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Renée Gray Beaumont

Nanjing Law Enforcement Crackdown as Holiday Season Approaches

News this week of a 19-year-old South African girl who is being released from a Nanjing detention centre after she was arrested on a visa violation has come as a warning to those wanting to work in Jiangsu, while...

Nanjing University Professor Removed over Academic Misconduct

The recent scandal involving the removal of a sociology professor from the prestigious Nanjing University, comes amidst sweeping academic misconduct reforms designed to clean up and build integrity for China’s field of scientific research. Liang Ying, 39, was accused of...

Drunken Dishes Highlight Shanghai Decadence

Before venturing north, south or west, after I first arrived in China, east was my first port of call; magical Shanghai in fact, where truly local Chinese cuisine was first impressed upon me. 
The fiery flare of Sichuan woks is...

Speakeasy Alive & Well in Nanjing Factory

The Nanjinger so happened to be dining at trendy new downtown Western restaurant Herb&Spice, when we were invited to take a look at a whisky bar upstairs. Slightly confused, as we had not seen any evidence of such, we...

‘Aint No Porky Pie, This is The Real Thing!

It was a rainy, cold, miserable, lazy Sunday and my husband and I agreed that we just really fancied a toasted sandwich. So I eagerly jumped on Chinese food delivery APP, ele.me, and began searching. My husband, being British,...

Their Home Expatria; Third Culture Kids & their Global Impact

To be born and raised in the same town, attend the same school and continue on to a local university is fast becoming a thing of the past. Further more so than attending a university not local to your...

The American Priest who Fought for Nanjing

History does not remember that of the Earth in 1937 favourably. A bloody civil war was raging in Spain; in the USA, during his second inaugural address, President Franklin Roosevelt said, “I see one third of a nation ill...

3rd Sino-German Intelligent Manufacturing Summit Aids Innovation

Today, 10 December, 2018, marked the close of the 3rd Sino-German Intelligent Manufacturing Industrialisation Cooperation Summit, which was held in Nanjing in the city’s Future Science and Technology City and other locations from Saturday. The summit, which focused solely on...

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