Without empathy, we would be robots, merely existing without the ability to connect. Sure, parents would still take care of their children and we would go on with our day-to-day lives, but there would never again be a shoulder...
Imagine it’s Sunday afternoon, you exit Suguo with your week’s worth of groceries dangling off your arms. You stand at the intersection watching the faded red man within the traffic light. The numbers beneath him decrease, then he is...
A satirical play was performed live in Nanjing, during the month of May. Alleged to be the first cross-cultural and bilingual play ever performed on stage in the Yangtze Delta area. It consists of two main parts that overarches...
Worn leather bags, smooth porcelain, rough coins, rusty fans; this is all some may think is sold in Shop Number 34. People have different connections to the word “vintage” when they hear it. While some may have thoughts...
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...
