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Warding off Evil; The Chinese Zodiacal Traditions that Prevail

Lies and deceit. That is my life! A few days after my 16th birthday I discovered a horrifying revelation. Something that changed my entire life. All these years I thought I was a Rooster but… I am a Monkey.  It...

An End to Cruelty? Nanjing Leads China in Push for Cultured Meat

Abbatoir. One of those things we wish didn’t exist, perhaps something we hope we could uninvent. But that reality may in fact come to be in the not so distant future, with scientists in Nanjing among those at the...

Asking Ourselves “What is truth” in a Post-COVID World?

Certain truths seem inimitable, like: Age is just a number.  某些真理似乎不可模仿,比如:年龄只是一个数字。 Wrong! Age is a word. 错了! 年龄是一个词。 Friedrich Nietzsche helpfully explains in Human, All too Human (1878), “Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.”  弗里德里希·尼采在《人性,太人性化》(1878年)中解釋說:「信念是真理比谎言更危险的敵人。」 Postmodernist, post structuralist, post “Life Jim, but...

Honestly; Are You Spending too Much on a College Application?

The College Admissions Bribery Scandal of 2019, known as the Operation Varsity Blues Scandal, involved celebrities using their financial power of over US$25 million over 8 years to hire SAT takers to fake SAT scores, bribe coaches and college...

Next Stop, Honesty; Pick up a Souvenir on Your Way Out

Apart from some lecture from whatever moral authority, can you really point out why exactly honesty is good? 除了任何道德权威的一些讲座外,你真的能指出为什么诚实是好的吗? To answer this question, let’s go back to ancient China. The Warring States. Chaos and turbulence. A determined philosopher who trekked across...

Water; Meeting Point of Chinese Philosophy and Martial Arts


"Nothing in the worldIs as soft and yielding as water.Yet for dissolving the hard and inflexible,Nothing can surpass it." Preeminent Chinese philosopher, Laozi (老子) The Old Boy, Laozi, is one of China’s most renowned philosophers. Hailing from Quren, a hamlet in...

Water, Water, Everywhere, Nor any Drop to Drink

While we speed along in a high-speed train on our way to Shanghai through the water towns of southern Jiangsu Province; Wuxi, Suzhou et al, it’s sobering to think that a little more than a decade ago, not only...

Following in Other’s Water Footprints? Time to Reduce!

Chesna Goel from Nanjing International School reminds us on the importance of reducing our water footprint. 南京国际学校的Chesna Goel提醒我们减少水足迹的重要性。 “Don’t! We don’t want your money; just get us some food and water, please!” “不要! 我们不想要你的钱;请给我们拿点食物和水!” Last year during the holidays, my family and I...

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Baby on Board in High Speed Train Emergency Delivered by Urologist into Nanjing

Mid-journey between Shanghai and Nanjing, a routine high-speed train service turned into an improvised delivery room, when a lady...

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:...

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