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Local Firm Brings Audio Visual Control Services to the World

Nanjing-based Audio, Video and Control solutions and services company PIONE, sat down with reporters from 1865’s Jiangsu Cultural Industry Association, to chat about 21st century innovative dedication in the audio/video industry in China. With only ¥5,000 to their names, founder...

Chess Brings International Culture to All at Jinling Library

There are few things that unite the peoples of the world as much as the game of chess. In all its forms, whether it be Xiangqi and its Japanese, Korean or Indian counterparts, or the more widespread international chess,...

Nanjing Graduate’s Runaway Online Music Video Success

If the music of yesterday urgently needs to be preserved, the technology of today; namely, the Internet, may give it a chance. Liu Qingyao, has seized this opportunity. Part of golden age of “network musicians”, she creates works at...

Six Dynasties Museum Reveals Roman Empire Comparisons

Step into Nanjing’s Oriental Metropolitan Museum, and immediately take a look to your right. Note the chronologies of emperors and nations, comparing the time period to that of the Roman Empire, for there are many similarities between it and...

Biaoqing; Code Words for Young Chinese Netizens

Fu Yuanhui, an ordinary Chinese female swimmer, was catapulted to fame during the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio. However, she won great success for exaggerated facial expressions rather than her performance in the competition. Chinese Internet users combined her photos...

Soar into the Skies with Uni Students’ Stunt Kites

Stunt kite-flying is a fashionable sport, and quite a physical one, requiring much strength and energy. It was for these reasons that Li Jianzhong, a Nanjing university staffer, opened up the Kite Association of Nanjing University to students in...

Cartoon Character Colours City Calling Card

A little boy with sausage lips, small eyes and a school uniform is the unofficial city face of Nanjing. His name is “A Mei” (阿槑) and he is the main character in a video called “Memories of South Nanjing”....

Real Lives; An Ordinary Busker in Nanjing

It was a typical Friday evening outside the Zhujianglu station, lights lit and road busy. People coming and going, a young man with light denim jacket and Dr. Marten boots arranged his equipment; a guitar, a loudspeaker and a...

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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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