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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

What’s Another Year? Fear and Respect for Birthday Rituals

Zhuang Shuran -
Do you get the feeling that whenever something good happens, something bad is almost certain to follow? I’m sure that almost everybody has experienced this in one way or another, at one point. There is some truth in the...
Feature Stories

Gift-Giving Traditions; A Cultural Dilemma of Receipt

Edwin Zha -
At the core of every culture, within their respective holidays and customs lie an almost inherent tradition of gift-exchange.  From striped-ribbon boxes that sleep under a tree, to envelopes that don a rich red hue, the idea of “gifts” has...
Feature Stories

Midway Upon the Journey of Our Life

Triona Ryan -
“Midway upon the journey of our life / I found myself within a forest dark / For the straightforward pathway had been lost.” (The Divine Comedy; Dante Alighieri) Do you remember when you were little, thinking “I can’t wait ‘til...
Big Reads

Down to the Stalls; Studying the Surge in China’s Street Markets

Nanjing University Renjianyanhuo Team -
If you want to get to know a city in China, you must visit the street markets in that city, where the stalls are small but big enough for various local-style goods, where the stall owners are by nature...
Feature Stories

What Future for the Freelance Rubbish Recycling Grannies?

Frank Hossack -
You know who they are. Almost without exception, they wear the same clothes every day. Mind you, they seem so dirty that even if they were changed, you would hardly know the difference. Mostly, they are female, but oddities...
Feature Stories

I Eat therefore I am 
But what am I Going to Do about it?

Chesna Goel -
“I am not eating that! It’s been expired for over a year now.”
 “So, what? It doesn’t mean there’s anything wrong with it…” Now this, shockingly, is quite common in my house. Often, we have some old food packets and expired...
Feature Stories

Thou Shalt 
Not Waste: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Reclutter!

Triona Ryan -
Recently, I moved house, because 2020 wasn’t stressful enough.  最近，我搬家了，因为2020年没有足够的压力。 A trek on par with that of Hannibal and his elephants ensued. Friends and neighbours gaped aghast at the endless moving vans, three wheelers and scooters of boxes that zoomed across...
Best of The Nanjinger

How Nanjing Ruins Every Other City

Tom Davidson -
I grew up in a small town in Burgundy, France, called Nevers. It was the kind of unstimulating place that every youth would leave in a rush as soon as they graduated high school, which was pretty much what...

Latest News

Frank Hossack -

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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