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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

What’s the Colour of Time? Of Direction? Of Space? Of Numbers?

Nic Gibson -
Perceptions: cultural, historical, and biological. Our perceptions colour our experiences, influence our judgments and shape our interactions with other people. 感知：文化、历史和生物学。 我们的感知影响了我们的经历，影响了我们的判断，并塑造了我们与他人的互动。 An oft-quoted anecdote runs that in 1972, Chinese premier Zhou Enlai was asked about the impact of the French...
Feature Stories

Changing the Modus Operandi of Personal Urban Transport

Lillian Paetzold Chen -
What's your idea of getting to work each morning? Getting on that half-broken moped you've had for years and just hoping it makes it? Or maybe you're one of the lucky ones who gets to sit in traffic for...
Feature Stories

Never Ever Have I Ever

Triona Ryan -
I am moving house again. Unwillingly, for the first time ever. My landlord wants to fix all the leaks and cracks and damp and then live there, so we must once again decamp. For the first time ever, I...
Feature Stories

Chinese People will Never EVER do that; Yeah, Right!

Frank Hossack -
New mothers in today’s China are very likely to be seen pushing a pram while looking at their iPhone. 在当今中国的新妈妈们很可能会看到她们一边推着手机一边看着她们的iPhone。 Nothing strange about that, you might think. But let’s back up a little. 你可能会想，这没什么奇怪的。 但让我们退后一点。 When I moved from Shanghai to Nanjing in...
Fiction

True Evol’s Kiss; Prince Charming Awaits outside the Cave…

Felix Campbell -
Makayla sat on her broomstick hovering over the dark twisted trees below, wondering how they were still standing all these years later. She once again, thought back to that time, lazily trying to recall if there were any other...
Local Music

Inside Nanjing’s Music Scene; Meeting the Movers & Shakers (Part 1)

Emma Fang -
Stepping into the coffee house, the first sight I clap eyes on is a young lady sitting by the window. With her hair dyed brown and blue, and gorgeous eyes, she is Liang Zhu (梁竹), one of the lead...
Big Reads

“ESG Investment Pioneer City” Nanjing Expands Investment Network

Admin -
Nanjing, the capital of China's Jiangsu province, is striving to become a pioneer city for ESG (Environment, Social, Governance) investment, with its network of like-minded enterprises continuing to expand. Just four months after the inaugural salon, the "Nanjing Wuxiang...
Feature Stories

What Do TED, Sir Issac Newton & a Lion’s Roar All Have in Common?

Nic Gibson -
A good explanation is an art form, if a slightly mysterious one. 一个好的解释是一种艺术形式，如果这是一种略带神秘的艺术形式。 We can all recognize a great explanation, yet picking apart the intricacies of how it is done remains elusive.  I don’t pretend to have all the answers, but...

Latest News

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German Chemical Giant BASF to Make Chip Materials in Nanjing by 2028

German chemical giant BASF will build a semiconductor materials plant in Nanjing, with start-up expected by the end of...
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China Creates an X-Class of Train Numbers for Services above 350KM/H

China is giving its fastest trains a letter of their own. A new X prefix, read xīn (新, "new"),...
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China’s Brain Banks Need Donors as Human Tissue Reveals Dementia Clues

China’s human brain banks are still struggling to attract donors more than a decade after the first facilities opened,...

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