The Supplement

Something is immediately apparent upon crossing the border from Jiangsu into Zhejiang Province. A sudden deterioration in quality of road surface. And that happens at the border’s toll gate, where the Jiangsu government collects a slice of cash from every...

Cynics would have you that autonomous vehicles would never work in China; its roads too lawless, their users too reckless or malicious. Likewise for the enormous environmental but futile challenge confronting the planet; that shutting down the internal-combustion engine...

The extreme Adventurer & three Time World Record Holder who walked breadth of Mongolia; entire length of Madagascar, summiting its eight highest mountains; & the whole 6,363 KM of our Yangtze River, on almost giving up 5 days into...

Streets regale us of stories, reflecting warmth in the shadows of the changing times, telling the vicissitudes of life over time and space, and revealing the prosperity of our City; the grandest City of Nanjing, for all its wondrous weirdness. Beginning up north...

What on Earth happened to our attention span? Marketers used to say that you have 3 minutes to hold someone’s attention (when trying to sell them something). Now it appears that’s just 3 seconds. The question is, are short...

T’was a September day in Nanjing much like today. And like this year, it was also a year that had seen major flooding across much of China earlier that summer. But the day stood out for there being an...

Truly not often do you get to upstage Andy Warhol. And with an exhibition about flowers of all things. For there are very few exhibitions, if any, of floral still lifes on a scale that match that now on...

An enormous, faux-ceramic-baijiu urn greets visitors to the Yanghe Winery Culture Tourist Area in Suqian, Jiangsu Province.  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...