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The Supplement

Top Tales to Tell; What are Nanjing’s Weirdest Street Names?

Streets regale us of stories, reflecting warmth in the shadows of the changing times, telling the vicissitudes of life over time and space, and revealing the prosperity of our City; the grandest City of Nanjing, for all its wondrous weirdness. Beginning up north...

Who Agrees Douyin (TikTok) is a Disease? The Jury is Out (ish)

What on Earth happened to our attention span? Marketers used to say that you have 3 minutes to hold someone’s attention (when trying to sell them something). Now it appears that’s just 3 seconds. The question is, are short...

“Murder on the Orient Express”; What’s the Nanjing Connection?

T’was a September day in Nanjing much like today. And like this year, it was also a year that had seen major flooding across much of China earlier that summer. But the day stood out for there being an...

Claude Monet Stars but No Such Thing as Absolute in Art

Truly not often do you get to upstage Andy Warhol. And with an exhibition about flowers of all things. For there are very few exhibitions, if any, of floral still lifes on a scale that match that now on...

Distilling the Conversation; Drunken Apes Drive Tourism of Today

An enormous, faux-ceramic-baijiu urn greets visitors to the Yanghe Winery Culture Tourist Area in Suqian, Jiangsu Province.  It’s a metaphor for the size of that which lies dormant inside the urn. And yes, it’s full (of you know what). The...

“ESG Investment Pioneer City” Nanjing Expands Investment Network

Nanjing, the capital of China's Jiangsu province, is striving to become a pioneer city for ESG (Environment, Social, Governance) investment, with its network of like-minded enterprises continuing to expand. Just four months after the inaugural salon, the "Nanjing Wuxiang...

From Rags to Riches; The ¥10 Billion Garlic Production Base in Jiangsu

Large Scale, Industrial Farming is Finally Catching on in China. For those who Played their Cards Right, it’s become a Veritable Garlic Mine. A county-level city under the administration of Xuzhou City in Jiangsu’s far northwest with a population of...

Crazy Hairdressers & 1956 Former Cinema Now Interactive Theatre

As the audience entered, hair dryers, music and the sound of toilets flushing were heard in the theatre during warm up. “Who wants to wash their hair?”, or, “Which lady needs a manicure?”, were the refrains which came from the...

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Tasty Solutions on the Menu at Shanghai Climate Week

Shanghai Climate Week coincides with Earth Day and highlights China's dual-carbon commitments. And while its object as also a...

Why is the Shanghai Government Sniffing around Our Back Yard? 

Shanghai-Nanjing Innovation Belt emerges, with Putuo District driving cross-regional collaboration to boost economic growth for 50+ million people Putuo officials...

Nanjing’s International Flights; All Change for Summer Schedule

April is rolling around, and with it comes a new schedule for flights in and out of Nanjing Lukou...

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