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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.

Big Reads

Summer Hits; Top 7 Running Spots for Joggers

Kristen Wang -
For the joggers amongst us, it becomes a tricky task to find a suitable running route in a congested urban environment, especially when also factoring in traffic noise and pollution, as well as that rocketing mercury in the thermometer. Well-known...
Feature Stories

Between the Tracks; Ancient Pukou

Edmund Culham -
6am:a corner of Pukou, chickens scratch the ground between the railway tracks; sunrise. A prevalence of old faces, those who have risen with the dawn. Some exercise with slow movements by the side of the road, others still decked out...
Destinations

Wugongshan; Get off of My Cloud!

Kristi Allen -
It was a grey and drizzly day when we arrived at Wugongshan, so we couldn’t really understand why everyone was telling us we were lucky to see the sacred mountain that day. Soon enough though, we would be standing atop...
Strainer

Long Time, Long Jing No See

Matthew Stedman -
there were some TV commercials for Kellogg’s Corn Flakes. Various respectable-looking adults found themselves restricted for choice at breakfast time, while camping or abroad, perhaps... Anyway, they were forced by circumstance to eat Corn Flakes. “I’d forgotten how good they...
Big Reads

China’s 4 Types of Entertainment TV; 3 are Fake

Kristen Wang -
Entertainment television shows in China have experienced profound change over the last 30 years. From the beginning of the 1990s to the present, China's entertainment shows have experienced different stages of development, such as Hong Kong-Taiwan influenced, Europe influenced...
Feature Stories

My Smelly Memories; Nanjing Museum Exhibits the Persuasive Sense

Kristen Wang -
The smell of an apple pie down on the street wafts through the air. Suddenly, the memory that your mum cooked in the kitchen after your school finished surges into your head. Or maybe it’s a whiff of a...
Strainer

Happy Lemon; Drink it Like a Russian

Matthew Stedman -
Chinese food was the ultimate treat for me. You may sneer at those British-Cantonese restaurant dishes which so excited me: spare ribs, crispy noodles, crispy beef with carrots, etc. I am unrepentant. In our family, we each ordered one...
Feature Stories

Music for the Masses; A Sense of Magnificence

Frank Hossack -
2019 is a big year for anniversaries in China, not least the birth of the Chinese nation itself 70 years ago. Completely unpublicised, however, is the fact that it is also 30 years since the New York Times ran...

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...

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