The Supplement

Doing it the Hard Way; Nanjing’s Own (Half Foreign) Cider Brand

Theoretically, Chinese people should absolutely love cider. Theoretically. But of course they don’t. Or rather, they didn’t. And seeking a spot near the top of those emerging tastes is a home grown cider brand, of Chinese and American descent. Theoretically,...

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...

The Visiting Professor

One of the great joys of leaving my post as a senior manager in a British university 6 years ago was the freedom to take up some of the many invitations I had been receiving for years to visit...

Down to the Stalls; Studying the Surge in China’s Street Markets

If you want to get to know a city in China, you must visit the street markets in that city, where the stalls are small but big enough for various local-style goods, where the stall owners are by nature...

How Nanjing Ruins Every Other City

I grew up in a small town in Burgundy, France, called Nevers. It was the kind of unstimulating place that every youth would leave in a rush as soon as they graduated high school, which was pretty much what...

Nanjing’s Cultural Attractions; Unity through Destruction?

Upon the relics of our ancestors, we strew technology and investment in the name of reinvigoration. Then, on those formerly dusty sites, we gladly bestow the brand-new architecture with blossoming light bulbs and vining glass ornaments.    我们以复兴的名义,在我们祖先的遗迹上洒满了技术和投资。然后,在那些曾经尘土飞扬的场地上,我们很高兴地为全新的建筑赋予了绽放的灯泡和藤蔓玻璃装饰品。 Such is how...

Taking on the Taklamakan

The word “Taklamakan” is said to mean “Place of No Return”. That China is now embarking on the final section of a railway line that will encircle the entire desert, by 2022 it will be possible to turn that...

Lonely Islands; the Outbreak Seen from Within a “Bubble”

“My parents, who are doctors, say that the ‘pneumonia’ is more serious than we think”, said my friend, frowning. It was late January, and she in her face mask looked overcautious beside the fashionable ladies in Xinjiekou, who strode...

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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,...

Car-Bed Campers Turn Hotel Car Parks into Free Showers and Toilets

Chinese road trippers are swapping hotel rooms for the back seats of their own cars, folding them flat into...

China’s Metro Map Grows by Almost 65km Ahead of National Day

China’s National Day holiday has arrived with three cities adding new metro links. Nanjing, Qingdao and Changchun have opened...

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