nanjing

www.ministryoftofu.com — Kunqu, or Kun Opera, boasting its 600 years of history, recently gave a refreshing appearance in Nanjing’s subway.

www.ministryoftofu.com — Nanjing Municipal Government is unleashing an offensive to the city’s thousands of 70-year-old trees for subway construction. The government promised to transplant them to somewhere else. However, furious citizens distrust the government. They get up a petition and call for a protest online. The protest effort has been obstructed by China’s largest social networking site Renren.com.

www.lostlaowai.com — Recent chatter on the sinoblogosphere has brought to my attention a rivalry of which I'd previously been unaware. Now living in Shanghai, I am all to familiar with the idea that there are two parts of China, namely Shanghai and then the countryside. And I also know there's much talk about whether

www.chinahush.com — It is the crayfish season again; the delicious crayfish because popular in China’s hot mid summer nights ever since the late 1990s. However this year over dozens of people in Nanjing were hospitalized with strange symptoms of unbearable muscle pains after eating crayfish since July.

gochengdoo.com — A high-speed train from Nanjing to Chengdu will be up and running by the end of this month, allowing passengers to travel between the two cities in a mere nine hours. Originally scheduled for a 2011 opening, the 2,078-kilometer Shanghai-Wuhan-Chengdu high-speed railway comprises the longest horizontal cross in the 4 by 4 grid of high-speed train lines that will eventually cover the entire country.