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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

Fiat Justitia Ruat Cælum; Forgiveness & Vengeance in Modern China

Angela Chen -
I have wondered on many occasions if all Chinese people are born with a special type of DNA that contains a passive-aggressive brand of retaliation. To simply put it, we are a nation innately talented at holding grudges. ...
Feature Stories

Avocado Affluence; Nutritional Lauraceae’s Rapid Growth in China

Renée Gray Beaumont -
Just as avocados helped lift the social status of Britain’s newly affluent middle class of the 1970s, it is now beginning to rain down prestige on China’s new middle class in the same way. It acts...
Big Reads

Soar into the Skies with Uni Students’ Stunt Kites

Vicky Liu -
Stunt kite-flying is a fashionable sport, and quite a physical one, requiring much strength and energy. It was for these reasons that Li Jianzhong, a Nanjing university staffer, opened up the Kite Association of Nanjing University to students in...
Big Reads

Cartoon Character Colours City Calling Card

Sherry Lin -
A little boy with sausage lips, small eyes and a school uniform is the unofficial city face of Nanjing. His name is “A Mei” (阿槑) and he is the main character in a video called “Memories of South Nanjing”....
Feature Stories

China’s Metabolism; Taking it Slow Amid Frenetic Change

Senaash Devasenathipathy -
Inside of each and every one of us, organisms, organ systems, organs, cells, and biomolecules carry out the chemical or physical functions that exist in a living system. Our bodies can be understood in many different...
Feature Stories

Untangling the Virgin Hair Harvest

Renée Gray Beaumont -
Modernity is the driving force behind women who continue a trend that has swept the globe for more than three decades for hair extensions. This multi billion dollar industry is layered thick at the expense of the poor by...
Feature Stories

Eye of the Tiger; The Business of Myopic China

Frank Hossack -
Upon coming to China, it is a common thought for the new arrival that a lot of Chinese people apparently need to wear glasses, more so than in other countries. It would also be normal to wonder whether this...
Big Reads

Real Lives; An Ordinary Busker in Nanjing

Allison Chan -
It was a typical Friday evening outside the Zhujianglu station, lights lit and road busy. People coming and going, a young man with light denim jacket and Dr. Marten boots arranged his equipment; a guitar, a loudspeaker and a...

Latest News

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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...
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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...

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