With no effort being spared this year at raising the international level of Nanjing, new non-profit organisations are popping up all over the city, in all divisions of society; organisations such as the Nanjing Foreign Affairs Service Association (NFASA).
今年不遗余力地将南京提升到国际水平，新的非营利组织正在城市各处出现，社会各阶层；如南京外交服务协会（NFASA）等组织。
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Are you familiar with the Chinese term “yŏuhăo chéngshì”?Perhaps Sister Cities or Twin Towns?
你熟悉中文术语“yŏuhăo chéngshì”吗？ 也许是姐妹城市或双城？
When two cities from different countries form a relationship, it is formally recognised as such after both head officials of the cities meet and...
China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) aims to bring infrastructure investment, leading to massive increases in trade, to regions along the former Silk Road, and far beyond. Trouble is, more than a few extra uninvited guests are along for...
"This shouldn’t be here. … This species has been extinct since the Cretaceous period", Paleobotanist, Ellie, in the movie “Jurassic Park” notes while studying a leaf she had just found. Imagine what she might have said had she just...
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.
很难想象中国奢华的日子；南京的浮华和魅力的口袋，在一切都变得更糟之前，只是在一个世纪后陶醉于它的复兴。
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...
