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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

But I have to be Beautiful (& don’t Care what You Look Like)

Frank Hossack -
Showing off one’s self in the best possible light is a natural human attribute. But, just as with everything else, in China that concept is taken to new levels. Political correctness be damned; body pride is the way to...
Strainer

Reaching Out to All You Coffee Lovers

Matthew Stedman -
So you drink coffee? Fair enough. You’re not alone. It’s an easy mistake to make. There’s plenty of time to remedy your error. If you’re reading this here in China, you have ample opportunity to switch yourself on to a...
Building the Best; Architectural Highlights of Nanjing

The Building of Nanjing (25); Zhonghua Men

Frank Hossack -
Many will be familiar with the impressive data set accompanying Nanjing’s Zhonghua Men. The biggest citadel on Earth still in existence, capable of housing a garrison of 3,000 soldiers and likely the most complex structure of its time. But that...
Money Talks

Money Talks (viii); Managing Investments in Challenging Times

Chris Golding -
Holding your nerve can pay dividends in the long term. When the world feels uncertain, it’s easy for most investors to get anxious. Market highs, the challenges we face, conflicts in the Middle East and eastern Europe, economic headwinds...
Destinations

Pears & Poetry! Springtime in Best Kept Secret Water Town; Lili

Frank Hossack -
Way down deep in Suzhou’s south lies the crown jewel in all of China’s Jiangnan water towns. Affording deep contemplation, millennium-old authenticity, untroubled tranquility among the blossoms and credentials in poetry beyond compare; all are about to come knocking...
Feature Stories

My Big Fat Kuaidi Wedding

Samuel Wilson -
Chinese weddings are no meagre affair. Copious amounts of food, baijiu, the colour red filled the wedding venue; lest we forget the guests themselves. With this “姐” (“jie”; sister) and that “哥” (“ge”; brother) all staring at the grinning...
Feature Stories

Where Did All Our Time Go? A Kuaidi Kween Komments

Triona Ryan -
A kettle sits in my front garden, inside a wedge of polystyrene in a cardboard box. I know for sure it is a kettle, because I justbought a new one. On Taobao.  The piercing whistle of the old one has...
Fiction

The Velda Delivery; House 9, 1st Av., Unity St., Torrent City

Rhoda -
Stephanie read the address out loud, hoping that this time, it would ring a bell. Sadly, just like every time before now, she came up blank. In her almost fifteen years of being a delivery person, she had never...

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...

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