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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 2)

Emma Fang -
Walking into the studio, “The Eight Dimensions”, a huge stage greets my eyes. With the magnesium lights shining bright upon the stage, a melodious sound began to echo in my ears. A tall girl with long hair was standing...
Strainer

Teapot D’Azur; Feeling Zen with Cannes Here, Monaco there

Matthew Stedman -
Let me state that The Nanjinger has not paid for me to be here. Nanjing is far too far away and the expenses for such a glamorous patch could easily spiral beyond control. I write from Juan Les Pines...
Big Reads

Distilling the Conversation; Drunken Apes Drive Tourism of Today

Frank Hossack -
An enormous, faux-ceramic-baijiu urn greets visitors to the Yanghe Winery Culture Tourist Area in Suqian, Jiangsu Province.  It’s a metaphor for the size of that which lies dormant inside the urn. And yes, it’s full (of you know what). The...
Feature Stories

What’s the Colour of Time? Of Direction? Of Space? Of Numbers?

Nic Gibson -
Perceptions: cultural, historical, and biological. Our perceptions colour our experiences, influence our judgments and shape our interactions with other people. An oft-quoted anecdote runs that in 1972, Chinese premier Zhou Enlai was asked about the impact of the French Revolution....
Feature Stories

Changing the Modus Operandi of Personal Urban Transport

Lillian Paetzold Chen -
What's your idea of getting to work each morning? Getting on that half-broken moped you've had for years and just hoping it makes it? Or maybe you're one of the lucky ones who gets to sit in traffic for...
Feature Stories

Never Ever Have I Ever

Triona Ryan -
I am moving house again. Unwillingly, for the first time ever. My landlord wants to fix all the leaks and cracks and damp and then live there, so we must once again decamp. For the first time ever, I...
Feature Stories

Chinese People will Never EVER do that; Yeah, Right!

Frank Hossack -
New mothers in today’s China are very likely to be seen pushing a pram while looking at their iPhone. Nothing strange about that, you might think. But let’s back up a little. When I moved from Shanghai to Nanjing in 2003,...
Fiction

True Evol’s Kiss; Prince Charming Awaits outside the Cave…

Felix Campbell -
Makayla sat on her broomstick hovering over the dark twisted trees below, wondering how they were still standing all these years later. She once again, thought back to that time, lazily trying to recall if there were any other...

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...
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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