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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

Funding Next Generation Industries; Xi’s Drive for Creativity

Renée Gray Beaumont -
They call them “New Growth” or “Next Generation” industries which have taken over from the industrial sector and is what now what helps fuel China’s economy. A new documentary by NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) China: The Great Dragon, takes a...
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The Emergence of a Chinese Hygge

Winston Zha -
Blankets, pillows, beanbags and cups of hot chocolate with extra-large marshmallows. Don’t forget the candles, which provide an almost evanescent backlight to the room with shades of apricot and amber. The distant howl of the wind is muffled by...
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Rugs, Sofas & Cocoa; the $€£¥Business of Cosy in China

Frank Hossack -
If there was ever a way to make a concrete shell of a home cosy, nothing could be easier than to hang up a curtain, throw down a rug, turn off the strip lighting, strike a match to a...
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A Hygge Revolution; the New Chinese Luxury

Renée Gray Beaumont -
Before you begin you must first get the pronunciation of this word correct, for you will go on to read it an obscene number of times throughout this article; hygge or hyoogah not hygee. hygge/ˈhʊɡ ga//ˈh(j)uːɡ:gə/ In his hit book The Little...
Big Reads

Gold! Always Believe in Your Soul; You’re Indestructible

Frank Hossack -
But once a year, the heavyweights in the Jiangsu world of arts and crafts gather for a smorgasboard of backslapping and celebration of what is, after all, an oft-ignored corner of culture. Taking place in the weeks prior to...
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Local Firm Brings Audio Visual Control Services to the World

Renée Gray Beaumont -
Nanjing-based Audio, Video and Control solutions and services company PIONE, sat down with reporters from 1865’s Jiangsu Cultural Industry Association, to chat about 21st century innovative dedication in the audio/video industry in China. With only ¥5,000 to their names, founder...
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Chess Brings International Culture to All at Jinling Library

Frank Hossack -
There are few things that unite the peoples of the world as much as the game of chess. In all its forms, whether it be Xiangqi and its Japanese, Korean or Indian counterparts, or the more widespread international chess,...
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The Hanfu Movement; Fashion Politics

Renée Gray Beaumont -
16 autumns ago, sparked the beginning of what is now known as The Hanfu Movement. It was, in fact, the autumn of 2001 and the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit where world leaders Vladimir Putin, George .W. Bush and...

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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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