The Nanjinger

The first Women’s Football World Cup (WWC) ever held was, believe it or not, hosted by China. Twelve countries participated in the 1991 WWC event that effectively changed the history of women’s football. Seven World Cups...

Having clarity or confusion in answering this simple question will either drive all the right behaviour or leave you waffling in executing your daily mission in life. Some of you may remember the lyrics of an...

For 10 consecutive days this summer, Aha School took 130,000 Chinese children on a virtual tour of some of the world’s greatest museums, from the Louvre to the Guggenheim, the Vatican to Tokyo’s National Science Museum. ...

It was 17 December, 1903, when a controlled and powered flying machine, built by the Wright brothers, called the “Wright Flyer 1”, on its third attempt of the day, took off, achieving a maximum distance and altitude of approximately...

I find living in China causes me to be acutely aware of so many things I never thought I had to worry about back home. However, as I became more aware of the need for pure air, I began...

It both surprises and delights me that after living in Nanjing for 2 years I still regularly come across unexpected and intriguing architecture on the streets I tread every day. That is not because I walk head down, consumed...

In 2004, FIFA recognised China as the birthplace of football; Zibo, in Shandong province in fact, where a sport named Cuju has been played since the 3rd century BCE; one with a ball and hands not permitted. Nowadays, there...

One of our most primordial needs as humans is to understand our environment so we can adapt to it or make it adapt to us. We observe, analyze, dissect, measure, qualify and quantify in an effort...