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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

Taxi! Nausea, Check; Body Odour, Check; Both Kidneys, Check

Triona Ryan -
E-bike season starts as spring arrives, ending winter hibernation and car reliance Pre-app taxi hailing was risky; scarce cabs, haggling fares, and urban legends Didi revolutionized transport with GPS, app bookings, and premium, sensory-friendly options Taxis improved with accountability, though occasional odd...
Feature Stories

3 Taxi Drivers, 3 Journeys; Connecting Us, Connecting Our City

Samuel Wilson -
High time we put down our phones and looked through to the front of the taxis we’re sat in. Behind the wheel, every driver has a story; a reflection of resilience, adaptation, and the pulse of a changing China....
Feature Stories

Death & Taxis How Close Have You Come to Dying?

Jonathan Alexander Smith -
Death and taxes. Taxes and death. Taxed until you die. Perhaps we don’t remind ourselves enough of Benjamin Franklin’s words; that these are the only two true things certain in life. Hearing this as a teenager, I recall wondering...
Feature Stories

China Taxis then & Now; The Hardware’s Changed but the Software?

Frank Hossack -
I should have seen it coming. In fact, I did, quite literally; it happened right before my eyes. That’s why if you ask me whether to take a taxi or the metro, my answer will lie in the latter. For...
Fiction

Back to the Future; “You Have a Fare…”

Felix Campbell -
I looked out of the window as I drove. The road wasn’t a road as such, though I liked to think of it that way. It certainly took away the monotonous feeling of empty desolation that bubbled over every...
Capital Constructs

The Building of Nanjing (34); Jiming Temple

Frank Hossack -
On the one hand, there is its status as one of Nanjing’s most popular attractions, with its supreme wooden architecture as backdrop to Buddhist observance, playing the role of nunnery to converts stationed within.  On the other, the crowds are...
Chinese Opera

Chinese Opera Demystified (2) Art on the Face

Xinlei Yuan -
Unique to Chinese opera is its 500-year-old colour cryptography; eye-catching make-up, also called the pattern, that is a feature of the art form with a history dating back to the sacrifices of ancient times. The development of make up in...
Strainer

The Canny Leaf Steeped in Tradition; Or… Tea for 12 Hour Shifts

Matthew Stedman -
Let’s say that it halves with each cycle. Each consecutive steeping produces half the flavour of the last. With each pouring, the drink more closely resembles water. Eventually, water is all that this drink will have become. The exponential...

Latest News

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...
Frank Hossack -

Gorillas! Who wants to Go See Nanjing Zoo’s Newly Arrived Primates?!

Four Western lowland gorillas, N’akouh, Nukta, N’kato and Madiba, arrived in Nanjing from the Netherlands after a 10.5-hour flight.   The gorillas,...

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