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Simply the Best! Nanjing City Wall; Oldest, Longest, Highest

Today we see Nanjing as an old city, inhabited by new people. The sightings of luxury cars and flashy new cell phones clash rather heavily against the backdrop of this city being the ancient capital of the mighty Middle Kingdom. On...

The Dropa; Large Scale Extra Terrestrial Invasion of China

The story of events in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947 is infamous; the subject of countless books, websites, periodicals, TV series et al. The story itself is also perhaps more famous for being quite possibly the biggest hoax ever...

Expat Nightmares; Cross-Cultural Adaptation

It's difficult to believe that many multinational corporations spend from 150,000 to as much as half a million US dollars on moving an expat family to China. It is also then quite staggering to realise that half of such...

E.T. On a Mission to Clean (Nanjing)

I found myself in a strange place; a city called Nanjing. The air was thick, and the dark sky was alight with explosives. I am pretty sure those things rocketing into the air and shattering into pieces of colour were...

English Names = More or Less Economic Opportunity for Chinese Youth?

Picture the following scenario: A girl gets sent to the best school in Shanghai; then to the best university there; then does a master’s in Melbourne, Australia. After graduation in Australia, she sends out forty resumes to companies there...

Quotations from Skinny Zhu

For many, Taobao has become their best friend. After all, the process cannot be any easier. On a dreary evening, you scroll through the website in your pajamas, tap a couple of buttons and voila; everything you need will...

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China’s Brain Banks Need Donors as Human Tissue Reveals Dementia Clues

China’s human brain banks are still struggling to attract donors more than a decade after the first facilities opened,...

Car-Bed Campers Turn Hotel Car Parks into Free Showers and Toilets

Chinese road trippers are swapping hotel rooms for the back seats of their own cars, folding them flat into...

China’s Metro Map Grows by Almost 65km Ahead of National Day

China’s National Day holiday has arrived with three cities adding new metro links. Nanjing, Qingdao and Changchun have opened...

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