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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

Why So Flashy?

Melissa Morgernstern -
With almost two thirds of China’s 720 million Internet users under the age of 30, competition to attract attention and understand the latest trends is a major priority. While younger users are primarily attracted to the entertainment value of...
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Targeting China

Renée Gray Beaumont -
Unless one is in advertising one never really thinks about. So the importance of advertising directly to the Chinese market, despite the very obvious reason for it, never really gets much thought. Advertising campaigns abroad that...
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California’s Chinese Communities as Cultural Mainstay

Melissa Morgernstern -
In the 1800s, Chinese immigrants in the United States were unwittingly making themselves known by looking for a better life while supporting their families at home. Yet, despite these individuals’ mission to remain closer to their origins than their...
Feature Stories

Barrios Chinos

Renée Gray Beaumont -
Passing the odd Chinese restaurant here and there while backpacking your way through urban Central America should not come as any great shock. However, when you have just trekked through the deep rainforests of Guatemala and you find yourself...
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Pop-up Police Stations

Renée Gray Beaumont -
Having recently returned to China after a year and a half stint in Mexico, I thought the sight of batons and riot police were a thing of my past; something I could leave in Mexico, something that had no...
Feature Stories

Not Just for Multinationals

Melissa Morgernstern -
Foreign celebrities in China, such as Da Shan or Mark Roswell, served as the bench mark for me to achieve fluency in Chinese. There were many ways that could happen, whether that be through the awful practice of daily...
Feature Stories

The Fairer Competition

Renée Gray Beaumont -
Honks of cars and scooters insufferably compete with poodles yapping and bikes squeaking, old men sit on a corner playing cards while their ladies hustle about selling goods. This picture has set the scene outside the...
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Cars & Credit; 15 Years on from WTO

Frank Hossack -
Look outside. Count the number of foreign badges you see on cars versus those of Chinese auto manufacturers. Don’t be embarrassed that you are not sure about some of them. Even discounting this “unknown” category, the foreign dominance of...

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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