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Get £3,850 Scholarship for Manchester Global Part-time MBA

Are you looking to increase your salary or change your role, industry or location? Transform your career with this flexible part-time MBA degree.The Manchester Global Part-time MBA is for professionals from all industries with at least three years of experience

LuxeMarket: Call For Vendors & Artists!

Luxetown: Where Chengdu Goes To ChillLuxeTown is the only Tuscan-style town in China, built especially to transport you straight back to Europe. The team that put it together spent 3 years researching over 40 beautiful European towns, with five design

2023 Chengdu Easter Specials

Whether this weekend is about resurrection, Ramadan…. or bread that isn’t risen – for you, we all could use a reason to come together, with friends and loved ones, after a shaky few weeks in the city.Many restaurants, and hotels are

Vote Now! 2022 Chengdu-Expat Awards

As the city springs back to life after three long years of hard slog, the people and places in Chengdu, that kept us fed, watered, and happy during the pandemic have never deserved our appreciation and recognition more.The Chengdu-Expat awards are

Chengdu 2021 FISU Games: 150-Day Countdown

• You’ll have seen the big yellow billboards, the countdowns, and even a message from the Chinese Space Station – about an event, that you likely wouldn’t have heard of before 2020 – The Summer World University Games.• Today, 28th

Why Westerners Love to Hate Baijiu, But Shouldn’t

This article was written by much loved Chengdu comedian (and career scientist) Michal Poznik. He’s left China for the time-being, and is now tooting baijiu’s horn from Vienna, Austria. If you like this article, you can check out more of his ramblings

2022 Awards: Nominate Your Favorites NOW!

The Chengdu-Expat awards are a yearly campaign to celebrate the communities, places, and people that make living in Chengdu so special, for the international community in China. It gives awards for the best restaurants, bars, hospitality venues and other, through

Chengdu Places Open During 2023 Chinese New Year

We’ve only just gotten over Christmas… but Chinese new year is HERE!Chinese New Year, specifically Chunyun, is the greatest annual human migration, which often leaves big cities deserted.It can be hard to figure out what to do during Chinese New

Survival Sichuanese

Survival SichuanesePeople have long joked, 天不怕地不怕只怕四川人说普通话 – there is nothing to fear but the Sichuanese speaking Mandarin, and it can be true.With a large lack of retroflex sounds (ch, zh, sh, etc.), confusions on h/f, n/l, s/c initial consonants and n/ng, en/un, ian/uan

Live Music in Chengdu

Whilst it forges ahead as the epicenter of Chinese rap music, with thanks to big names like the Higher Brothers  – the underground live music scene is becoming a formidable platform to launch good local artists and draw the attention of foreign indie bands.

Chengdu News Autumn 2021

It looks like another autumn has arrived in the city, where we’re not going beyond China’s fine borders – and before you know it winter will be in town. Luckily there’s lots going on to keep us distracted; celebrations, yet another

A New Flexible Online Mandarin Tutoring Platform

Do you want to have an easier life in China?Do you want to improve your employment prospects?If yes – then learning, or improving Chinese might be for you!We’re all likely to be in China for a little while now – so

A New Journey Begins at SPGS International Chengdu

After two years of thorough preparation in London as well as in Chengdu, on 31st August, SPGS International School Chengdu opened its doors to its first cohort of students and began a promising and exciting year. The School is built on a close partnership

Become a Business Leader with an MBA and Earn 75% More Than Now

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Holiday Syndrome? Join our Activities Day!

Term is about to begin, and we all wonder how to ease children back into learning-mode, after summer of fun?“Holiday Syndrome” is inevitable, so we need to carefully bring the children back from “play mode” into “work mode”. But how

Downgraded: Low Risk Chengdu

As of August 12, 2021, the city of Chengdu had no new locally confirmed cases for 14 consecutive days. Accordingly, the last standing medium-risk area in American Garden was downgraded from medium-risk to a low-risk area. The whole of Chengdu

Camping Near Chengdu

Camping Near ChengduWhen most people think of Chengdu, they picture pandas chomping on bamboo, endless lajiao and hectic driving – not tents, campfires and three-day-old underwear. However, no far from the city, especially in western Sichuan, there’s no shortage of unique hiking

China Time: Euro 2021 Match Schedule

• Euro 2020 kick-starts this summer 2021 with 51 matches to savour across the course of a month-long period from June 11th to July 11th.• The anticipated rescheduled tournament is now set to take place in summer 2021. With 51 matches taking

10 Years Chengdu International Football League

A lot has changed in Chengdu in the last 10 years. Giant buildings emerged from construction sites, new metro lines popped up regularly and the city’s footprint expanded by the hour. One thing that has remained constant though is the

2021 Chengdu St. Patrick’s Day Events

Drink, eat and be merry. Check out where to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day in Chengdu:March 17: Home Plate Address:Wuhou District, Ziwei East Rd. No. 54成都市武侯区紫薇东路54号March 17: The Range Address:Wuhou District, First Ring Road #9 South First Section Building 1. Second