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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

The Honeyguides & the Hunter Gatherers; Human-Beast Teamwork

Emma Schneider -
We typically associate the concept of teamwork as a human act since cooperative behaviour is one of the hardwired characteristics that feeds in to human nature as a whole.  我们通常将团队合作的概念与人类行为联系起来，因为合作行为是整个人性中滋养的固有特征之一。 Yet, another way to look at this collaborative notion is through...
Feature Stories

The Rise of AI in Teamwork; Taking the Team Out of I-work

Triona Ryan -
"There’s no ‘I’ in the word team." “团队这个词里没有'我'。” How many times has this old chestnut been trotted out by educators and coaches worldwide to inspire and entice reluctant collaborators? Too many, probably. Definitely so many that one definitive rejoinder is now...
Feature Stories

What is the Very Pinnacle of Collaboration? L.O.V.E

Rain Zhong -
Schools of fish swim together, packs of wolves hunt together, flocks of geese migrate together. Armies of ants can build whole civilisations underground, gathering food for all to eat. Prides of lions can take down full grown elephants if...
Big Reads

Driverless Bus! Test Drive Shows How to Save the World in Wuxi

Frank Hossack -
Cynics would have you that autonomous vehicles would never work in China; its roads too lawless, their users too reckless or malicious. Likewise for the enormous environmental but futile challenge confronting the planet; that shutting down the internal-combustion engine...
Local Music

Inside Nanjing’s Music Scene; Meeting the Movers & Shakers (Part 4)

Emma Fang -
Walking into the personal apartment rented by Mr. Zhang, my first impression was “neat”. Though the room wasn’t very large, a warm feeling emerged in my heart. Outside was the cold wind and falling temperature, but Mr. Zhang greeted...
Big Reads

In Conversation with He who Walked Length of Yangtze… Ash Dykes

Frank Hossack -
The extreme Adventurer & three Time World Record Holder who walked breadth of Mongolia; entire length of Madagascar, summiting its eight highest mountains; & the whole 6,363 KM of our Yangtze River, on almost giving up 5 days into...
Money Talks

Money Talks (iv); Is a Stock Market Crash Looming?

Chris Golding -
Experienced investors know that there’s always background noise in the market claiming the next "big one" is coming. We hear all the time about the next stock market crash, comparable to The Great Depression of 1929, or that great...
Big Reads

Top Tales to Tell; What are Nanjing’s Weirdest Street Names?

Frank Hossack -
Streets regale us of stories, reflecting warmth in the shadows of the changing times, telling the vicissitudes of life over time and space, and revealing the prosperity of our City; the grandest City of Nanjing, for all its wondrous weirdness. 街道充满故事，在时代变迁的阴影中折射出温暖，诉说着时空的沧桑，展现着城市的繁华；南京最宏伟的城市，尽管它有很多奇妙的怪异之处。 Beginning up north...

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...
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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:...
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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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