14-10-28 A fowler was setting his nets for little birds when a lark came up to him and asked him what he was doing. I am engaged in founding a city, said he, and with that he withdrew to a short distance and concealed himself. The lark examined the nets with...

14-09-25 City hopping describes the situation that some young Chinese are forced to give up jobs in large cities like Shanghai and Beijing and try to settle down in second-or-third-tier cities because of harsh competition at work and increasing living costs....

14-09-10 Many many years ago, in the State of Song, there was a city gate. Outside the gate was a moat with fishes that lived a quiet and happy life there. One day the tower above the city gate caught fire and the people of the city were alarmed. Even the fi...

14-09-10 A person of the state of Qi heard that Tian Ying, the king of the State of Jin wanted to expend the city wall of his vavasory Xue. He then told a story of a big sea fish to Tian Ying, There is a big fish in the sea. There is no net could catch it, n...

14-08-29 Britain is a second-rate power which has been in decline for a century yet London remains the most influential city in the world. 尽管大英帝国经过一个世纪的衰落，已沦为一个二流强国，但伦敦仍是全球最具影响力的城市。 Those are the startling findings o...

14-08-28 Hedge city is a safe, stable city with extremely high real estate values caused by foreign investors buying properties as a hedge against instability in their own countries. 对冲城市是那些安全、稳定、房价高的城市，外国投资者会选择在这种城市购买房产...

14-07-23 Persecuted by ill-fortune, and stricken with grief, there seemed to be only one means of safety left to me. I shaved my beard and my eyebrows, and put on the dress of a calender, in which it was easy for me to travel without being known. I avoided t...

14-06-20 Nay, Sindbad. Heaven forbid that I should covet your riches; I will rather add to them, for I desire that you shall not leave my kingdom without some tokens of my good will. He then commanded his officers to provide me with a suitable lodging at his...

14-06-20 IN the times of the Caliph Haroun-al-Raschid there lived in Bagdad a poor porter named Hindbad, who on a very hot day was sent to carry a heavy load from one end of the city to the other. Before he had accomplished half the distance he was so tired...

14-05-14 The Caliph Haroun-al-Raschid sat in his palace, wondering if there was anything left in the world that could possibly give him a few hours' amusement, when Giafar the grand-vizir, his old and tried friend, suddenly appeared before him. Bowing low, h...