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Jiangsu in Spotlight at London Book Fair

Global cultural understandings of Jiangsu province took a considerable leap forward Tuesday, with the launch of a series of English language books about Chinese culture at the London Book Fair 2016. Based in Nanjing, Phoenix Publishing...

Street Cleaners Receive Philanthropic Noodles

Hand-pulled noodles, tasty broth with fresh ingredients, fast service offered by Muslim waitresses. You must have been to one of those Lanzhou beef Noodles Restaurants (兰州牛肉拉面) around the corner. But having a bowl of noodles for...

Draconian Driving; New Test Laws Permit Private Instructors

Neither massive traffic jams nor drivers with road rage is able to stop Chinese people from getting behind the wheel. Last year Nanjing granted 262,000 driving licenses, bringing the total number of licensed drivers in the city to 2...

From Coma to Gym; “It’s My Life”!

“If you don’t go to the gym in March, you will cry in April” is a modern Chinese expression adapted from a famous compilation of Han dynasty poetry. So it has come to be that Nanjing’s fitness centres are...

Official Opening Crowns British Schools Foundation Music Festival

In a terribly British way, right down to the red, white and blue bunting, it was a time of reflection at the British School of Nanjing Friday, as the official opening of the school's new campus took place, marking...

AlphaGo Lacks “Character”; Google Unlikely to Take Mochou Lake

On Tuesday this week, Google’s Artificial Intelligence program AlphaGo completed a feat many thought would be safe for decades into the future; it beat human Go champion Lee Sedol in the complex, centuries-old game of strategy and won a...

Suzhou elements light up Jinji Lake half marathon

The 7th Suzhou Jinji Lake International Half Marathon kicked off on Mar 13. A record-breaking number of 30,968 runners from 41 countries and regions around the world participated in the event. Wang Yan, a 30-year-old veteran runner from Shanghai who...

Buying Power of “She Economy” Pushes Women’s Day Sales’ Skyhigh

As the world marked the observance of International Women’s Day yesterday with women’s rights issues topping the agenda for many, women in Nanjing exercised their very own rights of another kind to the full, namely to shop until they...

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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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