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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.

Local Music

Inside Nanjing’s Music Scene; Meeting the Movers & Shakers (Part 9)

Emma Fang -
Formed in the year 2020, the band “Bye-Bye-Club” (分手俱乐部) has its unique story, composed of four members; leader singer Jin Cheng, guitarist Sun Sitong, bassist Xiantong (stage name) and drummer Tianhao. As most of the bands interviewed for this column,...
Feature Stories

Persuasion; Where Social Media Meets Ancient Greece

Emma Schneider -
Significant throughout time, announcements  have long served as a method of persuasion, an integral part of human society, inherently present in our minds from the moment we began putting together coherent thoughts and desires.  Today’s social media landscape is populated...
Feature Stories

Utterly Loathsome Announcements

Frank Hossack -
Q: What’s the first thing people do after stepping onto the escalator that leads to Suguo and upon hearing the instruction not to look at their phone while on the device? A: Look at their phone. My teenage daughter has a...
Feature Stories

An Ambivert’s Guide to Announcements

Nic Gibson -
Ambivert: someone with qualities of introversion and extroversion, finding comfort and energy in both social interaction and solitude depending on the situation. Growing up with the internet, as my generation did, I should be comfortable with knowing when to make...
Feature Stories

Phones, Phears & Phriends: Announcements through the Ages

Triona Ryan -
Sharing is caring, as the old adage goes. Communication is at the heart of what it means to be human. Sharing stories, experiences, and information brings us closer together, allows us to progress as a species and keeps us...
Fiction

Plotting & Revenge; English Teachers vs. AI

Bobbie Ali -
Despite all the talk of AI replacing human beings in the job market, it had seemed like a concern for a distant time. Perhaps this was the main reason the principal’s announcement still had her reeling.  “As of this semester,...
Strainer

Some Sun, Few Tories; Saying Goodbye to a Teenager

Matthew Stedman -
Suntory’s bottled “Black Oolong Tea” is an institution, as well loved in China as in its native Japan. And here it is, refrigerated and available for purchase, in the UK. Always the stingy skinflint, I resent paying three times the...
Coding Creativity

Kal-A.I-doscope 1; ChatGPT Meets Ted Hughes

Rain Zhong -
This month, we dive into the poetic pool of mid-19th century English poet Ted Hughes and reinstate a nightmare of many IGCSE students (including me) worldwide. An analysis of one of Hughes works in particular serves well to set...

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