Frank Hossack

On this Day in Chinese History; 11 September

This day, 11 September, in 1973, French President, Georges Pompidou, visited China, becoming the first sitting head of state from a Western European country to do so. Met at the airport personally by Premier Zhou Enlai, and Vice Premier...

On this Day in Chinese History; 10 September

This day, 10 September, in 1960, President Ahmed Sékou Touré of the Republic of Guinea paid an official visit to China at the invitation of Chinese President, Liu Shaoqi, as the first African head of state to do so....

On this Day in Chinese History; 9 September

This day, 9 September, in 1976, Chairman Mao Zedong passed away in Beijing. From then on until 18 September, flags across the country were flown at half mast and all entertainment activities were stopped. Heads of state, government and...

Xiangxi; The Mountain Village that Changed How China Fights Poverty

Shi Chengfu's courtyard became, on 3 November 2013, the exact spot where President Xi Jinping first used the phrase "targeted poverty alleviation" during a visit to Shibadong, a Miao village in Huayuan county, a phrase that went on to...

On this Day in Chinese History; 8 September

This day, 8 September, in 1984, when Deng Xiaoping met with Francesco Cossiga, Italian President, he said that there are many potential flashpoints in the world and it is impossible to solve them without adopting new methods suited for...

Changsha; 2,000 Years of History behind China’s Loudest Party City

Surgeons who first examined Lady Xin Zhui's body in 1972 found her joints still movable, her skin elastic, and her blood group identifiable, some 2,100 years after her burial in a tomb northeast of modern Changsha, at Mawangdui. 一九七二年,医护人员首次对辛追夫人的遗体进行检验时发现,历经两千一百年,她的关节依然可以活动,皮肤仍富有弹性,甚至连血型都能辨识,而她的墓葬,就位于今日长沙城东北的马王堆。 Her tomb...

Wuhan Runs on Rivers, Rails and Three Towns

Wuhan sits where the Yangtze meets the Han; the city still carries three older names with it. Wuchang, Hankou and Hanyang are one now, but they remain useful labels when you are crossing a river, changing stations or asking...

Huangshi; Hills Sun Quan Mined for Weapons Still Being Dug Today

Sun Quan ordered furnaces built at Tieshan in 226 AD to forge weapons for his fledgling kingdom, tapping ore deposits so rich that miners kept returning to the same hills on and off for the next seventeen centuries, using...

About Me

Editor-in-Chief of The Nanjinger, Frank Hossack, is a multi-award winning Radio/TV host and voice-over artist who has worked in China for the past 32 years. Frank has also written for Time magazine, the Wall Street Journal and The Times, appeared on the BBC and LBC, and been cited by CNN, China Daily and the New York Times, among many others.
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