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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

Nanjing’s Foreign Fashion Insiders on the Impact of Covid-19

Donyell Marshall - 10th May 2020

“I’m really into purple velvet right now”, Rosie Colvin said. “Think Willy Wonka, or maybe Prince.That’s my vibe.” The UK fashion designer was discussing her dream ensemble for when she’d finally be released from quarantine. Currently waiting for permission to...

Best of The Nanjinger

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

Triona Ryan - 10th May 2020

“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...

Feature Stories

Are All Things Nanjing Fashionable? Only if they’re Online!

Wang Yutong - 10th May 2020

It’s really difficult not to think of fashion when you think of a Nanjinger. Everything we know is coloured by something or other; in the case of Nanjing, the fashion that stands out is the Nanjing dialect, “Nankinese”, because...

Great Nanjingers

Dreamer of Damsals in Red; Cao Xueqin

Frank Hossack - 10th May 2020

Cao Xueqin (曹雪芹) was a free-spirited individual with a fondness for the bottle. But he was also a visionary with a keen eye for the human condition, largely the result of his family’s fall from grace in the eyes...

Strainer

Drinking the Yellow Peril

Matthew Stedman - 10th May 2020

It’s not yellow. Let’s get that out of the way first. The leaves are as green as Act One in Sonic. And the drink; well, green tea makes a pale yellow drink anyway, so there’s no room for differentiation there. It...

Big Reads

Lonely Islands; the Outbreak Seen from Within a “Bubble”

Roxana Wang - 22nd April 2020

“My parents, who are doctors, say that the ‘pneumonia’ is more serious than we think”, said my friend, frowning. It was late January, and she in her face mask looked overcautious beside the fashionable ladies in Xinjiekou, who strode...

Big Reads

Hope Will Come; The Human Spirit Endures (an Anecdotal Pandemic)

Michael Santiago - 21st April 2020

24 hours. This was when a situation, without notice, became dire, and life was uprooted in a sliver of time. Reminiscent of a scene from bygone pandemic films; a city of nearly 8 million inhabitants went into full quarantine. Face...

Great Nanjingers

The 5th Century’s Human Computer; Zu Chongzhi

Frank Hossack - 10th April 2020

Zu Chongzhi (祖冲之) had a thing for circles. In fact, he knew his way around an ellipse better possibly than gravity itself. Such was the extent of Zu’s influence, this Great Nanjinger had parks, roads and schools named after him....

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