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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

An End to Cruelty? Nanjing Leads China in Push for Cultured Meat

Frank Hossack -
Abbatoir. One of those things we wish didn’t exist, perhaps something we hope we could uninvent. But that reality may in fact come to be in the not so distant future, with scientists in Nanjing among those at the...
Feature Stories

Asking Ourselves “What is truth” in a Post-COVID World?

Triona Ryan -
Certain truths seem inimitable, like: Age is just a number.  某些真理似乎不可模仿，比如：年龄只是一个数字。 Wrong! Age is a word. 错了！ 年龄是一个词。 Friedrich Nietzsche helpfully explains in Human, All too Human (1878), “Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.”  弗里德里希·尼采在《人性，太人性化》（1878年）中解釋說：「信念是真理比谎言更危险的敵人。」 Postmodernist, post structuralist, post “Life Jim, but...
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Honestly; Are You Spending too Much on a College Application?

Steven Yeh -
The College Admissions Bribery Scandal of 2019, known as the Operation Varsity Blues Scandal, involved celebrities using their financial power of over US$25 million over 8 years to hire SAT takers to fake SAT scores, bribe coaches and college...
Feature Stories

Next Stop, Honesty; Pick up a Souvenir on Your Way Out

Yixing Zheng -
Apart from some lecture from whatever moral authority, can you really point out why exactly honesty is good? 除了任何道德权威的一些讲座外，你真的能指出为什么诚实是好的吗？ To answer this question, let’s go back to ancient China. The Warring States. Chaos and turbulence. A determined philosopher who trekked across...
Feature Stories

Water; Meeting Point of Chinese Philosophy and Martial Arts


Triona Ryan -
"Nothing in the worldIs as soft and yielding as water.Yet for dissolving the hard and inflexible,Nothing can surpass it." Preeminent Chinese philosopher, Laozi (老子) The Old Boy, Laozi, is one of China’s most renowned philosophers. Hailing from Quren, a hamlet in...
Feature Stories

Water, Water, Everywhere, Nor any Drop to Drink

Frank Hossack -
While we speed along in a high-speed train on our way to Shanghai through the water towns of southern Jiangsu Province; Wuxi, Suzhou et al, it’s sobering to think that a little more than a decade ago, not only...
Feature Stories

Following in Other’s Water Footprints? Time to Reduce!

Chesna Goel -
Chesna Goel from Nanjing International School reminds us on the importance of reducing our water footprint. 南京国际学校的Chesna Goel提醒我们减少水足迹的重要性。 “Don’t! We don’t want your money; just get us some food and water, please!” “不要！ 我们不想要你的钱；请给我们拿点食物和水！” Last year during the holidays, my family and I...
Big Reads

The Visiting Professor

Norman Cherry -
One of the great joys of leaving my post as a senior manager in a British university 6 years ago was the freedom to take up some of the many invitations I had been receiving for years to visit...

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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