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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.

Big Reads

Brazilian Jiu Jitsu takes Nanjing by Storm

Lillian Paetzold Chen -
Starting as a minority sport, it has now taken Nanjing by storm. The martial art that is jiu jitsu has become a pastime for many, ranging from 4-year olds to even the matured. What prompted this noticeable rise in...
Feature Stories

The Pasta Aquarium (Slurp, Smack, Slurp, Smack; I Need Goggles!)

Morgan Gallup Zhu -
Perhaps if I had chosen a different restaurant, I pondered to myself, this would have turned out differently.  也许如果我选择了另一家餐厅，我心想，结果会有所不同。 This particular Italian restaurant had seemed like the ideal spot for a first date. The room was candle lit and elegantly topped...
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The Productive (and-not-so Productive) Ways to Hibernate

Nahee Kim -
Observing the world during the past 24 months, it seems that the most apparent hibernating species is not the commonly perceived, good-old garden-variety bear, but instead the Homo Sapien. 观察过去24个月的世界，似乎最明显的冬眠物种不是人们普遍认为的、古老的花园品种熊，而是智人。 Ever since the COVID pandemic began, public spaces around the world...
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The Tale of Todd (Cruelly Locked in His Cave)

Hattie -
Not long ago, and in a world where these kinds of happenings were commonplace, lived a family of bears. Now, they might have looked identical to your average Earth Brown Bear, and indeed they had many of the same...
Feature Stories

Are We There Yet? Please Tell me Humans Can Hibernate!

Triona Ryan -
In my miseducated youth, I used to try to power through the winter with an “Are we there yet?” attitude. 在我受过教育的年轻时，我曾经试图用“我们到那里了吗？”来度过冬天。 态度。 Overwhelm, exhaustion and meltdowns over the course of several decades finally led to a kinder approach to winter. Since...
Feature Stories

Threats & Saviours; The Stereotypes Shaping Our World

Chesna Goel -
Saying that stereotypes are negative is a stereotype in itself.We often forget is that some of the simplest things we do, without a care, are based on stereotypes. Obviously, everyone’s different, so we react in different ways, but for...
Feature Stories

Speaking with Sharp Tongues; Touring China’s Stereotypes

Frank Hossack -
For as long as there have been people, there have been comparisons drawn between them. No matter where on Earth, people have thrived off stereotypes, been shocked and amused by them in equal measure. 只要有人，他们之间就会有比较。 无论在地球上的什么地方，人们都从陈规定型观念中茁壮成长，同样被它们所震惊和逗樂。 Today’s politically correct new world...
Big Reads

Doing it the Hard Way; Nanjing’s Own (Half Foreign) Cider Brand

Frank Hossack -
Theoretically, Chinese people should absolutely love cider. Theoretically. But of course they don’t. Or rather, they didn’t. And seeking a spot near the top of those emerging tastes is a home grown cider brand, of Chinese and American descent. Theoretically,...

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Baby on Board in High Speed Train Emergency Delivered by Urologist into Nanjing

Mid-journey between Shanghai and Nanjing, a routine high-speed train service turned into an improvised delivery room, when a lady...
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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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