Frank Hossack

Diplomacy Talks

On this Day in Chinese History; 16 September

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This day, 16 September, in 1986, Deng Xiaoping met with Taisto Kalevi Sorsa, Prime Minister of Finland, as the first Finnish head of government to visit China since diplomatic relations were established. During their talk, Deng said, “Our opening...
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On this Day in Chinese History; 15 September

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This day, 15 September, in 1999, saw the successful conclusion of the 22nd Universal Postal Union Congress in Beijing, at which was adopted the Beijing Postal Strategy, a world postal development program. The Universal Postal Union was founded on...
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Changsha; 2,000 Years of History behind China’s Loudest Party City

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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...
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Changde; The City that Built a Tourist Attraction out of a Place that Cannot Be Found

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Tao Yuanming wrote, in 365 AD, about a fisherman who stumbled into a hidden valley of blossoming peach trees, stayed for days, and marked his route home so carefully that he still could never find his way back a...
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Zhuzhou; The Cradle of China’s Electric Locomotives, Built on a Poisoned River

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China's first domestically built mainline electric locomotive rolled off a production line in Zhuzhou in 1958, a single unit numbered 6Y1-0001 that gave the city a nickname it has kept ever since, the cradle of China's electric locomotives. 一九五八年,中国第一台国产干线电力机车,在株洲的生产线上正式下线,编号为6Y1-0001;这座城市也因此获得了一个沿用至今的称号——"中国电力机车的摇篮"。 CRRC Zhuzhou...
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Xiangtan; Two Men Born a Few Kilometres Apart, One Purged by the Other

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Mao Zedong and Peng Dehuai were both born within a few kilometres of each other in rural Xiangtan, one in Shaoshan village in 1893, the other in nearby Wushi in 1898; one went on to found the People's Republic,...
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Hengyang; The City Where Migrating Geese Were Once Believed to Turn Back

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Migrating geese flying south from Siberia each winter were once thought to travel no further than Hengyang before turning back north come spring, stopping instead at a modest 97-metre peak on the edge of the city that still carries...
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Shaoyang; The Forgotten Book that Helped Japan Learn to Defeat China

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Wei Yuan published a book in 1843 urging China to master Western technology to defeat the West with its own weapons; Chinese officials mostly ignored it, but Japanese readers importing copies 10 years later treated it as a founding...
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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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