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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.

Capital Constructs

The Building of Nanjing (31); Nanjing Zhongshan Men (Gate)

Frank Hossack -
Few others, if any, have been given a funeral procession such as this. Not only was it long, from Zhongshan Wharf in Nanjing’s northwest all the way to Purple Mountain, it was wide. Roads along the entire route were ripped...
Feature Stories

The Alternative (& Superior) Nanjing QR Code Treasure Hunt

Samuel Wilson -
Your usual tourist traps would litter any typical QR Code Treasure Hunt route for Nanjing; Purple Mountain, Fuzimiao, the City Wall and some sort of stopover in Xinjiekou at some point.  Been there, done that.  Therefore, I attempt an alternative QR...
Feature Stories

Nudge, Nudge, Wink, Wink; China’s QR Code Debacle

Frank Hossack -
I think I’m becoming allergic to QR codes… I had a dream. It was full of vertical black and white lines. Some of the lines then morphed into an odd haze of dots; some square, some circular. Some even, it...
Feature Stories

Paying May be Painless; But the Scroll Must Go on

Triona Ryan -
Do you remember the good-old days, when you had to walk into a restaurant, sit down and wait for a real-life human being to come over and take your order?  The anguish of making eye contact, the ignominy of waving...
Fiction

Scan 4 Love

Morgan Gallup Zhu -
My mom had a QR code on her table at Ikea. You wouldn’t have noticed it unless you knew what to look for. It peeked discreetly from under her plate, like a small, secret weapon. Another elderly parent, balancing...
Big Reads

China’s Banana Eating Skydiver Somersaults Her Way to 2,500 Jumps

Frank Hossack -
Economic development and high-speed trains may be how the world ponders China’s progress, but little can say better how far the country has really come over the past 25 years than a young woman leaping into a crystal-blue sky...
Destinations

The Magical Properties of the Indestructible Golden Ginkgo

Frank Hossack -
Ginkgo trees are old. Like really old. Older even than the city of Xuzhou in northwest Jiangsu. That it be the oldest in the Province, dating back 6,000 years, makes it a fitting home therefore for forests of ginkgo. Now...
Money Talks

Money Talks (xiii); Forget Cats’ Lives; 9 Ways to Sabotage Your Financial Freedom

Chris Golding -
According to a US Federal Reserve survey, about a third of American citizens who own their own homes do not have a retirement account for when they can’t or won’t be employed any longer. Nor do about two fifths...

Latest News

Frank Hossack -

Tasty Solutions on the Menu at Shanghai Climate Week

Shanghai Climate Week coincides with Earth Day and highlights China's dual-carbon commitments. And while its object as also a...
Frank Hossack -

Why is the Shanghai Government Sniffing around Our Back Yard? 

Shanghai-Nanjing Innovation Belt emerges, with Putuo District driving cross-regional collaboration to boost economic growth for 50+ million people Putuo officials...
Frank Hossack -

Nanjing’s International Flights; All Change for Summer Schedule

April is rolling around, and with it comes a new schedule for flights in and out of Nanjing Lukou...

News Snippets from Jiangsu