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LifeCycle Editorial

Your Lifecycle Week; an Amazing Story

How do they do it so fast? We are used to the amazing speed of Chinese construction, but it was really dramatic to look down on Xianlin Lake the other night. A new structure, a kind of footbridge, had appeared,...

Your Lifecycle Week – fake news

Just when you thought it was safe to grab a can of your favourite beer, the news story comes out of a factory in Dongguan producing fake Budweiser. Local authorities estimate that the company output was about 600,000 cases...

Another Lifecycle Week – Culture and Status

No matter how comfortable you get living in Nanjing, there are always those occasions when you are really aware that you are in another culture. A case in point happened the other night. A man on a bicycle is...

Lifecycle Communication

The news story this morning declared that "6 in 10 foreigners living in China use WeChat". Perhaps some will be surprised that the figure is that high, but here in Nanjing, it might be closer to 100 percent. With...

LifeCycle Decade

We missed it! Two weeks ago marked ten years of WiBGi/Lifecycle. On the 27th of April the first email went out, asking the question "Wouldn't It Be Great If .....?" It grew out of the email list started by...

The Lifecycle Week – Fun and a Warning

The Annual Summer Fair at the British School Nanjing is on Saturday, May 20th. Mark your calendar!ALL THE FUN OF THE FAIR  FREE ENTRY  11am - 3pm16 Hanfu Road, Jiangning district, Nanjing Maybe it seems a bit rough now....

Lifecycle’s Week of Moans and Reminders

Given that most foreigners in Nanjing are not native speakers, it must be interesting when they check their dictionaries after listening to Metro announcements. Apart from the scary "terminal station", why is there a prohibition against "scalping"? Isn't this...

Booze and Boats this Lifecycle Week

Really? Selling bootleg is forbidden? Yet another of the perplexing Metro announcements. So you cannot sell home-made moonshine, but you can offer mass produced baijiu to “thirsty” commuters? Would this include beer? You have to love the colour of...
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