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Driverless Bus! Test Drive Shows How to Save the World in Wuxi

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...

In Conversation with He who Walked Length of Yangtze… Ash Dykes

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...

Top Tales to Tell; What are Nanjing’s Weirdest Street Names?

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. 街道充满故事,在时代变迁的阴影中折射出温暖,诉说着时空的沧桑,展现着城市的繁华;南京最宏伟的城市,尽管它有很多奇妙的怪异之处。 Beginning up north...

Who Agrees Douyin (TikTok) is a Disease? The Jury is Out (ish)

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...

“Murder on the Orient Express”; What’s the Nanjing Connection?

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...

Claude Monet Stars but No Such Thing as Absolute in Art

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...

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...

“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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