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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.

Big Reads

Using Nanjing’s Five Varieties of Private Shared Bikes

Annie Zhao -
There are many new bikes to share. Perhaps you’ve seen them on the streets of Nanjing; bicycles of eye-catching silver, bright green, yellow or white. They are called private shared bicycles, a new product of the...
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...
Feature Stories

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...
Feature Stories

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...
Feature Stories

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...
Feature Stories

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...
Feature Stories

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...
Feature Stories

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....

Latest News

Frank Hossack -

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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