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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

Escaping Nanjing’s Summer; 7 Natural Air Conditioners

Kristen Wang -
With the hottest season of the year approaching and the school holidays either upon us or almost upon us, so many seek to escape the furnace that is Nanjing, choosing to travel to cooler cities for a summer break....
Big Reads

Summer Hits; Top 7 Running Spots for Joggers

Kristen Wang -
For the joggers amongst us, it becomes a tricky task to find a suitable running route in a congested urban environment, especially when also factoring in traffic noise and pollution, as well as that rocketing mercury in the thermometer. 对于我们这些慢跑者来说，在拥堵的城市环境中找到一条合适的跑步路线是一项棘手的任务，特别是当考虑到交通噪音和污染，以及温度计中汞的火箭时。 Well-known...
Feature Stories

Between the Tracks; Ancient Pukou

Edmund Culham -
6am:a corner of Pukou, chickens scratch the ground between the railway tracks; sunrise. 早上6点：普口的一个角落，鸡在铁轨之间抓地；日出。 A prevalence of old faces, those who have risen with the dawn. Some exercise with slow movements by the side of the road, others still decked out...
Destinations

Wugongshan; Get off of My Cloud!

Kristi Allen -
It was a grey and drizzly day when we arrived at Wugongshan, so we couldn’t really understand why everyone was telling us we were lucky to see the sacred mountain that day. 当我们到达武功山时，那是一个灰濛濛的细雨天，所以我们真的不明白为什么每个人都告诉我们那天能看到这座圣山是幸运的。 Soon enough though, we would be standing atop...
Big Reads

China’s 4 Types of Entertainment TV; 3 are Fake

Kristen Wang -
Entertainment television shows in China have experienced profound change over the last 30 years. From the beginning of the 1990s to the present, China's entertainment shows have experienced different stages of development, such as Hong Kong-Taiwan influenced, Europe influenced...
Feature Stories

My Smelly Memories; Nanjing Museum Exhibits the Persuasive Sense

Kristen Wang -
The smell of an apple pie down on the street wafts through the air. Suddenly, the memory that your mum cooked in the kitchen after your school finished surges into your head. Or maybe it’s a whiff of a...
Feature Stories

Music for the Masses; A Sense of Magnificence

Frank Hossack -
2019 is a big year for anniversaries in China, not least the birth of the Chinese nation itself 70 years ago. Completely unpublicised, however, is the fact that it is also 30 years since the New York Times ran...
Feature Stories

The Sixth Sense; Calculating Tarot’s Rise in China

Renée Gray Beaumont -
Down a an alleyway off the beaten path of the bohemian Old Town in Changsha, Hunan Province, between a vape and a skate shop, hangs a circular sign bearing the Chinese characters for Tarot (塔罗). It points deeper into...

Latest News

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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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