Feature Stories

Something which is often forgotten about China in the global discussion is the way it is fundamentally organised; for the people. After all, it is the People’s Republic of China, the People’s Liberation Army, the Municipal People’s Government, etc. The...

Once upon a time, at this very self-same time of year, a tiny starling flew in through my classroom window in Nanjing's Xianlin. It began to flap a frantic, feathery circle around the room; some of the kids ducked...

They say the ones who seek constant crowds are but nothing alone. Their souls lie in the masses, existing only as a part of something bigger. An organism of its own, born from an unspecified quantity that despite broken...

My dog dreams. I watch him, micro spasms of muscle power him through heroic dog epics of the ectoplasm of consciousness, barking at dream squirrels in dream trees. I also dream, but these bubbles of subliminal thought vanish at...

In China, dreams mean different things today compared to before. When our societies were tribal, it was thought that dreams were instructions from the gods or even evil spirits seeking to do harm. In ancient China, people believed that every dream...

Perhaps if I had chosen a different restaurant, I pondered to myself, this would have turned out differently.  This particular Italian restaurant had seemed like the ideal spot for a first date. The room was candle lit and elegantly topped...

Observing the world during the past 24 months, it seems that the most apparent hibernating species is not the commonly perceived, good-old garden-variety bear, but instead the Homo Sapien. Ever since the COVID pandemic began, public spaces around the world...

Not long ago, and in a world where these kinds of happenings were commonplace, lived a family of bears. Now, they might have looked identical to your average Earth Brown Bear, and indeed they had many of the same...