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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

Innovating an Artificial Moon to Replace Street Lights

Chesna Goel -
The Four Great Inventions of paper, gunpowder, printing and the compass are the four most amazing and revolutionising innovations that came from ancient China. In the modern world, creative innovations include the first AI teaching assistant, making a house...
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Taking on the Taklamakan

Frank Hossack -
The word “Taklamakan” is said to mean “Place of No Return”. That China is now embarking on the final section of a railway line that will encircle the entire desert, by 2022 it will be possible to turn that...
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Nanjing’s Foreign Fashion Insiders on the Impact of Covid-19

Donyell Marshall -
“I’m really into purple velvet right now”, Rosie Colvin said. “Think Willy Wonka, or maybe Prince.That’s my vibe.” The UK fashion designer was discussing her dream ensemble for when she’d finally be released from quarantine. Currently waiting for permission to...
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Opening a Can of Bats; Face-Masked Fusions of Fashion

Triona Ryan -
“We’ll burn that bridge when we get to it” is one of my father’s favourite sayings. “Until the cows freeze over” is another. “当我们到达那座桥时，我们会把它烧掉”是我父亲最喜欢的谚语之一。 “直到奶牛冻僵”是另一个。 A blended idiom or cliché is called a malaphor. The combination of two hitherto unrelated concepts...
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Are All Things Nanjing Fashionable? Only if they’re Online!

Wang Yutong -
It’s really difficult not to think of fashion when you think of a Nanjinger. Everything we know is coloured by something or other; in the case of Nanjing, the fashion that stands out is the Nanjing dialect, “Nankinese”, because...
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Lonely Islands; the Outbreak Seen from Within a “Bubble”

Roxana Wang -
“My parents, who are doctors, say that the ‘pneumonia’ is more serious than we think”, said my friend, frowning. It was late January, and she in her face mask looked overcautious beside the fashionable ladies in Xinjiekou, who strode...
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Hope Will Come; The Human Spirit Endures (an Anecdotal Pandemic)

Michael Santiago -
24 hours.  24小时。 This was when a situation, without notice, became dire, and life was uprooted in a sliver of time. Reminiscent of a scene from bygone pandemic films; a city of nearly 8 million inhabitants went into full quarantine. Face...
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Hume, Hope & Happiness; A Tradition of Human Survival

Triona Ryan -
Traditions tell us how to be who we are. This year, for the first time in the history of The Republic, Ireland has had to cancel its St. Patrick’s Day Parades, and even worse, the pubs have been closed...

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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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