Frank Hossack

About Hubei

Enshi; 3.46 Million People, Tea Slopes and a UNESCO Geopark

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Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture is the full name. After that, Enshi will do. It sits in south-western Hubei and remains the province’s only autonomous prefecture.恩施土家族苗族自治州是全称，后面直接说恩施就行。它在湖北西南部，也是湖北唯一的自治州。 The prefecture covers about 24,000 square kilometres. In the old founding report from...
Diplomacy Talks

On this Day in Chinese History; 29 August

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This day, 29 August, in 1842, the “Nanjing Treaty”, ceding Hong Kong to Britain, was signed on board HMS Cornwallis, at anchor in the Yangtze River in Nanjing, as the first so-called “unequal treaty” imposed upon the Chinese people...
Diplomacy Talks

On this Day in Chinese History; 28 August

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This day, 28 August, in 2001, a ministerial meeting of China, Laos, Myanmar and Thailand regarding anti-drug cooperation was held in Beijing, in which the “Beijing Declaration” was discussed and adopted, as a useful practice for the governments of...
Diplomacy Talks

On this Day in Chinese History; 27 August

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This day, 27 August, in 1975, Chairman Mao Zedong met with Cambodian statesman, Norodom Sihanouk, and others, after their arrival in Beijing from Pyongyang by special train; a meeting in which Mao praised the Cambodian people for daring to...
About Liaoning

Shenyang; An Old Capital with Ordinary Streets, Winter Bones and Factory Lights

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Shenyang is not trying to be anyone’s elegant surprise. It comes at you with palace roofs, winter air, traffic noise, and the blunt fact that it has spent a long time making things, ruling things, and then making things...
About Liaoning

Dalian; a Colonial Square, a 1898 Shipyard and 1,900 Kilometres of Coast

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Every summer, thousands descend on Xinghai Square with beer in plastic bags and blankets spread across the lawn. The square is built on reclaimed coastline in the south of the city, and by early evening the crowd is thick...
Diplomacy Talks

On this Day in Chinese History; 26 August

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This day, 26 August, in 1960, the Government of the People’s Republic of China and the Government of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan signed the Sino-Afghanistan Treaty of Friendship and Non-Aggression in Kabul. The Treaty states that the two...
About Liaoning

Anshan; Steel, Jade and a Thousand Peaks

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Steel is still the word most often put beside Anshan, and with reason. Ninety kilometres south of Shenyang, this Liaoning city of more than three million people grew around iron, mills, mountains, jade and hot spring water. 钢铁仍然是人们提到鞍山时最先想到的词，而且并非没有道理。这座辽宁城市位于沈阳以南约90公里，人口超过300万，围绕铁矿、钢厂、山地、玉石和温泉水发展起来。 The name means...
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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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