Frank Hossack

Big Reads

“China 911” brings Low Altitude Flights into Question Nationwide

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This week’s Suzhou cancellation brought the Beijing crash much closer to home. A helicopter ride I won in a lucky draw was cancelled today, and the bigger question is now plain enough; are the new rules being rolled out...
Diplomacy Talks

On this Day in Chinese History; 7 August

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This day, 7 August, in 1971, the Chinese government issued a statement on the issue of nuclear weapons to advocate convening a world summit to discuss the complete prohibition and thorough destruction of nuclear weapons, and expressing the belief...
Diplomacy Talks

On this Day in Chinese History; 6 August

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This day, 6 August, in 1946, Chairman Mao Zedong first proposed the “middle ground” theory when he met with American journalist, Anna Louise Strong, in reference to the extremely vast area between the United States and the Soviet Union,...
About Henan

Zhengzhou; Freight, Temple Bells and the Restless Pull of the Centre

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Given a damp evening near Erqi Square, Zhengzhou feels less like a capital trying to impress and more like it's late for something. A cargo plane hums somewhere above the roofs; a train comes through the timetable with its...
About Henan

Kaifeng; Water, Walls, and the Slightly Stubborn Mood of an Old Capital

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Kaifeng has the odd habit of making history feel casual. It has been a capital, a river city, a place buried and re-exposed by the Yellow River, and a city that keeps rebuilding itself without making a speech about...
About Henan

Luoyang; Old Capital Noise, Peonies and Faces Eaten Away by Time

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This is one of those cities with a lot in its hands. 13 dynasties, peonies, grottoes, old capital memory, White Horse Temple, museum country, food, night streets. Overstuffed like that. But on the ground, Luoyang feels more like a...
About Henan

Pingdingshan; A Flat Mountain, a Working City, and a Few Things that Stayed

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Half the work before you arrive is already done. Pingdingshan is one of those Henan cities that is a flat mountain. Simple enough. You hear it once, and then the picture starts on its own. Yet naturally, it is...
About Henan

Anyang; Bones, Smoke, and the Slightly Ungainly Business of Remembering

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Not arriving politely, Anyang comes with too much history and not much interest in apologising for that. You feel it in the ruins, of course, but also in the ordinary city around them, which is often the more convincing...
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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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