding sure, furniture of course, heck even bedding why not, but as a food, it seemed...