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L.M.A; Losing My Addiction

I suspect that it is possible to be addicted to a location, as opposed to a substance or an activity. Top of the list would likely be the bedroom, followed by the bathroom. Yet, that would be to deny...

Big Green Business

Another social shift is bubbling in Nanjing; one mainly due to the increase in wealth and standards of living. The middle to upper classes are fed up and unwilling to buy many domestic products destined for the mouth.They should...

The Cricket’s Song

Set in the Forbidden City during a time where the only certainty is change, this story tells of the one thing uniting the past and present for one of the most important characters in Chinese history as he concludes...

Forward; to the Future

As time travellers arrive in Nanjing, they might expect to find a Metro service ready to whisk them off to the suburbs, or possibly to destinations beyond the stars. Pods float above an elegant bridge over Xuanwu Lake waiting...

The Englishman’s Wife

“Just as a formality Mrs. Lin, we will need something on record that can prove your family history. Is there anything we can use?” asked the British woman sat behind the desk at the Visa Application Centre in Shanghai....

The Knowledge

“Shifu?” I ask, “shifu? Ting bu jian ma?” With no response, I peer over the front seat. “Ke’chink”, goes the lighter, blazing up another Nanjing Gold as he simultaneously gags up impressive fat greeny phlegm and spits it out...

Breaker One-Niner; A Chinese Truck Driver’s Life

We are spoilt rotten here in Nanjing and Jiangsu. Amongst everything else that makes us kings and queens of the big China castle is our road network. The highway asphalt that has been laid over the last decade all...

Second Hand Silk

Growing up, I was made aware of what was to be handed down to me after there was to be a death in the family, what family heirloom, so precious it was priceless would some day be mine. ...

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Nanjing’s International Flights; All Change for Summer Schedule

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