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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

The Bowed Head Clan

Senaash Devasenathipathy -
Raise your hand if you answered “yes” to three or more of the questions on the left. Congratulations. According to the fount of all knowledge that is The People’s Daily, you are now officially a part of the “bowed...
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Shopoholics of China

Renée Gray Beaumont -
They sat around a private table at a popular coffee haunt in 1912. Lattes and mochas in hand, they laughed and joked as they caught up; it had been a while. Lin sat at the end, her long black...
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L.M.A; Losing My Addiction

Frank Hossack -
I suspect that it is possible to be addicted to a location, as opposed to a substance or an activity. Top of the list would likely be the bedroom, followed by the bathroom. Yet, that would be to deny...
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Big Green Business

Renée Gray Beaumont -
Another social shift is bubbling in Nanjing; one mainly due to the increase in wealth and standards of living. The middle to upper classes are fed up and unwilling to buy many domestic products destined for the mouth.They should...
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The Cricket’s Song

Angela Chen -
Set in the Forbidden City during a time where the only certainty is change, this story tells of the one thing uniting the past and present for one of the most important characters in Chinese history as he concludes...
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Forward; to the Future

Frank Hossack -
As time travellers arrive in Nanjing, they might expect to find a Metro service ready to whisk them off to the suburbs, or possibly to destinations beyond the stars. Pods float above an elegant bridge over Xuanwu Lake waiting...
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The Englishman’s Wife

Renée Gray Beaumont -
“Just as a formality Mrs. Lin, we will need something on record that can prove your family history. Is there anything we can use?” asked the British woman sat behind the desk at the Visa Application Centre in Shanghai....
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The Knowledge

Renée Gray Beaumont -
“Shifu?” I ask, “shifu? Ting bu jian ma?” With no response, I peer over the front seat. “Ke’chink”, goes the lighter, blazing up another Nanjing Gold as he simultaneously gags up impressive fat greeny phlegm and spits it out...

Latest News

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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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