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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

Out Damned Yellow! Out I Say; The Key is Acceptance, Not Cure

Ryan Thorpe -
Mariel had been told that she’d been born white as wedding-cake frosting, but she wasn’t white anymore.  Mariel被告知，她出生时是白色的，就像婚礼蛋糕糖霜一样，但她不再是白人了。 She looked down at her hands and saw the yellow collected on her fingers like she had been playing with corn flour. It...
Big Reads

From Rags to Riches; The ¥10 Billion Garlic Production Base in Jiangsu

Frank Hossack -
Large Scale, Industrial Farming is Finally Catching on in China. For those who Played their Cards Right, it’s become a Veritable Garlic Mine. 大规模工业化农业终于在中国流行起来。对于那些玩对了的人来说，它已经成为名副其实的大蒜矿。 A county-level city under the administration of Xuzhou City in Jiangsu’s far northwest with a population of...
Feature Stories

We Want You (to Come over Here); Body Language Communication

Emma Schneider -
Have you ever realised the significance of the role that gestures have and continue to play throughout our lives?  你有没有意识到手势在我们一生中发挥和继续发挥的作用的重要性？ The word by definition means, “a movement of part of the body, to express an idea or meaning”. As infants, when...
Feature Stories

Wordless Teaching Conversations; Gesturing in Vain to K-1C

Hattie -
Robin had read a while ago that most of a conversation is conveyed without words.  不久前，Robin读到过，大多数对话都是不用语言传达的。 She’d dismissed it at the time, citing her own drastic inability to guess at people’s words and meanings without being explicitly told, and when the...
Big Reads

Crazy Hairdressers & 1956 Former Cinema Now Interactive Theatre

Frank Hossack -
As the audience entered, hair dryers, music and the sound of toilets flushing were heard in the theatre during warm up. 当观众入场时，影院里响起了热身时的吹风机、音乐和冲厕所的声音。 “Who wants to wash their hair?”, or, “Which lady needs a manicure?”, were the refrains which came from the...
Big Reads

Gestures as Catalyst for Change; Making it Count on Women’s Day

Triona Ryan -
As the balmy sun nudges me from my winter slumber, I feel an almost euphoric delight to live in the Southern Capital, primed to enjoy the Spring on Steroids that is passing as I type.  当和煦的阳光将我从冬眠中唤醒时，我对生活在南方首都感到一种几乎欣喜若狂的喜悦，准备好享受在我打字时流逝的类固醇春天。 But in March, Women’s History...
Feature Stories

Noise, Madness, Pain; Seeking Moments of Quiet in a Loud Life

Bobbie Ali -
“Lucky, you hear that?”  “幸运，你听到了吗？” I ask as I pull the pillow over my head, awakening from a restless sleep. I look over at Lucky, who climbs over to me and nuzzles my cheek, and I scratch behind his ears.  我一边问，一边把枕头拉到头上，从不安分的睡眠中醒来。 我看着Lucky，他爬到我身边，抚摸着我的脸颊，我挠了挠他的耳朵后面。 I...
Feature Stories

Silence is Golden; Take Care, Vehicle Reversing (请注意倒车)

Frank Hossack -
We used to have a kettle. A kind of fancy thing that could not only boil water, but also keep it at various nominated temperatures for hours. Trouble was the blessed thing would beep incessantly and loudly every time...

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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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