“What on Earth is that?”, is the question to most commonly escape a person’s mouth upon first glimpse of the Jinling Library.
“那到底是什么？”，是人们第一次看到金陵图书馆时最常想出口而出的问题。
For good reason; if Nanjing has any structure more befitting of a place on another world (and there...
Li Guoding (李国鼎), known as Li Kwoh-ting in Taiwan, transformed the island from an economy based on agriculture to the world’s leading supplier of semiconductors. No wonder he’s referred to as Taiwan's "godfather of science and technology".
李国鼎，在台湾被称为李国鼎，将该岛从以农业为基础的经济转变为世界领先的半导体供应商。 难怪他被称为台湾的“科技教父”。
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True to our promise last month, in this issue we visit the other half of the Jieniu (解牛) empire’s western eateries in Nanjing; Pink Cutie, located in the recently-opened D9 block of mainly F&B establishments, opposite 1912 across Taiping...
Malt & Hop in the Gulou district was my favourite craft beer bar in Nanjing. I last visited around a year ago to find an even better selection than usual, and each one I tried was a delight. I...
Zhang Tianyi (张天翼) was a 20th-century Chinese satirist who went on to become editor of a prolific national literary journal. But, as a left winger and member of the Communist Party, the public needed to enjoy Zhang’s wit through...
Well, I just don’t think it happened like that.
It relies on too many coincidences. It can’t be the true origin of tea-drinking, surely.
For the emperor, Shen Nong (神農), to have received a stray, falling leaf of camellia sinensis in...
During the medieval ages, our city was home to one of the Seven Wonders of the World, the Porcelain Tower of Nanjing. Described as the “best contrived and noblest structure of all the East”, by French mathematician Le Comte,...
Succulent, juicy and unashamedly American. That’s the verdict on the recently-opened Smoke King in Nanjing’s Hexi area.Smoke King is part of the dining empire that is Jieniu (解牛), with their catchy English slogan “Beef Art”. In Nanjing the rest...
