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The Law and The Chinese Outdoor

In recent years, outdoor travel has become a new lifestyle in China. People tend to go outdoors to experience something different from daily life. It is not just about adventure and challenges, but also to manifest the expression, “To outdoor,...

Chinese Women’s Football; Potential & Pitfall

The first Women’s Football World Cup (WWC) ever held was, believe it or not, hosted by China. Twelve countries participated in the 1991 WWC event that effectively changed the history of women’s football. Seven World Cups...

Who Do You Serve?

Having clarity or confusion in answering this simple question will either drive all the right behaviour or leave you waffling in executing your daily mission in life. Some of you may remember the lyrics of an...

Virtual Art Exhibition vs. Child Poverty Relief

For 10 consecutive days this summer, Aha School took 130,000 Chinese children on a virtual tour of some of the world’s greatest museums, from the Louvre to the Guggenheim, the Vatican to Tokyo’s National Science Museum. ...

Learning to ̶F̶l̶y̶ Fail

It was 17 December, 1903, when a controlled and powered flying machine, built by the Wright brothers, called the “Wright Flyer 1”, on its third attempt of the day, took off, achieving a maximum distance and altitude of approximately...

How Pure is Your Environment?

I find living in China causes me to be acutely aware of so many things I never thought I had to worry about back home. However, as I became more aware of the need for pure air, I began...

Archi-Capital; Gems in Nanjing

It both surprises and delights me that after living in Nanjing for 2 years I still regularly come across unexpected and intriguing architecture on the streets I tread every day. That is not because I walk head down, consumed...

A Global View of Chinese Football & its Planning

In 2004, FIFA recognised China as the birthplace of football; Zibo, in Shandong province in fact, where a sport named Cuju has been played since the 3rd century BCE; one with a ball and hands not permitted. Nowadays, there...

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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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