Sustainability is an ugly word. Not for its meaning, but for the way politicians have been using it for years. The more cynical among us are now bound almost to switch off at its very mention. Not going in...
For most of August this year Beijing was unusually, eerily beautiful. Famous for the Forbidden City and China’s most prestigious universities, the capital city of China also holds a dubious reputation as a hotbed for pollution. And yet, for...
When the West thinks about China, the first things that come to mind are negative stereotypes; an uncontrollable hyper-capitalist economy wreaking havoc on the environment, corruption, and product and food safety scandals. The recent blasts in Tianjin have...
Despite teeth-grating airport security, Twitter-worthy traveller bad behaviour, and the occasional horrific lost-in-translation story, travelling and living abroad continues to be an eye opening, social media brag-worthy blast. Things can take a turn for the worse, though, when you...
In came the doc, accompanied by a small troupe of medical students who had pounced on the opportunity ever since discovering there was a foreigner in the hospital a few days prior. I was hoping to be out of...
Each country has their own birthing rituals and practices that shape their health industry, influencing its very nature as well as bringing forth institutions hitherto unheard of in the other parts of the world. In China, one needn’t look...
That Chinese people have a passion bordering almost on obsession for food is no secret, and as many of us quickly discover upon arriving, the variety of “local” dishes is about as plentiful as this country’s population, taking us...
Long term residents of Nanjing will be very familiar with Jiangxinzhou, commonly referred to in non-Chinese speaking communities as Grape Island; famed for its vineyards and an associated annual festival plus a way of life altogether more rustic in...
