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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.

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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...
Feature Stories

Our Summer’s Been Shanghaied, or Nanjinged!

Triona Ryan -
“This time 3 years ago…” Facebook, my former social media friend, has become a taunting menace this summer. Serving up fresh pictures of cerulean blue skies, endless horizon shots from 5 in the morning ‘til midnight creeps close, Galician delights...
Feature Stories

Rains & Accordians; Weather as Gauge to Emotion & Achievement


Steven Yeh -
Without a doubt, the weather is an ornament of our life with the potential to change our influx of emotions, but even so, we can influence how it changes, predominantly, through our mindset. For instance, because people habitually associate...
Big Reads

Nanjing’s Cultural Attractions; Unity through Destruction?

Roxana Wang -
Upon the relics of our ancestors, we strew technology and investment in the name of reinvigoration. Then, on those formerly dusty sites, we gladly bestow the brand-new architecture with blossoming light bulbs and vining glass ornaments.    我们以复兴的名义，在我们祖先的遗迹上洒满了技术和投资。然后，在那些曾经尘土飞扬的场地上，我们很高兴地为全新的建筑赋予了绽放的灯泡和藤蔓玻璃装饰品。 Such is how...
Feature Stories

Are Global Warming & Less Pollution Changing Nanjing’s Weather?

Frank Hossack -
Nanjing’s weather, as many a Chinese will tell you, is known nationwide as a “furnace”. It’s a formidable beast, indeed, but it’s also one that has changed beyond all recognition over the past few decades, a point that 2020...
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20 Days’ Out Ideas for Families Spending the Holidays in Nanjing

Frank Hossack -
Much herein cannot be found in the guidebooks; some suggestions are plain-pretty material for WeChat Moments, while many others take advantage of Nanjing being steeped in history to offer educational opportunity for both the young and history buffs. Tunnel of...
Feature Stories

Innovation; Did China Teach the World How to Fail Better?

Triona Ryan -
There is a common connotative warmth associated with the term innovation. In a culture that glorifies success and celebrates triumph over adversity, innovation is applauded, while the flipside of Icarian plummets is less lauded. 与“创新”一词相关的一种共同的內涵温暖。 在一个美化成功和庆祝战胜逆境的文化中，创新受到赞扬，而Icarian暴跌的反面则不那么受到赞扬。 It may seem paradoxical, a fallacy,...
Feature Stories

Innovators in China Small Business Satisfy Expat Cravings

Donyell Marshall -
Natalie Amezcua, an English teacher from Los Angeles, was not expecting a lot last August when she arrived in Nanjing looking for a taste of home. 来自洛杉矶的英语教师Natalie Amezcua去年8月到达南京寻找家的味道时，并没有期待太多。 Two years of living in Korea had taught her to temper her expectations....

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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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