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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

Branding Collectivism

Frank Hossack -
China’s insatiable appetite for luxury items and brand names feeds the very nature of collectivism. For the phenomenon itself to survive however, it shall need to weather a more challenging storm; that of the growing generations of younger people...
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Confused Confucius

Melissa Morgernstern -
The Rise of Individualism in a Collective Society For those of us who have yet to venture east to China, Chinese society brings about traditional collective images such as the filial child or the sacrificing parents....
Big Reads

Surrogacy U Turn Ignites Ethical Debate

Emma Ge -
At the end of last year, the Chinese government last month enacted a new strict prohibition of buying or selling sperms or eggs and a ban on any form of surrogacy. According to the data by...
Big Reads

Mobile Phone Nightmares; Where Did My Data Go?

Stephanie Dong -
On the first day of every month, do you check how much data service you can use in the next thirty days? Do you always exhaust your data quota by the end of month? Have you ever wondered where...
Feature Stories

Oh No! It’s another Delivery on a Bad Hair Day!

Han Dou -
They know what time you go to work and what time you get home. They never stop phoning you or sending you texts until they see your face. They wait for you all the time. Sometimes they catch you...
Feature Stories

Didi Vs. Uber

Shahnaz Mouhamou -
It was 10:30 pm on a Friday night. I’d been walking around for 30 minutes in the streets of Shanghai’s Former French Concession. My cheerful and optimistic demeanor from a delightful night out with the girls was quickly overshadowed...
Feature Stories

Roll Up Roll Up! Come Get Your Parcels!

Xintong Wang -
It was seven o’clock in the evening, good and dark. There should be nobody in the self-pickup station in Nanjing University. However, the light was all on and the staff were busy with their packages. “Since...
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Quotations from Skinny Zhu

Han Dou -
For many, Taobao has become their best friend. After all, the process cannot be any easier. On a dreary evening, you scroll through the website in your pajamas, tap a couple of buttons and voila; everything you need will...

Latest News

Frank Hossack -

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...
Frank Hossack -

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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