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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.

Strainer

Swallowing is Just the Beginning; Rain, Flower, Cloud!

Matthew Stedman -
Now, this may seem a little vulgar. But I beg your patience. I’m here to talk up the pleasures of burping. As the father of a new baby, it’s a proud moment when I bash a burp out of...
Feature Stories

Practical Tips to Fight Six Internet Safety Traps in China

Shawn Li -
In today's society, it can be said that cybersecurity is closely related to every citizen. Nowadays, a mobile phone can make the road congestion situation clear at a glance, and you can buy pretty much everything without leaving your...
Big Reads

From Kerosene to LED; 70 Years of Lighting up Nanjing’s Streets

Shawn Li -
Alert readers will have picked up on the fact that China today celebrates her 70th birthday. Authorities up and down the land, in every field of public service, have been clambering over each other to be seen to be...
Feature Stories

Smart Gyms Point the Way for Future Fitness

Shawn Li -
Fitness is in, as you may have noticed. But its future is smart. Just as well, since there is quite a lot of Chinese people, and they increasingly have very little time for fitness in their busy lives. This 8...
Strainer

Sugar-Free Bottled Tea; China’s Wu Tang Clan

Matthew Stedman -
Now the baking days are behind us, we can say it’s been another hot summer, with one tiny difference;  Things have heated up in the cold tea sector. For a long time, there was only Suntory (三得利) with its iconic pair...
Feature Stories

4,000 Years of Fitness; Workouts Invented by the Chinese

Josefa Meng -
We see our grandmothers go square dancing; young people retreat to gyms in every corner of the city. Is fitness in China therefore an import?  Rather not. Long ago, in the absence of gyms, people needed to improvise in order to...
Feature Stories

“Ghost Stations”; Nanjing’s Forgotten High-Speed Rail Stops

Frank Hossack -
China’s high-speed railway network, as we all know, is nothing short of a marvel. Yet, it is also not without criticisms. Among them, so-called “ghost stations” that, for one reason or another, see more trains pass through than stop...
Destinations

Enchanting Kazakhstan; Steroids on the Steppe

Snooze Northcott -
In a gem of a country on China’s far western border and off the radar for many, we felt like intrepid travellers as we set off for a week to visit Almaty, Kazakhstan, conveniently located on the Silk Road....

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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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