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Money Talks (vii); Rest Assured to Survive then Thrive

During our lifetimes, we strive to enjoy, excel and succeed, buying property, making investments for growth and purchasing trophies of our success in the way of holidays, activities, latest technology, cars and jewellry. Of course, all of these things...

Maps & Boundaries; The Greatest Human Fictions

Alexander Von Humboldt. Carl Ritter. Alfred Russel Wallace. Paul Vidal de La Blache. Jared Diamond. Yifu Tuan. David Harvey. Milton Santos.  亚历山大·冯·洪堡。 卡尔·里特。 阿尔弗雷德·拉塞尔·华莱士。 保罗·维达尔·德拉·布拉什。 贾里德·戴蒙德。 Yifu Tuan。 大卫·哈维。 米尔顿·桑托斯。 All of these geographers spent the greater part of the 18th,...

Phonology VS Geography; We are Where We Come from

I admit it, I’m a bit of a language nerd. One of my friends and a previous colleague of mine often sends me language memes and I get quite passionate in teaching my A-Level English Language class. In that...

Finless Porpoise Protection Helps Angel to Keep on Smiling

You may be tired of hearing it on the news, every time you press the remote control. Climate change is a serious issue that has been plaguing our society for decades; its effects adding massive levels of greenhouse gases...

Geopoetics’ Standpoint on Sustainability

As an English teacher, I have to fight my natural urge to mock and demean geography, at least as a school subject. 作为一名英语老师,我必须抵制嘲笑和贬低地理的自然冲动,至少作为一门学校科目。  It is all too easy to dismiss it as “colouring in maps” and quizzes about flags, (although I...

Looking for a Home… “I am Lost. Can You Help Me?”

Leaving Pakistan, she smiled back at the no-nonsense woman at the security checkpoint who waved her through, “Mashallah, your outfit is beautiful, sister!”, she exclaimed. “I hope you come back soon.” She thought how 10 years ago, she didn’t...

Inside Nanjing’s Music Scene; Meeting the Movers & Shakers (Part 5)

It was the third time that I have arranged to meet Fang Rui (方锐), but the last two meetings were both cancelled due to my unreasonable course arrangements in extracurricular classes. But anyway, Fang and I met at the...

Forget Sanya! Catch a Wave in Wanning; China’s Capital of Surf

Our taxi driver said, more or less, “You gotta be kidding”, as he turned the car onto the jungle path. 我们的出租车司机或多或少地说,「你一定是在开玩笑”,他把车开到丛林小路上。 It had been a 2.5 hour drive from Haikou International Airport in Hainan; not short but nothing compared to the...

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Iranians in China become more Visible than Countable

These things often start, not with a statistic, but with a voice; Persian heard in a lift, a WeChat...

Why Chinese Men Can’t Quit; Smoking, Face and the State

China has 300 million smokers, nearly a third of the world's total. The imbalance between the sexes is stark:...

US Dept of Justice Says Nanjing Firm Hacked NASA, Senate & More

A sharp new cyber case has put a Nanjing company at the centre of a much wider political row....

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