HRH E II R, Queen Elizabeth the Second. Her name has appeared in these pages twice before now.
And why would a Chinese tea column be concerned with the former monarch of the United Kingdom?
Actually, Strainer first mentioned her as...
Foreigners in Nanjing will most likely be familiar with this building. It sits at 155 Baixia Lu almost next to the visa office, across Taiping Nan Lu. Many might have wondered at its architectural beauty while waiting for their...
King-Sun Fu (傅京孫) was the Chinese-American computing engineer who we should either thank or curse multiple times a day, his work having laid the foundations for today’s ubiquitous black and white miniature chessboards; the QR code.
King-Sun Fu（傅京孙）是一位华美计算工程师，我们应该每天多次感谢或诅咒他，他的工作为当今无处不在的黑白微型棋盘奠定了基础；二维码。
Born in Nanjing...
It’s no secret that Nanjing is awash with venues that are coffee shops by day and cocktail bars by night. Indeed, it would be difficult to avoid them. Many are rather smart and reflect a global trend which I...
There can be few more sure-fire ways to create a successful business than to open a hot pot restaurant. Ubiquitous, universally loved and inexplicably popular all year round, hot pot is the go to for family fun or a...
Noël Lee was a globetrotting pianist and composer who also served for over 3 years during World War II and had a particular passion for the study of music for piano four hands.
Noël Lee是一位环球钢琴家和作曲家，在第二次世界大战期间也服役了3年多，对钢琴四手音乐的研究特别热情。
Born in Nanjing on 25 December,...
The Stroop Test is a psychological test designed to demonstrate how closely human attention is attracted to the written word.
For adult readers, textual information trumps other forms of visual information, including colour information, in provoking the brain. We could...
The timing and purpose were perhaps not the most fortunate. Opened in time for the 2014 Youth Olympics, named the Nanjing Eye and hot on the heels of the London Eye opening for the 2012 Olympics, comparisons and criticisms...
