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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

Little Emperor Syndrome; China’s Empathy or Lack Thereof

Stacy Dahl -
Without empathy, we would be robots, merely existing without the ability to connect. Sure, parents would still take care of their children and we would go on with our day-to-day lives, but there would never again be a shoulder...
Feature Stories

A Walk in Their Shoes; China & the World’s Empathy Paradox

Felicity Crook -
Imagine it’s Sunday afternoon, you exit Suguo with your week’s worth of groceries dangling off your arms. You stand at the intersection watching the faded red man within the traffic light. The numbers beneath him decrease, then he is...
Feature Stories

No Empathy nor Sympathy in Foreign Cultures

April Jin -
A satirical play was performed live in Nanjing, during the month of May. Alleged to be the first cross-cultural and bilingual play ever performed on stage in the Yangtze Delta area. It consists of two main parts that overarches...
Big Reads

#MeToo; Breaking China’s Gender Glass Ceiling

Tara Tadlock -
Westerners are likely aware that pay discrepancies are just one of the many gender issues that are currently in the spotlight. In Australia, for example, women take home on average A$26,000 less than men per year. As Hollywood big-leagues...
Big Reads

Ford Nanjing Test Centre; Fast Laps & Personal Milestones

Frank Hossack -
It is both fitting and ironic that the canola oil fields surrounding Nanjing’s “Slow City” in Gaochun district are also home to a recently completed facility that is quite the very opposite of slow. For this is the new...
Big Reads

Milk Tea; Take It With a Grain of Sugar

Emily Holder -
First love leaves a mark on your heart and sense of wonder in your soul, or in this case a somewhat addictive desire to taste and experience. During my first stay in China, I fell hard for Coco’s pearl...
Feature Stories

Where the Dust Settles; Nanjing’s Vintage Curio Shop

Emily Holder -
Worn leather bags, smooth porcelain, rough coins, rusty fans; this is all some may think is sold in Shop Number 34. People have different connections to the word “vintage” when they hear it. While some may have thoughts...
Feature Stories

Digging Up the Wine; China’s Youth Challenge Vintage Beliefs

Angela Chen -
Vintage wine may be a treasure worth preserving, but should vintage traditions be preserved in the same way as well? It is no doubt that digging up a bottle of wine buried for decades, immersed beneath layers of soil,...

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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