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Renée Gray Beaumont

China’s Long Lost Longevity County; Bama

China’s ill and aging have begun a mass exodus to the caves of Bama in desperate hopes to cure their illnesses and prolong their lives. Masses of China’s aged and severely ill have discovered a long...

Face Maintenance

If you are reading this, you either live in China, are passing through or have an active interest in reading about life here. So it is undoubtable that you have at some point at least brushed on the notion...

Out With Paris and in With Abu Dhabi

Delegates from the UAE (United Arab Emerites) have dispatched a group of hotels, travel agents, companies and airlines and also tourism departments and representatives of the industry, to Shanghai and Beijing, with stops in Chengdu, Wuhan, Guangzhou and Nanjing...

Compensation Thirst Inspires Mass Village Divorce

Making way for a high-tech development zone, a village in Pukou District’s Jiangbei area is to be demolished. With that comes compensation, and with that comes divorce. Residents of the village in Nanjing’s northern suburbs have...

Shopoholics of China

They sat around a private table at a popular coffee haunt in 1912. Lattes and mochas in hand, they laughed and joked as they caught up; it had been a while. Lin sat at the end, her long black...

Big Green Business

Another social shift is bubbling in Nanjing; one mainly due to the increase in wealth and standards of living. The middle to upper classes are fed up and unwilling to buy many domestic products destined for the mouth.They should...

Didi English Service in Trial Run

Halleluiah, traveling about town just got so much easier! Owners of Uber China and Didi Chuxing have this month set about testing the taxi hailing APP’s English interface. Somewhat suspicious when I used the app the other day; it...

Top Transplant Specialist Stabbed in Nanjing Hospital

The morning of 17th February began at 8.30am with a vicious attack on one of Nanjing’s most senior liver transplant specialists. The doctor suffered a stab to his left leg, fractured jaw and mouth lacerations during...

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