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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.

Money Talks

Money Talks (xiv); Adviser vs. DIY Investing; Consider a Self Test

Chris Golding -
There's no foolproof way to measure your success as a self-appointed financial planner. You may never know how your portfolio would perform if you paid a professional to manage it versus doing it yourself. But you can assess to...
Big Reads

Ming Dynasty Baijiu Tech Breaks Records in Fertile Lands

Frank Hossack -
The sprawling plains of northern Jiangsu belie that which lurks under foot; millions of years of geological change at work resulting in a superlative diamond in the world of liquor production. It’s one recently come to be officially recognised...
Big Reads

Wuxi; A Metropolis of Music Materialises in Birthplace of Legend

Frank Hossack -
Known for boasting the beginnings of China’s Wu culture brought about Wuxi people’s reputation for being smart, making them an employer’s dream. That indeed spurred the region’s industrial development, but it also gave rise to their having a diverse...
Feature Stories

The Alternative (& Superior) Nanjing QR Code Treasure Hunt

Samuel Wilson -
Your usual tourist traps would litter any typical QR Code Treasure Hunt route for Nanjing; Purple Mountain, Fuzimiao, the City Wall and some sort of stopover in Xinjiekou at some point.  你通常的旅游陷阱会散布南京任何典型的二维码寻宝路线；紫山、福子庙、城墙和在新街口的某种中途停留。 Been there, done that.  去过那里，做过那个。 Therefore, I attempt an alternative QR...
Feature Stories

Nudge, Nudge, Wink, Wink; China’s QR Code Debacle

Frank Hossack -
I think I’m becoming allergic to QR codes… 我觉得我对二维码过敏了...... I had a dream. It was full of vertical black and white lines. Some of the lines then morphed into an odd haze of dots; some square, some circular. Some even, it...
Feature Stories

Paying May be Painless; But the Scroll Must Go on

Triona Ryan -
Do you remember the good-old days, when you had to walk into a restaurant, sit down and wait for a real-life human being to come over and take your order?  你还记得那些美好的旧日子吗，那时你必须走进一家餐厅，坐下来等待真人过来接受你的订单？ The anguish of making eye contact, the ignominy of waving...
Fiction

Scan 4 Love

Morgan Gallup Zhu -
My mom had a QR code on her table at Ikea. You wouldn’t have noticed it unless you knew what to look for. It peeked discreetly from under her plate, like a small, secret weapon. Another elderly parent, balancing...
Big Reads

China’s Banana Eating Skydiver Somersaults Her Way to 2,500 Jumps

Frank Hossack -
Economic development and high-speed trains may be how the world ponders China’s progress, but little can say better how far the country has really come over the past 25 years than a young woman leaping into a crystal-blue sky...

Latest News

Frank Hossack -

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...
Frank Hossack -

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:...
Frank Hossack -

US Dept of Justice Says Nanjing Firm Hacked NASA, Senate & More

A sharp new cyber case has put a Nanjing company at the centre of a much wider political row....

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