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Enjoy International Performances at the Wuzhen Theatre Festival

If you are one who enjoys your entertainment from a stage, then you best get yourself down to Wuzhen for the 2018 Theatre Festival. Running from 18-28 October, the festival boasts days filled with laughter and tears, drama and...

Blues Legend Zhang Ling to Sweep through Nanjing on 13 October

Nanjing is in for a treat on 13 October, as Beijing-based Blues legend Zhang Ling comes to the city to perform at The Purple Mountain (TPM) drama space. China's rock legend Cui Jian once said, "I have always doubted whether...

Travelling for National Day? We’re Not, Here’s Why

With city plants tended to, trimmed and pruned, thousands of flags flying and Tiananmen Square glorified, today is the most patriotic of days for the Chinese nation, National Day. The outside world, however, braces itself for Golden Week, given...

Nanjing International School Celebrates 25 Years

Friday 28 September, 2018, Nanjing International School (NIS) celebrated the close of its 25th Anniversary year, by hosting a school party that included, parades, music, aerial photographs, a circle of peace and over 1,000 cupcakes for students, staff and...

International Children’s Music Festival Comes to Nanjing

Kids of Nanjing, get set to rock! The much anticipated Hand in Hand International Children’s Music Festival is coming to Nanjing. Hand in Hand was founded by American journalist Rebecca Kanthor and her husband Liu Jian,  a Chinese musician and...

Shanghai Bus Kills Two Pedestrians, Injures 1, on Nanjing Xi Lu

At 8:30 am this morning, 21 September, 2018, a bus in downtown Shanghai knocked down three pedestrians at the intersection of Shaanxi Bei Lu and Nanjing Xi Lu. Two subsequently died. Police officers and firefighters quickly rushed to the scene...

Nanjing Student Fined 10k for Selling Faster Broadband on Campus

Dissatisfied with his vocational college’s slow Internet and the campus night-time disconnection of the network, one student, Yan Xindi, decided he had had enough and purchased a broadband account on Chinese major online shopping platform, Taobao. He then sold...

Yangtze Nanjing Contemporary Art Fair Begins in October

To be held from 11 to 14 October, the Yangtze Contemporary Art Fair will be a professional and high-quality art fair held in Nanjing in a relaxed and comfortable atmosphere promoting in-depth communication between collectors and galleries.  The Fair also...

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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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