Capital Constructs

The significance of the Nanjing Museum is hard to overstate. As one of the earliest museums in China, it is also one of only three national-level museums in the entire country; the other two being in Beijing and Taipei. Therefore,...

At 01:10 on 12 November, 1999, a fire broke out in the waiting room of Nanjing Railway Station. Later it would be discovered the cause was the aging of internal wiring. The fire quickly spread to the entire facility,...

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...

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...

It’s the place where the lower and upper classes would be required to intermingle ahead of an assuredly somewhat long journey. With air travel a thing of the future, and not a single bridge across the mighty Yangtze River,...

Consummate shoppers among our alert readers will know all too well that China’s top-performing shopping mall is SKP (新光天地) in Beijing, with yearly sales of ¥13.5 billion. And the only other mall in China in that club with a...

Zhongshan Wharf is where, on 23 April, 1949, troops of the People's Liberation Army landed to recapture Nanjing. It was the last time the city would be capital of China. But the story of this, one of Nanjing’s most iconic...

“What on Earth is that?”, is the question to most commonly escape a person’s mouth upon first glimpse of the Jinling Library. For good reason; if Nanjing has any structure more befitting of a place on another world (and there...