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Sustainability on the Ground; What do Nanjingers Think?

With every successful movement that has come to fruition to date; the Women’s Liberation Movement, voting rights, LGBTQ movement, Black Lives Matter movement, and the Me Too movement to name a select few; so public opinion on the matters...

What of Marriage Honesty in China’s New Civil Code?


Marriage is the mainstay of the modern contemporary family. In the relationship between husband and wife, that which we usually call “honesty” is actually the principle of good faith found within the Chinese Civil Code.  We know that in the...

China’s Rivers Offered Increased Legal Protection

The basin of the Yellow River (Huang He), the “mother river of China”, was the birthplace of ancient Chinese civilisation and the centre of Chinese politics, economy and culture for over 3,000 years.  Unfortunately, the river is also known as...

Does “Zero Waste” in Reality Really Mean “Zero Waste”?

For this month’s Sense & Sustainability, The Nanjinger spoke with Nanjing-based, Rachel Niesen, advocate and long-time dedicator to the zero-waste movement who also runs the website, EcoLaowai, dedicated to conscious living in China. Top of the agenda; common misconceptions...

Mythical Beasts that Simply Scream Nanjing

It’s on your metro pass and perhaps your student card too. It greets you at both train stations and is the hallmark of the Nanjing cigarette brand. But what is that mystical four-legged creature and how did it come...

Mao Yan; Out of the Shadows

Thomas came to Nanjing, as did I, and indeed many others, to learn Chinese, an exchange student from Luxembourg. Arriving in the late 90s, who knows what he expected, but perhaps last on his list was becoming the muse...

The Big “C” Welcomes the Big “P”


As most of the west continues to work on controlling The Bic C, China has moved past that turmoil and onto implementing local and national preventative measures to ensure that heathy living and normalcy continues for Chinese residents. One...

The Perks of Having Two Birthdays

Most of us grew up knowing our own single birth date. After all, you can only be born once and that’s the only date of birth you can have, or is it? Unlike the western system, which follows the solar...

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Iranians in China become more Visible than Countable

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China has 300 million smokers, nearly a third of the world's total. The imbalance between the sexes is stark:...

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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