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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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English Names = More or Less Economic Opportunity for Chinese Youth?

Geoff Gibson -
Picture the following scenario: A girl gets sent to the best school in Shanghai; then to the best university there; then does a master’s in Melbourne, Australia. After graduation in Australia, she sends out forty resumes to companies there...
Feature Stories

Truly Tricked Out Of Trust; Bamboozling the Chinese Consumer

Renée Gray Beaumont -
We at The Nanjinger often spend a vast amount of time contemplating, discussing and analising Chinese sociology. Laid out on the table this month is societal reflection and what that means for China. So often do...
Feature Stories

Fiat Justitia Ruat Cælum; Forgiveness & Vengeance in Modern China

Angela Chen -
I have wondered on many occasions if all Chinese people are born with a special type of DNA that contains a passive-aggressive brand of retaliation. To simply put it, we are a nation innately talented at holding grudges. ...
Feature Stories

Avocado Affluence; Nutritional Lauraceae’s Rapid Growth in China

Renée Gray Beaumont -
Just as avocados helped lift the social status of Britain’s newly affluent middle class of the 1970s, it is now beginning to rain down prestige on China’s new middle class in the same way. It acts...
Big Reads

Soar into the Skies with Uni Students’ Stunt Kites

Vicky Liu -
Stunt kite-flying is a fashionable sport, and quite a physical one, requiring much strength and energy. It was for these reasons that Li Jianzhong, a Nanjing university staffer, opened up the Kite Association of Nanjing University to students in...
Big Reads

Cartoon Character Colours City Calling Card

Sherry Lin -
A little boy with sausage lips, small eyes and a school uniform is the unofficial city face of Nanjing. His name is “A Mei” (阿槑) and he is the main character in a video called “Memories of South Nanjing”....
Feature Stories

China’s Metabolism; Taking it Slow Amid Frenetic Change

Senaash Devasenathipathy -
Inside of each and every one of us, organisms, organ systems, organs, cells, and biomolecules carry out the chemical or physical functions that exist in a living system. Our bodies can be understood in many different...
Feature Stories

Untangling the Virgin Hair Harvest

Renée Gray Beaumont -
Modernity is the driving force behind women who continue a trend that has swept the globe for more than three decades for hair extensions. This multi billion dollar industry is layered thick at the expense of the poor by...

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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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