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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

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...
Feature Stories

Eye of the Tiger; The Business of Myopic China

Frank Hossack -
Upon coming to China, it is a common thought for the new arrival that a lot of Chinese people apparently need to wear glasses, more so than in other countries. It would also be normal to wonder whether this...
Big Reads

Real Lives; An Ordinary Busker in Nanjing

Allison Chan -
It was a typical Friday evening outside the Zhujianglu station, lights lit and road busy. People coming and going, a young man with light denim jacket and Dr. Marten boots arranged his equipment; a guitar, a loudspeaker and a...
Big Reads

Avoiding the May Day Holiday Crowds

Jasmin Chen -
With the May Day around the corner, a great number of people are planning to take a trip. Yet so many crowd the hot spots that you can not even move one step. You spend the...
Feature Stories

Blue as the New White (that was the OLD Black)

Frank Hossack -
The authorities might hate to admit it, but there are many ways in which China is very similar to the USA. Take the size of the country, for example. Or its geography. Or the location of its major centres...
Feature Stories

Face Maintenance

Renée Gray Beaumont -
If you are reading this, you either live in China, are passing through or have an active interest in reading about life here. So it is undoubtable that you have at some point at least brushed on the notion...
Feature Stories

Hyphenated Insult; the Struggle of Chinese Americans

Melissa Morgernstern -
Those who are fans of Miss Universe may be familiar with a certain comedian/host named Steve Harvey who famously, and incorrectly, blurted out Miss Colombia as winner of the 2016 competition. Quickly afterwards he corrected himself, which was followed...
Big Reads

Green Dumpling; Tomb Sweeping Festival’s Bite of Spring

Eleanor Xu -
Qingming, 4th April this year, also known as Tomb Sweeping Day or Ancestors' Day, is usually a sign of the early spring. At this time of year, the sweet taste of spring becomes a must-have for local people. ...

Latest News

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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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