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Expat Graduates

With an increasing number of high school graduates deciding to attend university, it is those that spend their high school years immersed in the multicultural world of international schools that prosper greatly.  Despite some aspects of...

Choices Between Realities

Did you think about life after graduation before graduating from college? Lots of students in Nanjing Normal University have. The word “graduation” is a symbol of choices to be made; the start of something new. As...

Third Degree Graduate

In Chinese society, the great cultural importance put on education cannot be overstated. It is what most children have their lives based around; witness the many teenagers coming home on the metro late in the evening after cramming and...

Jiangsu is Football’s New Promised Land

Sheer pandemonium broke out in February this year when Brazilian superstar Alex Teixeira announced his arrival at Jiangsu Suning FC, the Chinese Super League (CSL) football club that has qualified this year for the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Champions...

Reverse Cultural Shock

“Welcome to Vancouver International Airport”, the pilot announced. I saw a ramshackle cluster of aging low-rise buildings which compared poorly with any of the train stations and airports I have visited in China. After the glitz...

Crazy Rich Chinese; @Children of the Yuan

Although they don’t know how to create wealth, they surely know how to show it off. The high profile, "Fuerdai" (富二代) or “Trust Fund Kids”, has become the most loathed group in this country, but that didn’t stop them...

Land of the 土u

As in most countries, in China there is a significant chunk of culture devoted to landowner hatred. Just as they look down upon their subjects, so in China the common people shall pour ridicule on their outlandish, pretentious ways....

Latest News

German Chemical Giant BASF to Make Chip Materials in Nanjing by 2028

German chemical giant BASF will build a semiconductor materials plant in Nanjing, with start-up expected by the end of...

China Creates an X-Class of Train Numbers for Services above 350KM/H

China is giving its fastest trains a letter of their own. A new X prefix, read xīn (新, "new"),...

China’s Brain Banks Need Donors as Human Tissue Reveals Dementia Clues

China’s human brain banks are still struggling to attract donors more than a decade after the first facilities opened,...

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