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The Nanjinger arose from a dream that a city with a history as long, and a status as important, as Nanjing, deserves a world-class English media outlet. Beginning life in 2009 and evolving into being the city’s English media of record, The Nanjinger brings the international and English-speaking community a wide and varied selection of news and features about Nanjing, its surrounding area, and Chinese culture, while adhering to international journalistic standards as to both impartiality and objectivity.

Feature Stories

But I have to be Beautiful (& don’t Care what You Look Like)

Frank Hossack -
Showing off one’s self in the best possible light is a natural human attribute. But, just as with everything else, in China that concept is taken to new levels. Political correctness be damned; body pride is the way to...
Money Talks

Money Talks (viii); Managing Investments in Challenging Times

Chris Golding -
Holding your nerve can pay dividends in the long term. When the world feels uncertain, it’s easy for most investors to get anxious. Market highs, the challenges we face, conflicts in the Middle East and eastern Europe, economic headwinds...
Destinations

Pears & Poetry! Springtime in Best Kept Secret Water Town; Lili

Frank Hossack -
Way down deep in Suzhou’s south lies the crown jewel in all of China’s Jiangnan water towns. Affording deep contemplation, millennium-old authenticity, untroubled tranquility among the blossoms and credentials in poetry beyond compare; all are about to come knocking...
Feature Stories

My Big Fat Kuaidi Wedding

Samuel Wilson -
Chinese weddings are no meagre affair. Copious amounts of food, baijiu, the colour red filled the wedding venue; lest we forget the guests themselves. With this “姐” (“jie”; sister) and that “哥” (“ge”; brother) all staring at the grinning...
Feature Stories

Where Did All Our Time Go? A Kuaidi Kween Komments

Triona Ryan -
A kettle sits in my front garden, inside a wedge of polystyrene in a cardboard box. I know for sure it is a kettle, because I justbought a new one. On Taobao.  一个水壶放在我的前花园里，在一个纸板箱里的聚苯乙烯楔子里。 我确定这是一个水壶，因为我刚买了一个新的。 在淘宝上。 The piercing whistle of the old...
Fiction

The Velda Delivery; House 9, 1st Av., Unity St., Torrent City

Rhoda -
Stephanie read the address out loud, hoping that this time, it would ring a bell. Sadly, just like every time before now, she came up blank. In her almost fifteen years of being a delivery person, she had never...
Local Music

Inside Nanjing’s Music Scene; Meeting the Movers & Shakers (Part 6)

Emma Fang -
“Music saves people’s spirits. Becoming a singer is not only about earning money and supporting life. We hope that our songs can comfort those who have lost their hope to activate their confidence and hope for the future”, said...
Big Reads

Connectivity! What on Earth is Yangtze River Delta Integration?

Frank Hossack -
Something is immediately apparent upon crossing the border from Jiangsu into Zhejiang Province. A sudden deterioration in quality of road surface. 从江苏越过边境进入浙江省后，一些事情立即显现出来。路面质量突然恶化。 And that happens at the border’s toll gate, where the Jiangsu government collects a slice of cash from every...

Latest News

Frank Hossack -

Iranians in China become more Visible than Countable

These things often start, not with a statistic, but with a voice; Persian heard in a lift, a WeChat...
Frank Hossack -

Why Chinese Men Can’t Quit; Smoking, Face and the State

China has 300 million smokers, nearly a third of the world's total. The imbalance between the sexes is stark:...
Frank Hossack -

US Dept of Justice Says Nanjing Firm Hacked NASA, Senate & More

A sharp new cyber case has put a Nanjing company at the centre of a much wider political row....

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