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The Nanjinger Back Issues – Volume XV

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Exploring Cool Highlands; 2,000KM by Bike in Western China

How do you best combine fresh air, green pastures, ancient Buddhist grottoes, Tibetan culture, mountain passes and physical activity with photography? On a bike trip through Gansu and Sichuan. And here I was.  如何最好地将新鲜空气、绿色牧场、古老佛教石窟、西藏文化、山口和体育活动与摄影结合起来?骑自行车穿越甘肃和四川。我就在这里。 Lanzhou, capital of Gansu Province, can easily...

Nanjinger Kitchen; 10 Sure Fire Hit Recipes with Foreigners

It is of course wrong to stereotype. Nevertheless, the fact remains that there are quite a number of Chinese dishes that foreigners in the Middle Kingdom are more or less guaranteed to enjoy. Many also come close to enjoying...

On this Day in Chinese History; 29 February

This day, 29 February, in 1980, navigation between Shanghai and the Port of Portland in the United States was officially opened. The Port had been engaged in maritime trade with Tianjin in China and other places since the late...

From Court to Client; the Life of Lawyers on the Move

As soon as a person wakes up, there are so many things to be dealt with on an everyday basis. This could be said true for lawyers practicing litigation or for transactional lawyers. In both cases, it is essential...

Macau; Convergence of Catholicism & Global Cardinal to 100% Unashamed Capitalism

John Waite was belting out, “Missing You”, as we stepped into a taxi outside Macau International Airport. That, along with the fact that the vehicle was a Toyota Crown, affirmed that Macau is similar to Hong Kong, the Philippines...

Take Not Lightly the Standard Operating Procedures

Since time immemorial, humanity has organised itself in to teams and followed unspoken and written collective rules to obtain the maximum results from work. The emergence of capitalist relations in society and the consolidation of means of production became...

On this Day in Chinese History; 26 November

This day, 26 November, in 1979, when speaking about market economies during a meeting with Encyclopedia Britannica and the Institute of East Asian Studies at McGill University in Canada, he said that the purpose of the Chinese revolution is...

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Shanghai’s Railway Map Shifts East; Cross City to Hongqiao soon but a Memory

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Shiseido Sues Aldi over a ¥24.9 Primer that Resembles Its ¥540 Rival

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