Feature Stories

As the rough equivalent of the Gatsbies of the West, the Chinese term, “Phoenix Man”, usually refers to Chinese men who were born into poor families, but worked extremely hard in school and went to university, then stayed in...

Fitzgerald’s enigmatic anti-hero in “The Great Gatsby” has seen a resurgence in popularity at the dawn of the 21st Century as a poster child for optimism, tenacity and the power of a bit of hard slog. Yet, it is...

It is so hard to imagine China’s flapping days of luxury; Nanjing’s pockets of glitz and glamour, before it all took a turn for the worse, only to revel in its renaissance a century later. All too often, modern...

Super skeptics label it as a form of commercialism on steroids that has lost all hint of its true roots in contemporary Chinese culture. Inescapable for the month leading up to the celebration itself, the airwaves and Internet saturated...

The clock is wound, the City is waiting, Ready to begin its day before dreams have ceased; Slowly the sun rises, the City is waiting, eagerly hovering, Breathe held, counting down... Breathing dew into the air Winding the engines of...

A common trend dominating pop culture of the West is the emergence of exclusively women-only groups, who refer to themselves as tribes, dress as gypsies from the 60s, worship Egyptian symbolism, bathe in crystals under the moonlight and worship...

Each morning, they march to work, in coffee shops, training centres, import/export companies, hairdressers, even art galleries, and then, plain old retail. Each night, they return to their tiny apartments, cramped on account that as many as six may...

There are just two National 5A Level Tourist Attractions in Nanjing, the somewhat obvious Dr. Sun Yat-Sen’s Mausoleum, and the Confucius Temple (Fuzimiao) area, in which lurks the less-than-usual suspect that is Wende Bridge. That may not in itself...