Wuhan, Hubei

Second Season of the Splendid Yangtze River
Episode 4:

Wuhan is shaped by the culture of the #YangtzeRiver, and locals absolutely treasure their time on the water. 🚣‍♂️🌊

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en octobre 2025!

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🗺️ Et si les cartes racontaient autre chose que des territoires ?
🗺️ Plongez dans l’histoire fascinante de la cartographie chinoise à travers l’œuvre d’Édouard Chavannes.
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#Histoire #Cartographie #Chine #Science

L'aéroport de Wuhan de 2012 à 2025

Réunion de travail Nancy Wuhan dans le cadre de la Filière Médicale Francophone

Selective use of AI in teaching and learning - Lately, I have asked one of my private students to answer a rather simple question (Is East Lake in Wuhan the largest urban lake in the world?). My student immediately went on Kimi and asked the Chinese AI-Chatbot an identical question. The answer Kimi gave was negative: “No, bla bla bla …”.
Then I asked my 13-year old student if we had missed out on some learning opportunities. The student nodded affirmatively, though hesitantly. We then began splitting up the main question in sub-questions:
- Sub-question 1: as everyone in China is familiar with East Lake (Wuhan) and West Lake (Hangzhou), we asked ourselves following question: Is East Lake larger than West Lake? My student was in the understanding that West Lake is larger than East Lake, however, our Chatbot indicated a size of 1,65 square kilometer for West Lake compared to 88 square kilometer for East Lake - this was our first highly valuable learning moment
- Sub-question 2: Is East Lake the largest urban lake in China? My student was convinced that East Lake is the largest lake in China, although Kimi informed us that Tangxun Lake (also located in Wuhan) was officially cited as the largest urban lake in China. The phrasing - ‘cited as largest’, without specifying the size, felt suspicious. This brought us to our third sub-question (this subquestion led to some new discoveriesq )
- Sub-question 3: How to decide a lake is an urban lake? This time we consulted AI (My student - Kimi; Me - Perplexity) - “an urban lake can be understood as a natural or artificial freshwater body within or closely associated with urban areas, influenced by urban land use and development patterns, and serving multiple ecological and social roles in the urban environment” (Perplexity). Using this description we concluded that Tangxun Lake (only for 25% closely associated with urban areas) could not be categorized as urban lake. Conclusion - East Lake is the largest urban lake in China (confirmation)
- Sub-question 4: from China to the rest of the world or our main question - Is East Lake the largest urban lake in the world? Here it becomes interesting and tricky at the same time as the Caspian Sea is by many sites cited as largest lake in the world. Unfortunately, it cannot be categorized as an urban lake. We continued reading and read that the Lake Michigan-Huron is officially recognized as the largest urban lake in the world with a size of 117, 620 square kilometers

In the next hour, we moved into an artistic photography session - a time we spend without using AI. What is your concept? What feelings do you want to express? How are you going to manipulate the photography setting? And which photography techniques will you use?

Above photos (created by my student), based on the idea that Chinese students are under tremendous pressure in middle school education, expressing feelings like hardship, loneliness, and depression

Cet essai dresse le portrait de la ville de Wuhan qui est au cœur de l'actualité depuis l'apparition du Covid-19, et relate les expériences du confinement racontées par ses habitants ordinaires, mêlant souffrance, désespoir, indignation et élan de solidarité. Première ville du centre de la Chine, avec plus de 11 millions d'habitants et une superficie de 8569 km2, Wuhan, une ville déjà mondialisée, a été tout à coup placée en janvier 2020 sous les projecteurs des médias du monde entier (…)

As younger consumers favor experiences over products, “curator”-led cafés and boutiques have sprung up across China. Yet with growing pushback against overpriced, underwhelming offerings, is this trendy fad already losing its appeal?

Les délégations de Nancy et de Wuhan, avec Antoine Le Solleuz, Conseiller aux relations internationales de la ville de Nancy