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Live Australian Cattle Arrive for Slaughter North of Nanjing

Among other Western delicacies such as red wine, cigars, cheese and chocolate, beef is fast becoming a staple for China’s middle-upper class. Demand has always been present in China for beef, however, prices have always been just too high. So...

Nanjing Woman Receives Double IphoneX Refund

Apple has reportedly given a Nanjing woman, who only goes by the name of Yan, a refund on not one, but two faulty IphoneXs. After activating and configuring the phone’s facial recognition software, the woman’s colleague was apparently able to...

New Dimensions in Testimony Premieres in Massacre Memorial Hall

As part of the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the Nanjing Massacre, USC Shoah Foundation will introduce its first Mandarin-language New Dimensions in Testimony interactive survivor testimony at the Nanjing Memorial Hall in Nanjing, China on Dec. 13. Center...

An Emmy and Global TV Debut Raise Massacre Awareness Abroad

Nanjing student, who is studying at Columbia University, has won an Emmy for her one-minute microfilm Nanjing Peacemaker. Luo Yiyun shot the film using only her cellphone, a selfie stick and US$100. Luo’s film beat 200 other competitors worldwide. She...

Nanjing Massacre@80; The Fate of John Rabe

While John Rabe was living through one of the greatest acts of mass violence of World War II, his employers at Siemens China Company had no clue what he was doing. The Japanese had censored communication to the outside world,...

Nanjing Massacre@80; War’s Post-Massacre, Irreversible Effects

As soon as the Japanese troops arrived, Minnie Vautrin began to hear about the rapes. Vautrin, the optimistic American missionary introduced earlier this week, had stayed behind during the 1937 Nanjing Massacre, in order manage a...

Nanjing Massacre@80; John Rabe, a Nazi Stands Up to the Japanese

Today, likely at around 10 am, and continuing for quite some time, an urgent cry will ring out across Nanjing. The air raid sirens that warned local people of incoming Japanese bombers will once again wail, as they do...

Nanjing Massacre@80; Professor Preparing for War, Minnie Vautrin

Minnie Vautrin’s mission was to educate the girls and women of China, and she was well suited to that task. History, however, will remember her, not for the women she educated, but for the lives she saved during the...

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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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