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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

Looking up; At China’s Cultural Incongruities

Samuel Wilson -
It seems almost unfashionable now to point out that China's rapid modernisation over the past few decades has led to some intriguing cultural incongruities, where ancient traditions coexist almost symbiotically with contemporary lifestyles. But it’s still one that fascinates...
Feature Stories

Theories of Humour; Incongruity Resolution

Triona Ryan -
Have you ever asked yourself, “What’s the funniest joke in the world?” 你有没有问过自己，“世界上最有趣的笑话是什么？” Well, Richard Wiseman, holder of Britain’s only Professorship in the Public Understanding of Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire has for his experiment Laugh Lab, 2002. He created the...
Feature Stories

Welcome to Incongruous, with Terry Pratchett & John Keats

Nic Gibson -
The idea of incongruity carries a bad rep. It's right there, in the word itself. “In” often implies something ineffective, inefficient or incompatible. But the picture becomes muddier when we consider inventiveness, ingenuity and incredibility. Hold that incongruity in...
Fiction

Mia; Fermenting a Future

Cindy Hua -
Once upon a time, on the outskirt of a European country, there was a moderately-sized town. Its dwellers had been living on the export of beer for centuries and there was a prestigious family who had taken a monopoly...
Coding Creativity

Kal-A.I-doscope 0; What Turns our Gears?

Rain Zhong -
As long as 27 years ago, the chess computer Deep Blue beat the then world champion and chess grand master Garry Kasparov. Post-defeat, people, including Kasparov himself, suspected the AI of cheating with the help of a human, as...
Money Talks

Money Talks (x); Bitcoin Halving; What is it, Why is it & What Happened Before?

Chris Golding -
Before explaining this recent Bitcoin event, I would first like to affirm that I do not personally endorse Bitcoin investment, it as a haven for illicit money, its “pyramid” style mechanics and the amount of energy burned by Bitcoin...
Local Music

Inside Nanjing’s Music Scene; Meeting the Movers & Shakers (Part 7)

Emma Fang -
The lead singer of the band “Bloom on the Bar” (杠上开花) regards the core of his music as being durable, psychedelic and alternative. Speaking of the band’s name, it is in fact a term used in mahjong. Readers who are...
Destinations

Stray Cats, Five Leaf Clovers & Lakes of Magnificence, in Huai’an

Frank Hossack -
Huai’an in our very own Jiangsu has as its biggest claim to fame that it was the home of Zhou Enlai, China’s first and longest-serving Premier. Rightfully revered to this day, history buffs will therein revel in a grand...

Latest News

Frank Hossack -

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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US Dept of Justice Says Nanjing Firm Hacked NASA, Senate & More

A sharp new cyber case has put a Nanjing company at the centre of a much wider political row....

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