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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

Internationalising Nanjing; Helping Hands for the Foreigners

Frank Hossack -
With no effort being spared this year at raising the international level of Nanjing, new non-profit organisations are popping up all over the city, in all divisions of society; organisations such as the Nanjing Foreign Affairs Service Association (NFASA). There...
Feature Stories

Sisters Are Doin’ it for Themselves

Renée Gray Beaumont -
Are you familiar with the Chinese term “yŏuhăo chéngshì”?Perhaps Sister Cities or Twin Towns? When two cities from different countries form a relationship, it is formally recognised as such after both head officials of the cities meet and a ceremony...
Destinations

Beers for Barack & Bourdain in Hanoi

Donyell Marshall -
The first order of business was learning how to cross the street. There are 5 million motorbikes in Hanoi among a population of about 7 million. They rush in and out of intersections like floodwaters. Pedestrian crossings are nothing...
Feature Stories

Belts, Roads & Botanical Threats to Biodiversity

Frank Hossack -
China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) aims to bring infrastructure investment, leading to massive increases in trade, to regions along the former Silk Road, and far beyond. Trouble is, more than a few extra uninvited guests are along for...
Feature Stories

Oldest this, Oldest that, Oldest Flower; Nanjinganthus

Renée Gray Beaumont -
"This shouldn’t be here. … This species has been extinct since the Cretaceous period", Paleobotanist, Ellie, in the movie “Jurassic Park” notes while studying a leaf she had just found. Imagine what she might have said had she just...
Big Reads

Rainbow Flatulence, or How Online Millennials Talk to Each Other

Kristen Wang -
Few things are such eye openers than than youth’s use of language when communicating with each other on social media. Such also offers a fascinating snapshot of today’s society as well as being an essential tool for keeping up...
Strainer

Chasing Tea in Wales, the Other, not-so-Chinese Dragon

Matthew Stedman -
Strainer is a Nanjing column. It is no accident that a tea enthusiast would choose the southern part of Jiangsu as a place to drink tea. Ours is a fine tea-growing and tea-consuming region, to say nothing of the...
Destinations

Big in Japan (But All Alone)

Kristen Wang -
Concluding my 1 and a half years of study in the UK, I planned to travel alone somewhere else before I got stuck with possible work. I chose Japan to run away from the hustle and bustle of China,...

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...
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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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