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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.

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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...
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Politics of Improvement; China’s Discourse on Quality

Michael Anclam -
On some trains in China, a video is shown that visiting foreigners might find strange and even somewhat funny. Its message seems to be that one should not urinate on a Buddha statue, which, to most people appears to...
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Planes, Trains or Automobiles; Why Not All Three?!

Vanessa Wu -
Nanjing is one of the biggest cities in China to which every year many students come for study, and migrant workers for work. According to the statistics provided by Nanjing Census Bureau, these outsiders accounted for 21.8 percent of...
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Cat Crisis in NJU; the Trials and Tribulations of Pet’s Family

Emma Ge -
Students in Nanjing University have noticed an increasing number of cats shown on campus since this semester. These new-borns not only bring joy to cat lovers in school, but also worries to the eight student members...
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Porcelain Tower Back from the Ruins to Light up Ancient Capital

Kia Jie Xi -
Featuring one of the youngest Medieval Wonders of the World, the Lost Porcelain Tower is back in Nanjing after being destroyed for many years. Allegedly discovered by the outside world in the 17th century by renowned...
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Lesbian Reflections in Nanjing: Subvert, Energy, Life and Female!

Michael Anclam -
Late last year, the case of a student from Guangdong suing the Chinese Ministry of Education over the labelling of homosexuality as a mental illness in textbooks brought the attention of the Western Press to the issue of LGBTQIA-Rights...
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Fancy a Second Child? Er… Perhaps Not, Thanks

Vanessa Wu -
As the two-child policy, that came into force on 1st January, 2016, ends the era of one child per family and allow all couples to have two children, it has been a hot issue discussed by all Chinese, especially...
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From History and Peace Comes Victory; Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall 3

Emma Ge -
It’s 10 o’clock in the morning, 13th of December, 2015. Cars, ships and trains in Nanjing started to sound their air sirens. The sharp sounds went through the whole city while all citizens on the road...

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Frank Hossack -

Car-Bed Campers Turn Hotel Car Parks into Free Showers and Toilets

Chinese road trippers are swapping hotel rooms for the back seats of their own cars, folding them flat into...
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China’s Metro Map Grows by Almost 65km Ahead of National Day

China’s National Day holiday has arrived with three cities adding new metro links. Nanjing, Qingdao and Changchun have opened...
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Shanghai’s Railway Map Shifts East; Cross City to Hongqiao soon but a Memory

For years, Shanghai’s high-speed rail map has pulled passengers towards Hongqiao. That balance is beginning to change. New stations...

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