Thinking of heading out to see the Chinese-New-Year lights and lanterns at Confucius Temple or Laomendong? Advance reservations are now necessary, as authorities attempt to keep both numbers and COVID at bay.
想去夫子庙或老门洞看新年灯笼吗？现在需要提前预订，因为当局试图控制人数和新冠疫情。
It’s been a crazy time of year since...
Waiting here in Nanjing for news of flights to exotic destinations has become tedious to say the least; many locals now have expired passports! So there is joy at news there shall very soon be flights between Nanjing and...
Nanjing now has a critical blood shortage, with donations having declined sharply of late. At present, those coming forward to give blood number only dozens every day. Considering our city’s overall needs, this is bad news indeed.
南京目前血液严重短缺，献血量近来急剧下降。目前，每天前来献血的人数只有几十人。考虑到我们城市的整体需求，这确实是个坏消息。
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Frequenters of their local wet market in Nanjing may have noticed a trend of late. The once go-to option for quality that’s both fresh and cheap has recently become borderline expensive. Primarily, that’s down to two factors; COVID and...
Former Dean and Painter of the Nanjing Academy of Arts, Bao Bin (保彬), passed away at 09:48 on 2 January, 2023. He was 87. The Baidu Baike (China’s Wikipedia equivalent) entry for Bao has today been made greyscale in...
Nanjing’s Confucius Temple is renown nationwide for its new year’s lanterns. But that definition extends to the western new year, bringing joy yesterday evening to revellers as they said goodbye to 2022 and wondered what the next 12 months...
Saying goodbye to 2022 in Nanjing, and indeed in all of China, can be seen as being punctuated by the dramatic turn in the fortunes dealt our way by the year’s final weeks. It's a turnaround begging reflection, perhaps...
We’re at the stage in Nanjing where many, with varying degrees of success, have managed to fight through a bout of COVID. But in recovery mode, there nevertheless remain questions as to unforeseen side effects, answered today by two...
