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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

I’m Still Standing; Few Nanjing CD Shops Survive Online Assault

Frank Hossack -
China is a fickle thing when it comes to technology; embracing the latest thing today and dumping it for something else tomorrow. So it is therefore coming to pass that the CD is now virtually all but a memory. 在技术方面，中国是一个善變的東西；今天接受最新的事物，明天把它扔掉。...
Destinations

Sanya; Paradise without the Price Tag

Ollie Williams -
Ordinarily, it’s no contest that I’d choose culture and cuisine over a nice beach and agreeable climate. Yet, with direct flights to Sanya from Lukou at around ¥500 each way promising pastures greener in just over 3 hours, it...
Feature Stories

Abracadabra! China’s Reawakening Interest in Magic No Illusion

Molly Wright -
Up on the stage, the “fish” first played in the court and then all at once jumped into the pool, immediately turning into a large flounder, spraying water and vomiting fog. Suddenly, in the mist, it became an eight-foot...
Feature Stories

Hell is Empty and All the Devils are Here

Chesna Goel -
Thunder roared as the rain had poured down on our heads. We dashed to our destination. The patter of rain hit the concrete. Dripping wet, we entered one of the theatre world’s most spectacular gems, the Nanjing Poly Theatre....
Feature Stories

Gateways to the West; 40 Years of Nanjing-St. Louis Sisterhoodfeat

Renée Gray Beaumont -
In 1978, China began her period of Reform and Opening Up (găigé kāifàng; 改革开放). One of the ways China opened up to the world was through the official forming of city and province “sister partnerships”. Today, Nanjing boasts 20...
Feature Stories

Internationalising Nanjing; Helping Hands for the Foreigners

Frank Hossack -
With no effort being spared this year at raising the international level of Nanjing, new non-profit organisations are popping up all over the city, in all divisions of society; organisations such as the Nanjing Foreign Affairs Service Association (NFASA). 今年不遗余力地将南京提升到国际水平，新的非营利组织正在城市各处出现，社会各阶层；如南京外交服务协会（NFASA）等组织。 There...
Feature Stories

Sisters Are Doin’ it for Themselves

Renée Gray Beaumont -
Are you familiar with the Chinese term “yŏuhăo chéngshì”?Perhaps Sister Cities or Twin Towns? 你熟悉中文术语“yŏuhăo chéngshì”吗？ 也许是姐妹城市或双城？ When two cities from different countries form a relationship, it is formally recognised as such after both head officials of the cities meet and...
Destinations

Beers for Barack & Bourdain in Hanoi

Donyell Marshall -
The first order of business was learning how to cross the street. There are 5 million motorbikes in Hanoi among a population of about 7 million. They rush in and out of intersections like floodwaters. Pedestrian crossings are nothing...

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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