A Rising Nanjing Thrives on Youth and Art “It was a Saturday night at Tony’s Bar in Nanjing, China, and as in any good university town, packs of rowdy students were making quick work of their pints. A long-haired guitarist in a black leather jacket crooned Chinese love songs from a small stage. Young men bent low over tables playing boisterous dice games while their girlfriends, hair dyed various shades of red and brown, smoked disinterestedly and texted, their faces illuminated by the glow of their phones. ‘I tell my wife I only have two dreams in life,’ said Tony Zhao, the bar’s owner, who was wearing a jacket emblazoned with the English words ‘Viking School Softball,’ low-slung skater jeans and a goatee.’To open a bar in my hometown and to have kids with her.” Thanks to a combination of young entrepreneurs like Mr. Zhao, large numbers of university students and revitalization efforts by the local and national governments, today’s Nanjing has an air of youthful exuberance that would have been unthinkable only a few decades ago.” My next weekend adventure will be a train ride and overnight stay in Nanjing. Is there really anything better than a cheap train ticket, a camera and a weekend left entirely to explore a new (to you) country?  -Amanda, 25, Shanghai

A Rising Nanjing Thrives on Youth and Art

“It was a Saturday night at Tony’s Bar in Nanjing, China, and as in any good university town, packs of rowdy students were making quick work of their pints. A long-haired guitarist in a black leather jacket crooned Chinese love songs from a small stage. Young men bent low over tables playing boisterous dice games while their girlfriends, hair dyed various shades of red and brown, smoked disinterestedly and texted, their faces illuminated by the glow of their phones.

‘I tell my wife I only have two dreams in life,’ said Tony Zhao, the bar’s owner, who was wearing a jacket emblazoned with the English words ‘Viking School Softball,’ low-slung skater jeans and a goatee.’To open a bar in my hometown and to have kids with her.”

Thanks to a combination of young entrepreneurs like Mr. Zhao, large numbers of university students and revitalization efforts by the local and national governments, today’s Nanjing has an air of youthful exuberance that would have been unthinkable only a few decades ago.”

My next weekend adventure will be a train ride and overnight stay in Nanjing. Is there really anything better than a cheap train ticket, a camera and a weekend left entirely to explore a new (to you) country? 

-Amanda, 25, Shanghai

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