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People’s Cinema; the Nail in Hollywood’s China Coffin?

The last thing anyone wants is another American saving the world. For the Chinese government, the last thing they want is the citizens of the People's Republic perceiving that another American is saving the world. It is this kind of...

Adopted Boy from Nanjing Attends Embassy CNY Bash in Washington

A New Year celebration at the Chinese Embassy in Washington Monday evening included the touching attendance of 70 American families who have one thing in common; they have all adopted a child from China, with one from our very...

Botanical Dogs Stay off Spring Festival Boredom in Nanjing

With all the Chinese New Year excitement finally over, it is now the time to work out what on earth to do over the next week. Nanjing's top brass is aware of this, and so for those of us...

“Nanjwitter Instajing”; Blocked Social Media Sites Promote Nanjing Tourism

Nanjing has joined the ranks of other cities in eastern China that have teamed up with an international public relations outfit to provide western social media content that promotes in-bound tourism. Chicago, Illinois, USA-based PHG Consulting is no stranger to...

Drunken Juliette Batters Romeo in Nanjing’s Hexi

A young intoxicated lady has spent a night at the pleasure of the Nanjing authorities after drunkenly laying into an imported car on display at a mall in the Hexi area of Nanjing. It was after a year-end company dinner...

Authorities Aim to “Eliminate Evil” in Gang Crackdown

To the north of Nanjing, a court in Xuzhou city has convicted 22 people of gang crime and sentenced them to jail and detention, while denouncing them as evil. During the open trial, the court heard this “mafia style”...

Nanjing Journalist On Trial for Picking Quarrels

Nanjing journalist Sun Lin, who goes by the name Jie Mu online, has appeared in a Nanjing court on charges of “incitement to subvert state power”, says a source close to him and reported by Radio Free Asia (RFA). Sun...

Surgeon Death Resurfaces “Overwork” Problems in China

The Chinese word Guòláosǐ (过劳死), loaned from the Japanese word Karōshi (過労死), means death from overwork, and recent history teaches us that China has, for some time now, suffered from such cases. In December of 2017, at the age of...

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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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