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Renée Gray Beaumont

Battle of the (Aussie) Brunch; Round 1

If you so happen to find yourself in Xinjiekou, pekish and wondering where to go for good Western food, then skip on down to 31 Morning Brunch, an Australian inspired restaurant specialising in, you guessed right, brunch.  A newly embraced...

Dried Lily; The Antidote Gift from the Gods for Everything

The Day Lily (干百合) is beautiful, fragrant, medicinal and edible, an elegant flower that blooms once a day and has for the past 2,000 years, in China at least, been used for medicinal and culinary purposes, as well as...

Take 8 Months to Cycle 8,000 Km from Shanghai to London; Tick

“I don’t really know what to say; it’s taken 7 months and 24 days for me to come here”, says female cyclist Chaewon Yoo (Eva) to camera in the rain in front of London’s iconic Big Ben, upon completing...

Strawberry Fields Forever; 8 Top Nanjing Sites to Pick Your Own

Winter in Nanjing mostly spells grey, bleak and miserable. However, that’s not counting in days like today; brief pockets of sunny, crisp and inviting outdoor weather. Indeed, it is not all doom and gloom over this nigh-on 4 month period....

Kaleidoscopic Patchwork to be Auctioned for Children’s Autism Charity

CORRECTION: The original version of this article mistakenly stated that the new kaleidoscopic patchwork and the piece, "Buddha’s Seven Districts and Nine Meetings", are one in the same. The corrected version of the article is reproduced below. A gigantic, exquisite...

China’s Aging Population; The Town with 440 Centenarians

Rugao, a city under the jurisdiction of Nantong, located in the southeast of Jiangsu province, recently registered a whopping 440 centenarians, making it one of China’s top places for longevity.  Over the last decade, the county-level city has seen a...

QR Code Scams Pester Nanjingers

Be wary of where you scan QR codes in Nanjing, and the rest of China for that matter! Multiple cases of fake QR code theft citywide have given rise to a new and very modern problem.  QR code scams in...

PM2.5 Falls While Ozone Rises Say Harvard & NUIST

A recent study published in conjunction with the Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology (NUIST) has found that, despite the fact PM2.5 is falling, surface ozone pollution is on the rise. The study, that appears in “Proceedings of the...

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