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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

Out Damned Yellow! Out I Say; The Key is Acceptance, Not Cure

Ryan Thorpe -
Mariel had been told that she’d been born white as wedding-cake frosting, but she wasn’t white anymore.  She looked down at her hands and saw the yellow collected on her fingers like she had been playing with corn flour. It...
Building the Best; Architectural Highlights of Nanjing

The Building of Nanjing (15); Purple Mountain Cableway

Frank Hossack -
It used to be a somewhat rickety affair. And then in recent years it got a facelift. Well, more of a complete reconstruction job, really. For many though, it’s just not the same as it was back in the...
Nankinish Delights

Ma Xiangxing; A Century+ Long Journey of Culinary Innovation

Cao Mingyu -
When it comes to a halal diet, people will always think of a series of delicacies made from beef and mutton. However, there is such a restaurant that uses the most common fish, duck, prawns and eggs in Nanjing...
Big Reads

From Rags to Riches; The ¥10 Billion Garlic Production Base in Jiangsu

Frank Hossack -
Large Scale, Industrial Farming is Finally Catching on in China. For those who Played their Cards Right, it’s become a Veritable Garlic Mine. A county-level city under the administration of Xuzhou City in Jiangsu’s far northwest with a population of...
Strainer

More Chinese than China? Bamboozled by The Greenest Possible Cup

Matthew Stedman -
You don’t need to come to Asia to encounter bamboo; it’s there on the steering wheel of the E-Type Jaguar, on umbrella handles, there on that corporal punishment device once kept behind teachers’ desks. Even edible bamboo was a concept...
Feature Stories

We Want You (to Come over Here); Body Language Communication

Emma Schneider -
Have you ever realised the significance of the role that gestures have and continue to play throughout our lives?  The word by definition means, “a movement of part of the body, to express an idea or meaning”. As infants, when...
Feature Stories

Wordless Teaching Conversations; Gesturing in Vain to K-1C

Hattie -
Robin had read a while ago that most of a conversation is conveyed without words.  She’d dismissed it at the time, citing her own drastic inability to guess at people’s words and meanings without being explicitly told, and when the...
Nankinish Delights

Ultimate where to take Your out of Town Guests (w/ Salted Duck)

Zeyuan Wu -
Accommodation and itineraries are arranged. Now the only question for you is, where to take them for dinner? At one point you considered the option of dining at home, but you doubt if they like the idea of coming...

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