www.thenanjinger.com Contents THETHE MAY 2020

Volume#10/Issue#6 6 Contributors 7 Nomads 8 Editorial #94 9 Poem; Old Fashions 10 Nanjing’s Foreign Fashion Insiders on the Impact of Covid-19 14 Opening a Can of Bats Face-Masked Fusions of Fashion 18 Are All Things Nanjing Fashionabe? Only if they’re Online! 20 Great Nanjingers (2) Dreamer of Damsals in Red; Cao Xueqin 22 For Art’s Sake The You Haven’t Heard of 25 Strainer Drinking the Yellow Peril 26 Our Space 28 The Gavel Legal Issues for WeChat Sales of Luxury Products 29 Metro Map

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The Only Thing That Looks Good On Me IsYou

s Nanjing cool? We’d like to think so, and ubiquitous. This time around, the garment has we’d bet you agree. In fact, the city has also influenced the rest of our wardrobe, for Ibeen “à la mode” for a while now, given better or worse. See p. 14-17. the nationalist craze for the Republican Period, also known as the Nanjing Decade The Spring Collection; the Summer Collection; (1927-1937). But just how can such very the... Well, you know. It’s looking as if these are physical, tangible qualities be transferred becoming sayings of yesteryear; herein a online? See p.18-19. selection of Nanjing’s foreign outfitters on how our clothing is set for a makeover. See p.10-12. And hence to face masks. Alert readers shall remember that back in 2013, at the height of air Welcome to “Fashion” from The Nanjinger. pollution from the construction readying Nanjing for the Youth Olympics, face mask were also then Ed.

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8 By atuBalgn Bralligan Maitiu O ‘20 l d Fashions

Bell bottoms, bangs, bangles and Kohl, Leather and lace, denim jackets, tie dyed t-shirts, Neon sneakers, Grolsch bottle tops, Hoodies, low slung jeans, rolled up jacket sleeves, Big collars, small collars, no collars Shell suits, ski jackets, bandanas, Espadrilles, Docs, boat shoes with no socks, White socks, basketball shoes, Nike air Back combing, beehives, crew cuts, skinheads, But not the mullet. Surely never, never the mullet.

9 Nanjing’sForeign Fashion Insiders onthe Impact of Covid-19

“I’m really into purple velvet right now”, Rosie Colvin said. “Think Willy Wonka, or maybe Prince. That’s my vibe.”

he UK fashion designer was discussing her dream ensemble for when she’d finally be released from quarantine. Currently waiting for permission to return to Nanjing, where she works for an assortment of brands, both international and domestic, Colvin has found herself deprived of the opportunity to express her style to the outside world. Donyell Marshall T she said over the By “I’ve been planning some freedom outfits,” phone from her parent’s house in Manchester, England. She wore a pair of refurbished“Michael Jackson tap shoes” to the supermarket the other day, she said. A man with a red beard complimented her in the meat aisle.“He said, ‘Hey, I like your shoes.’ I had my mask on so he couldn’t see that I smiled. But I smiled with my eyes.” She sighed. “I’ve definitely found myself more open to spontaneity”, “I miss wearing nice clothes,” she said.“I can’t wait to go out to Trina Tulloch, 29, said of her the bar, get dressed up and feel like myself again.” approach to life after As with everything the novel coronavirus leaves in its wake, a quarantine. “It’s been fun to get reckoning has been brought upon the fashion industry. ready for nights out. The ritual Companies across the globe have struggled to cope with supply is a bit refreshed. I’ve rekindled chain issues and weak demand, leading many to shutter their my love of getting ready.” doors and manufacturing facilities. In some cases, they’ve had no Social distancing, for all intents choice but to file for bankruptcy. and purposes, appears firmly The pandemic has also led to the postponement or behind us in Nanjing, a relic of cancellation of a number of fashion weeks, including in last season. Gone are the days and Shanghai; Shanghai Fashion Week was scheduled to begin of confinement and our on 26 March, while Beijing’s China Fashion Week was slated to sedentary existence. Bars and run from 25 to 31 March. restaurants are open for in- house dining. Temperature Yet in China, reasons for optimism remain. As precaution and guns are seen less frequently. paranoia increasingly fade out of style, making way for a renewed sense of sartorial fervor,the citizens of Nanjing appear eager to Once more, we are allowed to make up for lost time. roam free.

10 The privilege of leaving our homes, however, And then there’s the question of the garments demands that we walk about with dignity.“I was living themselves. Should the look align with the in my pajamas”, lamented Natalie Roman, 24, who destabilising nature of the current moment, or has been working from home as an English teacher as intentionally offer a brighter outlook in stark relief from a precaution against the spread of Covid-19.“If I had the existential anxiety from which we suffer? to work, I’d just change my top, since that’s all anyone “Fashion is still a form of escapism. For me, anyway, can see.” you still want a bit of an aspirational look to it”, Sheltering at home is a thing of the past. No longer Colvin said.“In times when things are difficult and existing within the confines of a computer screen, we people are going through a lot, will we feel frivolous must account for the entirety of our bodies when dressing in a certain way? Or will we want to express getting dressed. The clothes available to us, however, ourselves more after being locked up and not seeing are also primed for a radical rethinking. the outside world?” “I think we’re going to see a lot less choice on our For fashion insiders desperate for guidance on how to shelves”, Colvin said.“Companies are going to take weather the storm, the people of China could serve as fewer risks. You might not see as many things that are a valuable testing ground for projecting what their trend-driven.” customers want as the global crisis continues on throughout the rest of the world. Carla Bissell, a fashion merchandiser based in Nanjing, said the impact of the virus won’t necessarily “What I realised during that time is how much we be felt right away.“So much of what’s happening now spend and how deep into consumerism I was,” Roman was decided before the virus arrived, so there’s still a said.“I try to be more cautious now when shopping. I lot of unknowns”, she said. already have so much, I don’t need to buy more.” More pressing to the current moment is how For others, shopping for garments on Taobao offered consumers will respond to their new reality. While a way to pass the time during quarantine. “Once you some are eager to spend money after having so try on the clothes and they fit nicely, you can’t wait”, many outlets for their disposable income nullified, said Tulloch, who purchased jumpers, heels, others who have been furloughed or otherwise seen blouses, jeans and gym clothes, while social a dip in their salaries are bound to be more modest in distancing in her apartment. “It’s giving yourself their spending. something to look forward to.”

11 Ecommerce has never been more vital for a business Even before the onset of Covid-19, the fashion to succeed. Consumers have also never been faced industry was shifting toward sustainability. “We with the burden of preserving a company’s survival. need to do less”, Miuccia Prada said after her While behemoths like Amazon and Taobao offer the Spring 2020 women’s show last September. luxury of convenience, the spread of Covid-19 has “There is too much fashion, too much clothes, too tested the viability of smaller businesses, both in and much of everything.” out of the fashion industry. Delays in the manufacturing supply chain Tied into the equation is the topic of sustainability; The means the trend-focused fast fashion business British Fashion Council confirmed that a new version of will be in peril, as the timeline from design London Fashion Week will be completely digital in light of to delivery is no longer sustainable under the the pandemic and that the event will be gender-neutral, current circumstances. But for many within meaning that menswear, womenswear and genderless the industry, the yearning for more sustainability shows will be merged together. can be traced back to before the virus.

Donning her signature black glasses during an interview with the model, Naomi Campbell, Vogue editor ,Anna Wintour, reiterated the need for the industry to slow down.

“We need to celebrate the art of fashion and the design of fashion and we need to slow down and enjoy it much more and not always be saying, ‘What’s new? What’s next?’” Wintour said.

“It’ll be interesting to see if they can streamline everywhere that only seem to encourage fast the shows and whether that will trickle down the fashion because there are so many styles. If whole chain so there’s less consumption,” Bissell things get streamlined, maybe people will be said.“Fashion shows are where people get their more considerate about what they buy, both with inspiration from, and there are so many shows price and from a sustainability point of view.” Purple velvet, one could surmise, is a step in the right direction.

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“We’ll burn that bridge when we get to it”is one of my father’s favourite sayings.“Until the cows freeze over” is another. A blended idiom or cliché is called a malaphor. The combination of two hitherto unrelated concepts makes us smile, and puzzle over how we come to know the things we know. One of the irrefutable ingredients in our weird and wonderful mental schemata is the society in which we live, and one of the most fabulous markers of society and culture is fashion. What we see literally becomes part ofwho we are. And the bridge burning timeline is certainly relevant in the here and now. Opening Triona Ryan a Can By of Bats Face Masked Fusions of Fashion

14 hen I first moved to China in 2013, masks were addition to daily life in Nanjing in recent years, and the W another whimsical fashion afoot in Asia. They influencers of the up and coming generation no formed part of the initial reports back to friends and longer sport their outdoor jim-jams, even in the midst family back home. If the proclivity for our host of winter. Things change. country to sport facial wear to battle smog, SARS and Covid came. The mask literally disappeared from other meddlesome biohazards wasn’t enough to shock stores from one day to the next. Europe, there was always the then common slit- panted babies, outdoor pyjamas and the “passion Masks were the new black. killer” nylon ankle socks. “I’ve seen people out with camera lenses that would Hand washing, time spent in solitude and a deep make Annie Liebovitz swoon. One guy threw himself examination of the ego ensued. Sanitisers followed the down on his belly to take picture of the ninjas blowing masks out the store doors. Mysteriously, in the West, bubbles from the double buggy last week. It was all I toilet paper also vanished. In Asia, we were left scratching could do not to roll right over him”, I typed. our… heads in wonder. These are the times we are living.

Weeks later, the same picture showed up on a wall in Indeed, I see it in my own life. Walking through the Xinjiekou subway station. In Asia, everyone school foyer that fateful first Monday back, my limbs embraced their inner Annie. Amateur photography moved in an odd, triangular way. At first, I couldn’t combined with agile gymnastics to capture lights and quite place the discomfort, the tension tingling in my angles unseen to the Western eye. Snapping images pores. It wasn’t until I sat down on my newly sterilised was very à la mode. The pyjama-clad, slit-panted, stoolthat it hit me like a ton of toilet rolls; the seams of slipper-footed photographic contortionists of yonder my clothes were too close to my body. The mask on years, against grey skied backdrops and the masks my face was stifling. My muffled outbursts of cognitive where what most stuck with me. My children drew fairy dust reduced to “and that is why pictures of grey skies, green grass. Their eyebrows rose wemufhabaykoncheddar the importance of the in puzzlement when I asked, “Why not paint the sky shwafflehufflefrump essential…”We all know those blue?” eyes; the “Huh?” eyebrows. Someone said, “They Thanks to the tremendous green push on the part of should invent a mask with a clear window so we could the government, blue skies have become a pleasant see your lips”.

151 “You should do it,” I replied, enunciating much the same as the seams of my work clearly and slowly. We slowed down. pants suggested themselves too strongly I pre-wrote class notes. We adapted and upon my soul that morning, so too did my move forward. shoes oppress, my shirt confine and my sensible socks constrict. Social isolation had In the case of the mask windows, someone stripped my wardrobe bare of buttons, zips, has beaten us to the chase. Eric Kim, a fastners and buckles. Denim was banished in student from Portland, Oregon, High School the first wave, anything that needed a worked within the deaf community. He felt reading of the care label in the second. Soon, that communication without the facial cues only the stretchy pants and fleecy pjs were to and lip-reading aids would be be found on the once vibrantly stuffed unfathomable, and so he set to making face shelves. Hoodies, soft and thick hung where masks with a transparent window, using pipe silks and linens used to sway. cleaners, vinyl and regular face masks. He has shipped 17 so far and raised over The skirts were culled. For the men, the most US$2,400 on his GoFundme page which he visible stamp of Covid has been the will donate to the deaf community. renunciation of hope for a professional hair trim and running the gauntlet with the home Reading this heartened me. Even in the trimmers, orworse, at the hands of someone depths of uncertainty, of doubt, of who had “done it loads of times before. apprehension, the human spirit still Oooops.” If you want to enjoy gems such as reaches out to help. Always look for the “Just let my girlfriend attempt a skin fade helpers, says Mr. Rogers. and now I look like I’m about to nuke Parallel to the diverse reactions of the human America,” you can check out delightful species to Covid19, fashion too has evolved hashtags like #coronacuts, #don’tdothis, since January of this year. On a personal level, #bigmistake, #thehorror.

16 The flexibility, nay lithe glee, with revamp her blog content to remain which my wardrobe morphed into a relevant during lockdown. To leisure wear dystopia is similarly compensate for the lack of creativity reflected across the world, now that social distancing has imposed on lockdowns extend across Europe her blog, she’s begun to explore a and The States. There is the deeper layer of herself, and share it horrendous issue of The Roots of with the world. Recently, she posted Wrath, black and grey valleys a video of herself singing, and old running deep beneath rolling hills photos and snacks have started to of blonde and russet browns. appear in her blog posts reflect a Scarves seem to be a way forward; going inwards and an acceptance of simply bandage them around your another side of an of an influencers head until you can feasibly claim life; the tie-died sweater and that it’s a balayage. You could also sweatpants-clad human in the cave, just rock those roots like a total grazing on snacks. Rarely shared, it’s influencer and be the first to sport not hard to imagine how heartening the new normal; The Way I Am. It it is for kids to see their idols living a may also help shift attention from pretty similar life to their own right the new Joe Exotic haircut your now, fashion be damned. loved one is sporting. It may help It’s not rocket surgery. with the seams. Unprecedented times cause I love scarves. I love roots. The unprecedented change. Our important thing is to reach out to armours fall away when we spend someone else too, see who we can time sitting with them. It becomes help. Maybe not making miniature harder, and in a sense, pointless to miracles out of pipe cleaners, but keep up old pretences. We can there is always a way, if we look. become more aware of our Elizabeth Savetsky, an influencer personal narratives, and the whims who lives in New York has had to of fancy that dictate them.

We can relax, at last. Covid 19. Bringer of Roots, Cutter of Dodgy Skin-Fades, Seams Redeemer. We have made this can ofworms, or bats, and nowwe must lie in it. Covid is here. But we are still here too.

17 It’s really difficult not to think of fashion when you think of a Nanjinger. Everything we know is coloured by something or other; in the case of Nanjing, the fashion that stands out is the Nanjing dialect, “Nankinese”, because it is “La crème de la Nanjinger”. These pinnacles of society do not only speak Nanjing dialect, but also eat Nanjing salted duck, use Jingling gold foilwherever possible (you can drink it, you know) and pray for the Nanjing Massacre victims on 13 December each year. In a city where even the dialect is the height of cool,how did people survive social distancing, self-isolation and the transition to online? Are All Things Nanjing Fashionable? Only if they’re Online! I bumped into an old friend back on campus last week. They were looking a million dollars. “Hey! Haven’t seen you in a long time.What did the coronavirus do to you that a person

Wang Yutong like you never came shopping with me

By before?” “Oh! I didn’t go out, I shopped online. It’s so convenient, I have every brand in the universe at my fingertips and I don’t have to leave my house. Which was good, ‘cos I couldn’t leave my house. Now you’re the one behind the times!” Has even fashion, for this special period of time, become online?

18 hat’s the definition While schools started online Even now, with death lurking of fashion? Coming learning, fashion companies behind every mask, and no one to first to mind is started online live streams to sell see us in our fancy new clothes definitely clothes, their products, people found jobs but the dog and the family, W looking good is an important facet shoes, or maybe those catwalk making creative, random, funny twig-legged models and Vogue, or videos online to share with people in actuallyFEELING good. one of the growing eclectic all around the world, and so too Fashion is not just about types of delights that is the rich well of lectures were produced online. clothes, shoes and make up; it’s blogging fashionistas around the more a way of life, a lifestyle.Real Now, more than ever before, globe. But fashion embraces more; fashion is unique and online life has become a jewellery, make up, movies, characteristic;there are lot more necessary evil. The true meaning languages, sports, media, food. … possibilities and opportunities of fashion can be found in events there to be dug. It should not just In fact, it is the trend of popular of the time. This is the birth of be something that is only about things over a period of time. trend. Live streams now lead the appearance; it’s also a unique The 1950s stands out in my mind, current fashion trend, as they lifestyle, a work-life balance and a shining with its definition of directly unite the most powerful cultural difference. fashion. During this era in China, group in society today; the fans. the fashion was to wear military Their power makes live streaming There are many more things that uniforms, sing revolutionary songs, popular and trendy; a defining need exploration, now that you kick hacky sacks and roll hoops. fashion of this period. have your shovel out. Everyone On the other hand, in the 50s in One day in March, I went to my has their own interpretation and America, fitted blouses and parents’ clothing company. The understanding of fashion. After jackets with rounded shoulders empty building clearly showed all, we are all different and with small round collars, what the coronavirus had done. fashion is an important factor collocating with narrow pants and However, a small office remained that makes each and every one of capris, were the trend.Rock ’n’ open, lights on, with three people us special. roll was the popular music. inside live streaming away. My Purchasing a TV set was also the mum explained that this small fashion of the decade. place saved our company. Today, in these short months, Herein, this department had fashion has transited to online. As organised not only sales a student, the shift to a newway of throughout the epidemic, but also learning in school has changed my live streams to keep people’s lifestyle, distorted my body clock, spirits up. Our customers were time management and efforts at more than happy to share their concentration. But my transition to ideas and desires. So really, not online learning has certainly been only did it save us, it allowed us to aided by my savvy pre-knowledge innovate and become a truer of online shopping. version of ourselves.

19 Great Nanjingers(2)

By Frank Hossack Dreamer of Damsals in Red; Cao Xueqin

Cao Xueqin (曹雪芹) was a free-spirited individual It would have never come to be, however, were it not with a fondness for the bottle. But he was also a for the despotic nature of Kangxi’s son, the newly- visionary with a keen eye for the human condition, ascended Emperor Yongzheng. In his crack down on largely the result of his family’s fall from grace in the corruption, the Cao family were removed from office eyes of the ruling elites. He spent his last decade for“mismanagement of funds”, according to“China: destitute, all the while writing a novel that he would Five Thousand Years of History and Civilization”, never see finished, and never see published, one that published by the City University of Hong Kong. long after his death would to go on to be one of the Purged to the outskirts of Beijing, Cao lived out his four great classics of Chinese literature. life largely in abject poverty, surviving with the help Today, the Jiangning Imperial Silk Manufacturing of friends and by selling off his paintings. Museum sits on the ruins of the Jiangning Imperial Silk Writing the novel probably kept him sane. The precise Manufacturing Government Office. This was a observation of the social structures and divisions of temporary palace for the emperors during their 18th-century China predicted the collapse of southern tours, from the reign of Emperor Kangxi (1654 feudalism society, criticising its politics, ethics, cruelty – 1722 CE) to that of Emperor Qianlong (1711 – 1799 CE). and inhumanity. It was the largest such structure in the country and The long lasting legacy and impact of “Dream of the was also the birthplace of Cao. This should have Red Chamber” is apparent in that there is an entire paved the way for a life of nobility, but it was to be academic field of study devoted exclusively to the short lived. novel;“Redology” . The field suggests that the family Cao’s grandfather,Cao Yin( 曹寅),was, as ayoung boy, depicted in the novelwas a fictional or “dream” version friends with the future emperor, Kangxi. His great of Cao’s own. grandfather was later appointed by the emperor to Located diagonally across from Nanjing’s 1912 on serve in Nanjing (then Jiangning) as Commissioner of Changjiang Lu, the Jiangning Imperial Silk Imperial Textiles, a post that was, upon his death, Manufacturing Museum makes for a fascinating handed down to Cao Yin. afternoon. Among the permanent exhibitions spread By the time Cao eventually came along, the familywas over 8,700 square metres and six floors is one devoted sufficiently powerful and respected to have hosted to Cao’s epic work, in which can be experienced Kangxi during four of his visits to Nanjing. The young settings where many events in the novel happened. Cao spent his days reading, writing or playing chess For a look at the real thing, however, a high-speed with the damsels of his entourage, when he wasn’t train is required, to see the “Jiaxu manuscript”, painting or writing poetry, that is. dated to 1754 and on display in the Shanghai It is surmised that he was referring to this kind of idilic Museum. That there be not even one manuscript in life when he came up with the name for his work, Nanjing is not only a chronic oversight, but also an “Dream of the Red Chamber”( 红楼梦). irony befitting the life story of its author.

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明 坟 墓

FOR ARTS SAKE with Francesca Leiper

ing Xiaoling, the tomb of the Zhu Yuanzhang, first emperor of the Ming dynasty, ranks among Nanjing’s top attractions. Perhaps Mlesser known however are a smattering of tombs throughout the city that belong to generals and officials who also played a key role in the establishment of the Ming dynasty, with its capital here, in 1368.Although significantly smaller than the emperor’s mausoleum, each tomb has a certain charm and the rather more peaceful intimate settings make for a worthy visit.

22 he first ones I found were the tombs of features, according to art historian Ann Paludan, was brothers Wu Zhen and Wu Liang, just a deliberate and expressed an ideal virtue. But for what T stone’s throw from Gangzicun station exit 1, may lack in facial detail is made up in the intricate on the western slopes of Purple Mountain. carving of their attire. Swirling cloud and flower Expecting to find some sort of park, New Century patterns contrast with sharp geometric chainmail, Garden (Xinshijie Huayuan) turned out to be a while the shoulder pads of each official are adorned residential complex and as a visitor I had to sign in. It with a beast’s face. seemed an unlikely location for two 600-year-old Immediately behind the short spirit way is another tombs, but the guards at the front gate were collection of stone statues in much the same incredibly friendly and knew exactly where to direct configuration, except one of the officials is almost me. There the tombs were, tucked away between comically shrouded in palm trees. The tomb housing blocks, nestled among the unruly foliage. platform is simple and anticlimactic, despite Ming generals Wu Zhen and Wu Liang were brothers doubts as to whether the brothers were in fact from Anhui and both influential in Zhu Yuanzhang’s buried here. overthrow of the Mongol Yuan dynasty. To be buried on The stone figures do not differ greatly from those Purple Mountain was a great honour, while the location at , but a lack of tourists and sense of of their tombs added extra protection to the emperor’s secrecy at this site allows for more peaceful mausoleum on the southern side of the mountain. contemplation. As Paludan puts it, “They demand

As you walk in on your left is a tortoise (or ), full attention. When you take time, however, and which would once have had a stone tablet on its look up at one of them, you become slowly aware back detailing the tomb occupant. The central that thefigure appears to be looking back at you, corridor, known as the spirit way, consists of telling you something. The sculptors have stone statues in pairs; horses and attendants, succeeded in imbuing the heavy block of stone rams, lions and officials. The stone animals and with a spiritual quality which is still eloquent nearly figures not only serve to protect the deceased, but six hundred years later”. each of them carries a symbolic meaning too. Rams A short walk southeast of the same metro station for example represent justice, while lions symbolise takes you to another two tombs, those of Qiu Chen power and authority. and Chang Yuchun, the latter of which is set against At the end of the spirit way, in front of where the a picturesque bamboo backdrop, while in the north, deceased would have been interred, two officials Li Wenzhong and Xu Da’s tombs are much grander, stand face to face, thickset and grounded, their but currently under renovation and may not be expression impassive. The abstraction of their facial open until later this year.

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By Matthew Stedman Drinking the Yellow Peril It’s not yellow. Let’s get that out of the way first.

he leaves are as green as Act One in Sonic. And I’d completely forgotten that there exists a whole the drink; well, green tea makes a pale yellow “yellow tea” category in China. I didn’t think that, for the T drink anyway, so there’s no room for first time, I was buying some. differentiation there. I was hoping to score some of that vegetal, pea-soupy It all reminds me of that ad for Canada’s Red Rock Mao Feng flavour. And, luckily, Huang Ya fully delivers cider; “It’s not red and there are no rocks in it”. in just that way. It’s been great tea for these strange months. It’s soothed me more often than it’s fuelled my But, for Westerners like me, there’s perhaps always lockdown meltdowns. been a need for “Yellow Tea” to exist. And now I am running out of the stuff, I must go and Fascinated by the variety of Camellia Sinensis; from check up on that seller. Actually, I fear the worst for oxidised to unoxidised, with additional parameters like his small business. I’m ashamed to admit that I am fermentation, baking and firing; I’m in love with the idea writing this before I have checked on him. that this plant can spawn infinite permutations. Next time I write about this tea in Strainer, I shall Chameleon Sinensis. mention more details about its origin and taste, instead Rosé barely takes the complex world of wine to three of flippantly discussing its nomenclature. Yes, I’m core hues. And cheese cheats, by requiring extra tempted to say“Naked Mao Feng” would be my name ingredients to earn its colours (though “blue” is a for this great tea, since it lacks the hairs possessed by microbial show stopper to rival any pu’er!) many examples of that variety. But calling it that would spoil this “traffic lights of tea” effect. Just looking at that spectrum of tea colours, it seems logical that there should be a yellow nestling in there I’m guessing that the Chinese tea world has christened between green and red. And actually, it’s not only this tea “yellow” for mostly those reasons above, as well unfresh green teas in musty jars that have yellowish as the connection with the revered Yellow Mountains, green leaves. This name category deserves to exist. of course. Could there be an Imperial connection, I Several varieties, including毛峰 (Mao Feng), brush wonder? close to the yellow boundary. So now we’ve rounded out the traffic lights, is it going Actually, Mao Feng is what I thought I was buying just to be possible to push the envelope even further? What before our voluntary quarantine began. I’d asked chance a blue tea? specifically for that. And this stuff in the tall plastic Well, if this yellow tea comes from Yellow Mountain, bag on the floor looked similar enough. surely that creates an opportunity for a famous When the seller named it“黄牙” (Huang Ya), I foreign mountain range. Baidu suggests that there is assumed it to be a sub-category of Mao Feng - which, no“蓝山”(Blue Mountain) in China, except a chain of of course, comes from 黄山 (Huang Shan), the “Yellow coffee shops. Come on, Australia. Here is your chance Mountain” range in Anhui. to shine in tea!

And, by the way, has anyone heard of a purple mountain existing anywhere in the world?

25 OlderIt wasStudents quite a week at the at British Nanjing School International of Nanjing School have afterbeen the taking May partholiday in some as students unusual in Saturday Grades 5 andmorning 6 came back classes. onto Covering campus. the Elsewhere, practical learnersand collaborative across the experiences Primary School that had all beenenjoyed hard to replicatethe first online, NIS Virtual stu‐ dents madeSpirit the Week, most NIS of the Home ex‐ Olympics,tra time with and their our thirdteachers PS to boostVirtual these Assembly. essential skills.

This Little Light of Mine 6 May, 2020

26 OlderStudents atthe British School of Nanjinghave been taking part in some unusual Saturdaymorning classes. Covering the practical and collab- orative experiences thathad beenhard to replicate online, students made the most of the extratimewith theirteachers to boostthese essential skills.

Saturday Morning 25 April, 2020

27 Legal notes from The Nanjinger in association with: D’Andrea & Partners Law Firm

Legal Issues for WeChat Sales of Luxury Brands

ncreasingly, luxury brands choose to sell their products 1. A mini program platform. Tencent relies on its through WeChat mini programs, which makes it easier to copyright, patent and other intellectual property rights Iprovide controllable online shopping services, so can they to provide businesses with the mini program platform avoid the difficulties associated with finding and loading and related technical services, so users can develop mini official websites. programs for brand marketing and other purposes. Since 2016, luxury brands such as Christian Dior, 2. Initiate and direct social media flow. At present, mini Givenchy, Burberry and Channel have taken the lead in programs have multiple portals, such as sharing with WeChat sales and have achieved interesting results. At the friends and in groups, search, QR code scanning, etc., same time, the model of using WeChat mini program for all of which can bring an influx of users. sales means certain problems tend to arise, namely how to 3. Payment. All online transactions can be supported by determine the boundaries of legal liability for platform WeChat payment. operators and how to define the mini programs’ ownership and intellectual property. The ownership and intellectual property rights of the mini programs are relatively clear. According to Article Unlike regular apps, users do not need to download and 1.3 of The Terms and Article 6.1 of the “WeChat Public install WeChat mini programs in order to use them. Platform Service Agreement”, the mini program belongs According to Article 2.3 of the “WeChat Mini Programs to the WeChat public account, and the ownership of the Platform Service Terms” (hereinafter “The Terms”, WeChat public account belongs to Tencent. Users may developers shall conduct initial development, such as only utilise a right of use for the WeChat public account, design, internal testing, editing and maintenance of while such may not be donated, borrowed, leased, registered mini programs. Taking Dior as an example, "Dior transferred or sold. Therefore, mini programs registered Official Mall" is an e-commerce mini program, developed and developed by brands belong to Tencent, while the and coded by Christian Dior. After entering the mini brands only have the right of use. program, it will be displayed in the WeChat interface as a product customisation and purchase interface. According to Article 5 of the The Terms, the intellectual property rights of the services provided by Tencent We tend to understand mini programs as a "web app" from a (including but not limited to web pages, words, pictures, simple point of view. Users only need to search the name of audio, video, charts, etc.) and the copyright, patent and the mini program in WeChat to find and use the mini other intellectual property rights of the software on program. The brand relies on the WeChat mini program which Tencent relies shall belong to Tencent; the platform to develop, operate and manage mini programs. intellectual property rights of the content generated by As for service content, according to Article 1.2 of The Terms, the user in the process of developing the mini program "This service refers to the technical services provided by belong to the user or the relevant right holders. Tencent to users in accordance with this term, including Therefore, for the mini programs developed and the remote interface call, front-end framework development, intellectual property invested by the brand, such items service connection channel, data encryption transmission shall still be owned by the brand. and related Internet application technology, etc.”.According However, when it comes to e-commerce, WeChat’s rules, to Article 6.2 of The Terms, "Tencent only provides you with credit evaluation system, third-party complaint and app services or relevant neutral technical support services dispute handling system have not been improved. The under this term". relatively low registration threshold and audit standard Therefore, we believe that Tencent's mini programs of WeChat mini programs will most likely face many products currently provide the following services: problems moving forward.

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