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China’s Unwritten Rules & The Population Time Bomb

News of China’s rapidly-aging population will not have escaped The Nanjinger’s alert readers. That’s right folks, people aren’t making enough babies. The problem of course, is the herd effect. And given China is an aspirational society driven by the concept...

All Hope Abandon Ye Who Enter Here; Talk Like a True Nanjinger

Listen closely to the vocabulary employed in everyday use by many a Nanjinger and you would be forgiven for imagining a preoccupation with Dante’s vision of the afterlife. I’m starving to death! I’m dying of thirst! I’m freezing to death! These...

How Nanjing Ruins Every Other City

I grew up in a small town in Burgundy, France, called Nevers. It was the kind of unstimulating place that every youth would leave in a rush as soon as they graduated high school, which was pretty much what...

20 Days’ Out Ideas for Families Spending the Holidays in Nanjing

Much herein cannot be found in the guidebooks; some suggestions are plain-pretty material for WeChat Moments, while many others take advantage of Nanjing being steeped in history to offer educational opportunity for both the young and history buffs. Tunnel of...

Opening a Can of Bats; Face-Masked Fusions of Fashion

“We’ll burn that bridge when we get to it” is one of my father’s favourite sayings. “Until the cows freeze over” is another. A blended idiom or cliché is called a malaphor. The combination of two hitherto unrelated concepts makes...

Maintaining Personal Hygiene in Ancient China

With the rapid advancement of the times, people have begun to pay more and more attention to their personal image, and have also attached great importance to personal hygiene. Things such as toothpaste and hand sanitiser have become daily...

Lies, Damned Lies; Fake Character is China’s Latest Big Business

Many of our alert readers will know of the expression, “Me and my yacht”. They will also be aware of the limits to the actual truth contained therein. Turns out that in China, this is a concept that has...

Nanjing’s Former Embassies; Reliving Republican Glamour

It is so hard to imagine China’s flapping days of luxury; Nanjing’s pockets of glitz and glamour, before it all took a turn for the worse, only to revel in its renaissance a century later. All too often, modern...
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Nanjinger’s Illustrated Book Picked up by Top 5 Intl. Publisher

There cannot be many books, English books, illustrated by a Nanjinger and a young one at that, which have...

After the Fire; Nanjing & Elsewhere Clamp Down on E-bike Charging that Can Kill

Tragedies are not normally inevitable. They come out of nowhere. But when it comes to that of the deadly...

Nanjing North Railway Station is Finally a Go; 2027 Here We Come!

There’s been a lot of speculation. And stuff which wasn’t true. But now we know for sure. Nanjing North...
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