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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

Oldest this, Oldest that, Oldest Flower; Nanjinganthus

Renée Gray Beaumont -
"This shouldn’t be here. … This species has been extinct since the Cretaceous period", Paleobotanist, Ellie, in the movie “Jurassic Park” notes while studying a leaf she had just found. Imagine what she might have said had she just...
Big Reads

Rainbow Flatulence, or How Online Millennials Talk to Each Other

Kristen Wang -
Few things are such eye openers than than youth’s use of language when communicating with each other on social media. Such also offers a fascinating snapshot of today’s society as well as being an essential tool for keeping up...
Destinations

Big in Japan (But All Alone)

Kristen Wang -
Concluding my 1 and a half years of study in the UK, I planned to travel alone somewhere else before I got stuck with possible work. I chose Japan to run away from the hustle and bustle of China,...
Destinations

Tianmuhu; 3 Provinces Meet in a Sea of Bamboo

Frank Hossack -
It is often said that Zhuhai should never be confused with Zhuhai, and that pinyin is a lousy replacement for fully-fledged Chinese characters. This year, the Zhuhai (珠海) in Guangdong Province was linked to Hong Kong by the world’s...
Big Reads

Their Home Expatria; Third Culture Kids & their Global Impact

Renée Gray Beaumont -
To be born and raised in the same town, attend the same school and continue on to a local university is fast becoming a thing of the past. Further more so than attending a university not local to your...
Feature Stories

Human on the Inside; Phoenix Man #RichKidofChina

Angela Chen -
As the rough equivalent of the Gatsbies of the West, the Chinese term, “Phoenix Man”, usually refers to Chinese men who were born into poor families, but worked extremely hard in school and went to university, then stayed in...
Feature Stories

Sino Gatsby; Disposable Culture’s Flickering Green Light

Triona Ryan -
Fitzgerald’s enigmatic anti-hero in “The Great Gatsby” has seen a resurgence in popularity at the dawn of the 21st Century as a poster child for optimism, tenacity and the power of a bit of hard slog. Yet, it is...
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Nanjing’s Former Embassies; Reliving Republican Glamour

Renée Gray Beaumont -
It is so hard to imagine China’s flapping days of luxury; Nanjing’s pockets of glitz and glamour, before it all took a turn for the worse, only to revel in its renaissance a century later. 很难想象中国奢华的日子；南京的浮华和魅力的口袋，在一切都变得更糟之前，只是在一个世纪后陶醉于它的复兴。 All too often, modern...

Latest News

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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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