Frank Hossack

Emperor Zhenzong of the Song dynasty was so impressed by the local porcelain in 1004 that he ordered the town, then called Changnan, renamed after his own reigning era, Jingde, an honour historians describe as rare among Chinese cities. 宋代真宗皇帝于公元一零零四年,因十分赞赏当地所产瓷器,下令将这座原名"昌南"的小镇,以自己的年号"景德"重新命名;史学界认为,这样的殊荣,在中国城市之中实属罕见。 Porcelain...

Seventeen thousand miners and railway workers walked off the job in Anyuan, on the edge of Pingxiang, at two in the morning on 14 September 1922, in a strike organised by Mao Zedong, Liu Shaoqi and Li Lisan that...

Nine rivers were once said to converge at the spot where Jiujiang grew into Jiangxi's main water port, giving the city a name that literally means Nine Rivers; within a matter of decades, what actually converged there was something...

This day, 23 September, in 1997, the annual meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund opened in Hong Kong, as the first large-scale international conference hosted by Hong Kong after its return to China. 1997年9月23日的这一天，世界银行和国际货币基金组织的年度会议在香港开幕，这是香港返回中国后主办的第一次大型国际会议。

Gan Bao recorded, in a fourth-century compilation of supernatural tales, the story of a Xinyu man who stole a bathing celestial maiden's feathered robe so she could not fly home, forcing her to become his wife. 干宝在其四世纪的志怪小说合集中,记载了一则故事;新余的一名男子,趁一位沐浴的仙女不备,偷走了她的羽衣,使她无法飞回天庭,只能被迫嫁给他为妻。 Scholars now consider this...

Yingtan calls itself China's capital of copper and hosts the largest copper smelter on Earth, yet it does not boast a single copper mine of its own; ore is trucked or shipped in from both China and abroad, refined...

Communist Party leaders proclaimed the Chinese Soviet Republic in Ruijin, a Ganzhou county town, in November 1931, complete with its own government, flag and national congress, eighteen years before the People's Republic of China they eventually founded in Beijing. 一九三一年十一月,中共领导人在赣州下辖的瑞金县城,宣布成立中华苏维埃共和国,拥有自己的政府、旗帜与全国代表大会,比他们最终在北京建立的中华人民共和国,足足早了十八年。 Mao...

Survivors of the failed Nanchang Uprising trekked for months through four provinces before finally reaching a remote mountain range straddling the Hunan-Jiangxi border in April 1928, where they joined a peasant army led by Mao Zedong to form what...