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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

International Poetry Event Tastefully References Nanjing Massacre

April Jin -
My heart sunk a few fathoms when I learned that I was to cover the international poetry event organised by the Nanjing Youth League for National Youth Day. Despite my degree in English, I don’t have a poetic bone...
Feature Stories

Vintage Clothes in China; Why Bother?

Renée Gray Beaumont -
The last time I went home, vintage was all the rage. My mother used to take me Op shopping (opportunity), charity or thrift to those Brits and Americans reading this; the smells, the stories, the treasures we could find;...
Destinations

City of Darkness Now Smiling Bright as Little Thailand

Renée Gray Beaumont -
It was known as the Hong Kong Walled City, or The City of Darkness. Infamous for its 30 years of ungoverned vice and much more. Run by the Triads, the city that never saw sunlight was an entity unto...
Big Reads

Nanjing Youth Piano Open to Include Exchange Visit to Germany

Renée Gray Beaumont -
Classical music competitions, together with badminton and chess are where Chinese children seem to excel, almost prodigy like. So it comes as no surprise that the 11th International Youth Art Festival and Jiangsu Youth Piano Open Competition will kick...
Feature Stories

China Travel Trends; a Shift in Focus

Tara Tadlock -
A whopping 130 million mainland Chinese travelled abroad in 2017; almost 10 percent of the population. The general assumption that Chinese tourists are focused solely on big European group tours, and using their precious vacation time only for shopping...
Destinations

A Huangshan Road Trip (along the Highway from Beijing to Taipei)

Frank Hossack -
The word “Taiping” is virtually a cliché. As a place name, this is the local equivalent of Springfield in the USA; no less than 47 towns in China go by the moniker. Then the name pops up in Taiping...
Big Reads

More International Comedy Returns to Nanjing in May

Stacy Dahl -
International Spice, a successful comedy group in Nanjing, is proud to introduce its very first bilingual play, The Willing Take the Bait. The show will take place in Nanjing over the first two weekends in May. The Willing Take the...
Feature Stories

Famine to Feast; Chubby China’s Bulge Battle with Killer Apps

Renée Gray Beaumont -
In 1982, a mere 7 percent of China’s population was obese. By 1992, that had risen to 15 percent and in 2012, the number of people clinically obese reached 300 million, according to the Chinese Ministry of Health. Famously lean...

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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