Foreigners in the News

Friday 2 February saw the first of 2018’s international briefing conferences held by two local government bodies; the Municipal People's Congress and the Municipal People's Political Consultative Congress, at Xianlin’s Novotel hotel. The multilingual conference featured government bodies, local journalists,...

Nanjing’s annual visitor satisfaction index results are out and results are positive. Maintaining steady growth with an average score of 82.94, Nanjing and four other cities have been the first to achieve what is being called “full-dimensional satisfaction” in...

Last week, students at Nanjing Normal University received notice that students without an attendance record of 70 percent for the semester will not have their visas renewed. English as a second language institutions in Australia as well as universities...

Nanjing Normal University yesterday handed out approximately 64 government scholarships to its international students. Most students received the “normal” scholarship, which is understood to be the “visiting student” scholarship; around 15 others received a bachelor scholarship and 5 students...

While John Rabe was living through one of the greatest acts of mass violence of World War II, his employers at Siemens China Company had no clue what he was doing. The Japanese had censored communication to the outside world,...

As soon as the Japanese troops arrived, Minnie Vautrin began to hear about the rapes. Vautrin, the optimistic American missionary introduced earlier this week, had stayed behind during the 1937 Nanjing Massacre, in order manage a...

Today, likely at around 10 am, and continuing for quite some time, an urgent cry will ring out across Nanjing. The air raid sirens that warned local people of incoming Japanese bombers will once again wail, as they do...

Minnie Vautrin’s mission was to educate the girls and women of China, and she was well suited to that task. History, however, will remember her, not for the women she educated, but for the lives she saved during the...