Frank Hossack

On this Day in Chinese History; 25 June

This day, 25 June, in 1998, US President Bill Clinton made a visit China, the first by a sitting US president in nearly a decade. With Chinese President Jiang Zemin paying a state visit to the US in 1997,...

Hefei; from Bao Zheng and Battlefields to Chips and Quantum Dreams

Set beside one of China’s great freshwater lakes, yet increasingly known for chips, cars and quantum dreams, Hefei is the sort of city that has spent just enough time being underestimated to turn reinvention into a civic habit there...

Gold Trail Ends in Nanjing as Police Recover ¥27 Million Haul

Smoke and spectacle usually belong in crime films, not in a June briefing in Nanjing, where police revealed how ¥27 million in stolen gold had vanished from Jiangning, crossed borders and oceans, and then, piece by glittering piece, came...

On this Day in Chinese History; 24 June

This day, 24 June in 1960, at a meeting of representatives of 12 socialist countries held in Bucharest, Soviet Communist Party General Secretary Nikita Khrushchev from out of nowhere made serious accusations against the Communist Party of China. Such...

Wuhu; from Rice Barges & Treaty Ports to Cars & Monorails

Crossing the Yangtze into Wuhu, many would not at first suspect they are entering one of Anhui’s most quietly consequential cities; a place where rice, river trade, old foreign links and modern industry have learned, rather neatly, to live...

Bengbu; Pearl City Pulled by Railways, Glass and the Broad Huai

Silvery by nickname and stubborn by history, Bengbu still carries the feel of a city pulled into being by water, pearls and railways; yet beneath that old industrial skin, the so-called Pearl City is busy teaching itself newer tricks. 以“珠城”为名的蚌埠,骨子里却并不柔弱。这座城市像是被河水、珍珠和铁路一路拉扯着长大的;而在那层旧工业气质之下,它如今也正悄悄学会一些更新的本事。 The...

On this Day in Chinese History; 23 June

This day, 23 June, in 1992, international trains started running between Urumqi and Almaty, marking the opening of road, air and rail transport between China and the Republic of Kazakhstan. Cutting the ribbon, Chinese Vice Premier Wu Xueqian said...

Huainan; Where Coal Dust, Tofu and Chu Kings Rewrote a City

Smoke-blackened in memory yet brighter in ambition, Huainan in Anhui Province is the sort of city that catches people leaning on old assumptions; file it away as coal country and it answers with tofu, tombs, philosophy and the stubborn...

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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