Frank Hossack

Diplomacy Talks

On this Day in Chinese History; 22 June

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This day, 22 June, 1979, the People’s Republic of China and the Republic of Ireland established diplomatic relations. Ireland has since benefitted greatly from its relationship with China, to the extent of marking the diplomatic relations’ anniversary in 2019...
About Anhui

Ma’anshan; Where Steel, Poetry and Nanjing’s Pull Meet the River

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Steel-hearted at first glance yet softer on second look, Ma’anshan in Anhui Province is a city that lives in two registers at once; one forged by blast furnaces and river docks, the other by poems, legends and Nanjing breathing...
Diplomacy Talks

On this Day in Chinese History; 21 June

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This day, 21 June, in 1956, the Supreme People's Procuratorate of China announced that 1,017 Japanese war criminals would be exempted from prosecution and released back to Japan in batches. 45 war criminals gulty of particularly serious crimes were...
About Anhui

Huaibei; Coal, History and a Fresh Pulse on Anhui’s Northern Edge

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Huaibei arrives in the imagination as a coal city, blackened and blunt, but the real place in northern Anhui is stranger and brighter; it sits where Jiangsu, Henan and Anhui meet, carries more than 4,000 years of history and...
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On this Day in Chinese History; 20 June

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This day, 20 June, in 2016, President Xi Jinping and Polish President Andrzej Sebastian Duda jointly attended a ceremony marking the arrival of the first China-Europe Railway Express in Warsaw, Poland. Demand for freight along the route has significantly...
About Anhui

Tongling Shines Beyond Copper; Bridges, New Industry, a City Recasting Itself

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Fresh along the lower Yangtze, Tongling still feels like a city built from hammer blows, river wind and the steady pull of ore from the earth. It is smaller than many of Anhui’s better-known neighbours; yet it carries a...
About Anhui

Anqing; River Port City Where Opera, Bridges and Memory Keep Moving

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Southern Anhui is characterised by the lower Yangtze, where Anqing carries an easy river calm that hides how much history sits under its streets. It is a port city, a theatre town and an old industrial base; yet it...
Diplomacy Talks

On this Day in Chinese History; 18 June

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This day, 18 June, in 1978, at the invitation of the Pakistani government, Vice Premier Geng Biao led a Chinese government delegation to attend the completion ceremony of the Karakoram Highway. Together, tens of thousands of engineers and labourers...
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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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Tasty Solutions on the Menu at Shanghai Climate Week

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