Feature Stories

Vintage wine may be a treasure worth preserving, but should vintage traditions be preserved in the same way as well? It is no doubt that digging up a bottle of wine buried for decades, immersed beneath layers of soil,...

The last time I went home, vintage was all the rage. My mother used to take me Op shopping (opportunity), charity or thrift to those Brits and Americans reading this; the smells, the stories, the treasures we could find;...

A whopping 130 million mainland Chinese travelled abroad in 2017; almost 10 percent of the population. The general assumption that Chinese tourists are focused solely on big European group tours, and using their precious vacation time only for shopping...

In 1982, a mere 7 percent of China’s population was obese. By 1992, that had risen to 15 percent and in 2012, the number of people clinically obese reached 300 million, according to the Chinese Ministry of Health. Famously lean...

Wow, your Chinese is very good”, remarked the supermarket checkout employee. “Your pronunciation is very standard, better than ours”, chimed in her giggling colleague on the adjacent cash register.“How long have you been in China?” “Longer than you”, I...

Motivation is the hunger that each of us have to go out and get what we desire. Each of our desires point us in the direction of our own individuality and purpose. Having a purpose gives us moral meaning...

A Nanjing lady, slightly advanced in years, was recently overheard to have asked her mixed-race grand daughter what she thought of her house in New Zealand. The little girl replied, “Well, it’s quite nice, but it’s a bit small,...

A contestant on Jiangsu TV dating show “If You Are The One”, shocked China a few years back when she famously said she would rather cry in a BMW car than laugh on the back of a bike. As...