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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.

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Kuaidi Duanxin; Up Close and Personal

Han Dou -
They know what time you go to work and what time you get home. They never stop phoning you or sending you texts until they see your face. They wait for you all the time. Sometimes they catch you...
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Hairs to the Mohican; China’s Punk Renaissance

Frank Hossack -
Bonds neither supplied by nature nor birthright, a connection far beyond that of mere friends; that not of lovers, and not blood related. A sub group of people that help one another grow, who support one another, financially, spiritually,...
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Six Dynasties Museum Reveals Roman Empire Comparisons

Tree Chang -
Step into Nanjing’s Oriental Metropolitan Museum, and immediately take a look to your right. Note the chronologies of emperors and nations, comparing the time period to that of the Roman Empire, for there are many similarities between it and...
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Power to the People; Global Workforce Migration

Thomas Hale -
There exists a BBC Documentary, provocatively entitled “The Town Taking on China”, depicting the plight of an English manufacturing boss as he faced ever-increasing labour costs in China. Given that the cost of Chinese labour is spiralling upwards, the...
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Simply the Best! Nanjing City Wall; Oldest, Longest, Highest

Kayley Johnson -
Today we see Nanjing as an old city, inhabited by new people. The sightings of luxury cars and flashy new cell phones clash rather heavily against the backdrop of this city being the ancient capital of the mighty Middle Kingdom. On...
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The Dropa; Large Scale Extra Terrestrial Invasion of China

Frank Hossack -
The story of events in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947 is infamous; the subject of countless books, websites, periodicals, TV series et al. The story itself is also perhaps more famous for being quite possibly the biggest hoax ever...
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Expat Nightmares; Cross-Cultural Adaptation

Frank Hossack -
It's difficult to believe that many multinational corporations spend from 150,000 to as much as half a million US dollars on moving an expat family to China. It is also then quite staggering to realise that half of such...
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Biaoqing; Code Words for Young Chinese Netizens

Amy Xia -
Fu Yuanhui, an ordinary Chinese female swimmer, was catapulted to fame during the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio. However, she won great success for exaggerated facial expressions rather than her performance in the competition. Chinese Internet users combined her photos...

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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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