Westerners are likely aware that pay discrepancies are just one of the many gender issues that are currently in the spotlight. In Australia, for example, women take home on average A$26,000 less than men per year. As Hollywood big-leagues...
It is both fitting and ironic that the canola oil fields surrounding Nanjing’s “Slow City” in Gaochun district are also home to a recently completed facility that is quite the very opposite of slow. For this is the new...
First love leaves a mark on your heart and sense of wonder in your soul, or in this case a somewhat addictive desire to taste and experience. During my first stay in China, I fell hard for Coco’s pearl...
If a Chinese child returns home to announce his or her decision to pursue art as a potential career, 9 out of 10 parents would have a fit and try everything in their power to sabotage their child’s diaphanous...
My heart sunk a few fathoms when I learned that I was to cover the international poetry event organised by the Nanjing Youth League for National Youth Day. Despite my degree in English, I don’t have a poetic bone...
Classical music competitions, together with badminton and chess are where Chinese children seem to excel, almost prodigy like. So it comes as no surprise that the 11th International Youth Art Festival and Jiangsu Youth Piano Open Competition will kick...
International Spice, a successful comedy group in Nanjing, is proud to introduce its very first bilingual play, The Willing Take the Bait. The show will take place in Nanjing over the first two weekends in May.
The Willing Take the...
But once a year, the heavyweights in the Jiangsu world of arts and crafts gather for a smorgasboard of backslapping and celebration of what is, after all, an oft-ignored corner of culture. Taking place in the weeks prior to...
