China

Those who know me will know that I can recount more than my share of what are commonly known as ‘ghost experiences’. …

In Nanjing I waited for the Goldilocks time, not too cold, not too hot – to walk the entire Nanjing City Walls. The …

Arguably, the most shocking part of Iris Chang’s book ‘The Rape Of Nanking’, comes in its Epilogue. During my 12 months living …

A small claim to fame….Last year I found some little dinosaur footprints in China, and the resulting paper has just been published …

It happens so often. I chance across a place in a city – then fruitlessly search high and low for it again. …

Boring weekends, I’d sometimes head around the block to a little bakery in Danfeng St. I’d pick up a little selection of …

Ah, the eternal quest for a kiwi in China to find …. cheese. I foraged far and wide, and finally, one evening, …

Everyone warned me about Chinese New Year in Nanjing. I listened, sure, but I guess I couldn’t believe that it would be …

I have an innate hatred of supermarkets. The faster I can get in and out of them, the better. But the big …

The Jiming temple is our neighbour at NIGPAS ( the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology). I can see them out my …