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Distilling the Conversation; Drunken Apes Drive Tourism of Today

An enormous, faux-ceramic-baijiu urn greets visitors to the Yanghe Winery Culture Tourist Area in Suqian, Jiangsu Province.  江苏省宿迁市洋河酒厂文化旅游区,一个巨大的人造陶瓷白酒瓮在迎接游客。 It’s a metaphor for the size of that which lies dormant inside the urn. And yes, it’s full (of you know what). The...

What’s the Colour of Time? Of Direction? Of Space? Of Numbers?

Perceptions: cultural, historical, and biological. Our perceptions colour our experiences, influence our judgments and shape our interactions with other people. 感知:文化、历史和生物学。 我们的感知影响了我们的经历,影响了我们的判断,并塑造了我们与他人的互动。 An oft-quoted anecdote runs that in 1972, Chinese premier Zhou Enlai was asked about the impact of the French...

Changing the Modus Operandi of Personal Urban Transport

What's your idea of getting to work each morning? Getting on that half-broken moped you've had for years and just hoping it makes it? Or maybe you're one of the lucky ones who gets to sit in traffic for...

Never Ever Have I Ever

I am moving house again. Unwillingly, for the first time ever. My landlord wants to fix all the leaks and cracks and damp and then live there, so we must once again decamp. For the first time ever, I...

Chinese People will Never EVER do that; Yeah, Right!

New mothers in today’s China are very likely to be seen pushing a pram while looking at their iPhone. 在当今中国的新妈妈们很可能会看到她们一边推着手机一边看着她们的iPhone。 Nothing strange about that, you might think. But let’s back up a little. 你可能会想,这没什么奇怪的。 但让我们退后一点。 When I moved from Shanghai to Nanjing in...

True Evol’s Kiss; Prince Charming Awaits outside the Cave…

Makayla sat on her broomstick hovering over the dark twisted trees below, wondering how they were still standing all these years later. She once again, thought back to that time, lazily trying to recall if there were any other...

Inside Nanjing’s Music Scene; Meeting the Movers & Shakers (Part 1)

Stepping into the coffee house, the first sight I clap eyes on is a young lady sitting by the window. With her hair dyed brown and blue, and gorgeous eyes, she is Liang Zhu (梁竹), one of the lead...

“ESG Investment Pioneer City” Nanjing Expands Investment Network

Nanjing, the capital of China's Jiangsu province, is striving to become a pioneer city for ESG (Environment, Social, Governance) investment, with its network of like-minded enterprises continuing to expand. Just four months after the inaugural salon, the "Nanjing Wuxiang...

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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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