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Online Graveyards a Hit this Tombsweeping Festival

In the early morning of 31 March, Ma Cancan, who studies in Nanjing’s Xianlin University Town, lightly clicked her mouse to build an "Online Memorial Hall" for her deceased grandparents, to make up for the regret she felt at...

Young Nanjing Man Redesigns Computer for Aston Martin

With E-sports becoming more and more popular among young people, professional players are increasingly using cool-looking computers, to the degree that one young man from Nanjing has built an award-winning design studio to satisfy demand. Wang Jiayu has been modifying...

Design a Qipao Contest; Be Inspired in Suzhou’s Cheongsam Town

A new competition is realising an opportunity to allow individuals to use influences from their own historic heritage of creativity, manifesting their inspiration through a recently launched event in Suzhou’s “Cheongsam Town”. In a nutshell, the contest is a chance...

From Globally Celebrated to Hidden Gems; Top Nanjing Bookstores

A positive plethora of bookshops has emerged in Nanjing in recent years. For good reason too; the government is pitching in as part of a wider effort for the Chinese populace to become better read. For the bookstore owners,...

Q: When is an Emoji a Cultural Offence? A: When Banned by WeChat

Emojis of 16 cultural relics officially launched by the Gansu Museum have gone viral online, part of a campaign to "make cultural relics alive". The emojis are designed to be dynamic and accompanied by buzzwords on the Internet.  甘肃博物馆正式推出的16件文物的表情符号在网上疯传,是“让文物活着”运动的一部分。 表情符号被设计成动态的,并伴随着互联网上的流行语。 As...

Nanjing Spring Book Fair Returns; Bigger and Better for 2019

Are you searching for new book recommendations? The Nanjing Spring Book Fair just might give you some ideas. As the Nanjing summer heat grows near, the opportunity has arisen to find your new coffee companion, with the city's annual...

Cats’ Return to Nanjing Highlight of Grand Theatre Summer Season

The Jiangsu Grand Theatre’s 2019 summer season conference was held last week, upstairs in the theatre’s multi-functional hall, in which was revealed its new performance season will begin tomorrow, 28 March, and last until 31 August. Audiences can look forward...

Nanjing Foreign Affairs’ Day Hailed as Great Success

Saturday 23 March, 2019, saw the official opening of one of the most influential organisations relevant to the Nanjing international community, the Nanjing Foreign Affairs Service Association (NFASA), in Xianlin in the city’s Qixia District.  The ceremony was held before...

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Baby on Board in High Speed Train Emergency Delivered by Urologist into Nanjing

Mid-journey between Shanghai and Nanjing, a routine high-speed train service turned into an improvised delivery room, when a lady...

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:...

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