Culture

You are reading this in English. I can therefore assume that, unless you have some aversion to carbs, you have found your solution to the problem of bread.Personally, I have a bread maker from Midea which cost less than...

He dreamed of a strong, unified and democratic China, in death creating an everlasting symbol of China’s transition from empire to republic. Today, the Sun Yat-sen mausoleum remains a must see for both Chinese and international visitors to Nanjing. The...

On the one hand, there is its status as one of Nanjing’s most popular attractions, with its supreme wooden architecture as backdrop to Buddhist observance, playing the role of nunnery to converts stationed within.  On the other, the crowds are...

Let’s say that it halves with each cycle. Each consecutive steeping produces half the flavour of the last. With each pouring, the drink more closely resembles water. Eventually, water is all that this drink will have become. The exponential...

When I lived in Beijing, students hoping to study abroad would travel half a day to a certain shrine, praying to receive an “offer”. They were practicing hieroglossia. That’s because they deemed the shrine’s name; 卧佛寺 similar enough to...

A cornerstone of modern Chinese education, blending Western academic traditions with Chinese cultural values, the legacy of Jinling University continues to this day, through the institutions it helped establish and the generations of scholars it educated. With little doubt the...

Intended as a place to worship and consecrate Confucius, Fuzimiao in Nanjing has seen its share of violence, the area around it having gone through ravishing epochs of change. The essence of Qinhuai River scenery and one of Nanjing’s two...

It’s teenagers who enjoy it the most. It’s there in so many of the snacks they eat. It is a horrifying rottenness. They love it. They are wrong to love it. Of course, many of these snacks of rottenness contain...