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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.

7 Days in Diplomacy; this Week in Chinese History

On this Day in Chinese History; 30 January

Frank Hossack -
This day, 30 January, in 2004, the “China-Arab States Cooperation Forum” was established during Chinese President Hu Jintao’s visit to the Arab League headquarters in Cairo, Egypt. This was to lead to a 2018 agreement to establish a future-oriented,...
Feature Stories

When was the Last Time You Saw a Turtle Walk Backwards?

Rain Zhong -
We are all on the move. The Earth orbits the sun, spins around on its own axis. The wind blows, trees waver in its breeze; waves rise and fall, seawater evaporates into the clouds, and drops back down in...
Best of The Nanjinger

All Change Here for Nanjing Metro’s most Ridiculous Interchanges

Frank Hossack -
Stepping off a Nanjing Metro train that has come into Nanjing South Railway Station from Lukou International Airport, there is immediately noticeable the several individuals who sprint the 15 metres or so across the platform to board an awaiting...
Feature Stories

On the Move with an Existential Crisis

Samuel Wilson -
Let me set the scene…  I’m sitting outside Nanjing Railway Station on a slightly chilly November morning sipping on my Americano; too hot and bitter but I need it at this time of morning; and munching down my morning “baozi”....
Fiction

The Rider; When a Mysterious Stranger Takes to the Silk Road…

Marc Belisle -
The porter opened the caravanserai gates reluctantly. The rider was unusual. Caravans rode on a relay. They loaded priceless porcelains and sensuous silks in crates, onto the humps of Bactrian camels, rode west for days or weeks to the nearest...
Building the Best; Architectural Highlights of Nanjing

The Building of Nanjing (22); Former British Embassy

Frank Hossack -
With Nanjing as capital of China prior to Beijing, so too it was home to the embassies of many countries during the Republican era. Some are well preserved, still standing strong to this day and open to the public,...
Strainer

Leaky Logic; How Britain Tried to Ruin the Teapot

Matthew Stedman -
The tea was oolong, with just a hint of Formosa-perfume-tanginess. Or was it a hint of detergent? Anyway, this was a nice restaurant, too nice for pouring spilt water onto the floor.  This was a rare lunch with my teenage...
Destinations

Macau; Convergence of Catholicism & Global Cardinal to 100% Unashamed Capitalism

Frank Hossack -
John Waite was belting out, “Missing You”, as we stepped into a taxi outside Macau International Airport. That, along with the fact that the vehicle was a Toyota Crown, affirmed that Macau is similar to Hong Kong, the Philippines...
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Latest News

Frank Hossack -

Foreigners Coming to Nanjing Return to Near Pre-COVID Levels

Certainly it can be felt on the streets of Nanjing these days. Our city is once again “en vogue”...
Frank Hossack -

Just how has Suzhou become a Hotbed for the Private Economy?

Suzhou’s GDP in the 1st quarter of this year topped half a trillion renminbi, a year-on-year growth of 7.9...
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Nanjing-Melbourne Flight Marks 45 Years as Sister State Friends

Check in counters might be the oddest of places to hold an anniversary celebration for 45 years of ties...
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