Zhumadian has one of those place names that seems almost too plain to be real. “Stop the horse. Find a shop.” It sounds less like a city than an instruction given at the end of a long road. But...
Jining is one of those Shandong cities that does not shout first and explain later. It has weight because of what it contains: Confucius and Mencius country, canal heritage, lake country and a commercial city that has spent centuries...
Huaibei arrives in the imagination as a coal city, blackened and blunt, but the real place in northern Anhui is stranger and brighter; it sits where Jiangsu, Henan and Anhui meet, carries more than 4,000 years of history and...
With 30,823 spectators at the recent match between Xuzhou and Zhenjiang, so the popularity of the Jiangsu City League is also being explained by the appeal lying in the ordinariness of its players, working full-time jobs by day, training...
