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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.

Destinations

Reliving the Past on Suzhou’s Pingjiang Lu

Frank Hossack -
Few words capture the spirit of Suzhou’s Pingjiang Lu better than “enchanting”. As a true step back in time, this is the place to relive the old, to find some authenticity that dates back as far as the Song...
Destinations

Poetry & Foreign Trade amid Classical Architecture

Frank Hossack -
The crested letters, “VR”, adorn the former British Consulate’s wall in Zhenjiang. They stand for Victoria Reign, from Britain’s then Queen Victoria. As a great place from which to begin a visit to Zhenjiang, they are also just a...
Destinations

Boats & Beaches; The Surf, Sands & Slipways of Lianyungang

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China may not be known for pristine beaches in the same way that the Caribbean or other parts of southeast Asia are. But that doesn’t mean they don’t exist. And we’re not talking about Qingdao where the grains of...
Destinations

The Four Unlikenesses; Up Close and Personal with David’s Deer

Frank Hossack -
Have a close look at the accompanying, beautiful photograph. Notice anything out of the ordinary? 仔细看看随附的漂亮照片。 注意到有什么不寻常的事情吗？ These deer’s antlers are facing backwards. 这些鹿的鹿角朝后。 Part deer, part horse, part cow, part donkey; say hello to the “Milu”, or “Père David's Deer”. Outside of...
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All Hope Abandon Ye Who Enter Here; Talk Like a True Nanjinger

Frank Hossack -
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！...
Feature Stories

The Professional Chameleonic Unicorn; Vernaculars from Oz to Tipperary

Triona Ryan -
Listening to a podcast with some of my kids this week, I paused when their eyes went glassy and asked them, “Do you understand?” They made that vague sound of wanting to say yes but having to admit that,...
Feature Stories

The Princess in the Tower (Wrong Princess, Right Tower)

Hattie -
There was once a princess locked away in a tall tower. Kept away from all who might claim her beauty, covet her loveliness, take her virtue. And then one day there was a prince, fair and tall and from...
Big Reads

A Perfect Goodbye; Saying Farewell to Nanjing

Lillian Paetzold Chen -
As we welcome the sunshine and summer breeze, some of us will be saying goodbye to friends we’ve met along the way who will be leaving the city of Nanjing. So why not take this opportunity to say a...

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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