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7 Tons of Fruit Comprises University Student Graduation Gift

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Graduation time! It’s been that time of year again for university and colleges all over China, and a nice gift for each graduate has become a prerequisite. In seeking to be a little different, quite a few have come...
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Getting Naked! Is it too Hot even for Nanjing’s Wutong Trees?

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Who doesn’t love Nanjing’s Wutong trees? They keep us cool (relatively) on days such as this and make our city’s boulevards among the most beautiful in China. But some now worry they are getting sick, or they’re simply too...
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Humiliation and Shame for Nanjing in Helping out Hangzhou Metro

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Nanjing no longer has the fifth longest metro network in China. That honour now goes to Hangzhou, but the irony of it is, we made the trains that enabled the city to steal our title. And providing for our...
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Back in the Air but Man Refused Boarding for NAT 3 Mins Overdue

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Getting on for 2 and a half years into the Pandemic, airlines flying to China are finally seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. But would-be fliers should take heed of the experience of one passenger who...
Best of The Nanjinger

All Hope Abandon Ye Who Enter Here; Talk Like a True Nanjinger

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Listen closely to the vocabulary employed in everyday use by many a Nanjinger and you would be forgiven for imagining a preoccupation with Dante’s vision of the afterlife. 仔细聆听许多南京人在日常生活中使用的词汇，你会被原谅想象对但丁对来世的愿景的痴迷。 I’m starving to death! I’m dying of thirst! I’m freezing to death! 我快饿死了！...
Great Nanjingers

The Knighted Nanjinger & a Top Dog in Hong Kong; Harry Fang

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Sir Harry Fang Sin-yang (方心讓), GBM, CBE, JP, had a list of titles as long as your arm. An orthopedic surgeon widely known as the "father of rehabilitation” and a champion of those with mobility issues, he rose to...
Building the Best; Architectural Highlights of Nanjing

The Building of Nanjing (7); Nanjing Port Waiting Room

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It’s the place where the lower and upper classes would be required to intermingle ahead of an assuredly somewhat long journey. With air travel a thing of the future, and not a single bridge across the mighty Yangtze River,...
Reviews

Ice Cream & Oyster Platter is (Probably) not what You Think

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More or less stumbling in at random, on one of those can’t-be-bothered-cooking kinds of days, we were glad we chose Oyster Bistro from among the many newish eateries to have popped up in past year or two on Hubin...
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About Me

Editor-in-Chief of The Nanjinger, Frank Hossack, is a multi-award winning Radio/TV host and voice-over artist who has worked in China for the past 32 years. Frank has also written for Time magazine, the Wall Street Journal and The Times, appeared on the BBC and LBC, and been cited by CNN, China Daily and the New York Times, among many others.
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Tasty Solutions on the Menu at Shanghai Climate Week

Shanghai Climate Week coincides with Earth Day and highlights China's dual-carbon commitments. And while its object as also a...
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Why is the Shanghai Government Sniffing around Our Back Yard? 

Shanghai-Nanjing Innovation Belt emerges, with Putuo District driving cross-regional collaboration to boost economic growth for 50+ million people Putuo officials...
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Nanjing’s International Flights; All Change for Summer Schedule

April is rolling around, and with it comes a new schedule for flights in and out of Nanjing Lukou...

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