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Wildcards Secured for Nanjing IAAF World Indoor Championships

Nanjing is rearing its sporting prowess once again, as 11 names from all over the world have been announced as securing wildcards for next year’s World Indoor Athletics Championships that are to be held in the city. After the sixth...

10 Top Free Springtime Tourist Attractions in Nanjing

The season of spring blossoms is approaching. With all the rain Nanjing is experiencing at the moment, this year's blossoming is sure to be a fine one indeed. It therefore comes as great news that 47 tourist attractions in...

Rainbow Flatulence, or How Online Millennials Talk to Each Other

Few things are such eye openers than than youth’s use of language when communicating with each other on social media. Such also offers a fascinating snapshot of today’s society as well as being an essential tool for keeping up...

Da Vinci, Michelangelo & Raffaello Exhibition in Nanjing

Art lovers will be delighted to learn that the masters of the craft are back once again in Nanjing for “Renaissance Masters: The Art of Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo and Raffaello at Nanjing Museum”. At the exhibition, see 27 works...

Vertical Forest of Nanjing Grows; Learning from Bosco Verticale

A unique, for the moment, construction project in Nanjing is hoped by some to become the norm for sustainable urban development. Welcome to the Nanjing Green Towers. An unassuming building site in a backdrop of carbon copy towers is a...

High School Pupils in Nanjing Launch Feminist Literary Magazine

“Dawn” is the first appearance of light in the morning, the beginning of a new day, a perfect allusion to the rise of feminism in China. As feminist movements spread across the globe, so the notion in China has...

Valentines, Blind Dates, Marriage Market or Plain Old Socialising?

“A woman’s virtue lies in her lack of knowledge”, goes an old Chinese saying. Such is still a common traditional view held among elderly people who gather in a so called “marriage market” or “blind date corner”, where advertisements posted on walls...

Top Tips for Taking in Nanjing’s Traditional Lantern Festival

It is the time of year when a wonderful opportunity to learn about both traditional Chinese and Nanjing culture presents itself, in the form of the annual Lantern Festival that takes place in the first month of the Chinese...

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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...

Shanghai’s Railway Map Shifts East; Cross City to Hongqiao soon but a Memory

For years, Shanghai’s high-speed rail map has pulled passengers towards Hongqiao. That balance is beginning to change. New stations...

Shiseido Sues Aldi over a ¥24.9 Primer that Resembles Its ¥540 Rival

Shiseido has sued Aldi China, the product's manufacturer and an Aldi Shanghai store operator over unfair competition, arguing that...

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