Frank Hossack

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Ji’an; Where the Survivors of a Failed Uprising Built an Army from Nothing

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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...
Big Reads

Taiwan Minister’s Rare China Trip Highlights One-Way Street Across the Strait

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Sunday 20 September saw Taiwan's Labour Minister Hung Sun-han board a flight to Nanjing, to become the first cabinet-level official in President Lai Ching-te's administration to set foot on mainland China. A flight, yes, but for the waves created...
Diplomacy Talks

On this Day in Chinese History; 22 September

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This day, 22 September, in 1990, China hosted the Asian Games for the first time, as also the first occasion on which China did so for a comprehensive international sports competition. Under the theme of “Unity, Friendship and Progress”,...
About Jiangxi

Yichun; The Zen Rule that Began with an Elderly Monk’s Hunger Strike

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Monks at Baizhang Mountain hid their elderly abbot's farm tools one day, hoping to spare him physical labour; Baizhang refused to eat until the tools were returned; the phrase produced, "A day without work is a day without food",...
About Jiangxi

Fuzhou; The Small Jiangxi City that Produced Nearly Three Thousand Imperial Scholars

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Chinese sources tracking the imperial examination system estimate that roughly 100,000 jinshi degrees, the highest a scholar could earn, were awarded across the entire history of the exam; nearly 3,000 of them came from Fuzhou alone, a single prefecture...
Diplomacy Talks

On this Day in Chinese History; 21 September

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This day, 21 September, in 1988, when Deng Xiaoping met with Sri Lankan Prime Minister, Sri Lankabhimanya Ranasing, he referred to the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence, with regard especially to relations with neighbouring countries. Deng said these principles...
Diplomacy Talks

On this Day in Chinese History; 20 September

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This day, 20 September, in 1994, at the 38th General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Chinese representative, Ambassador Chen Shiqiu, together with those of 38 other countries, including Britain, France, Germany, India, Japan, Pakistan, Russia and the...
Diplomacy Talks

On this Day in Chinese History; 19 September

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This day, 19 September, in 1950, China’s ascent to the United Nations was denied, after which the USSR’s representative stated, “It is high time to put an end to the unjust attitude adopted by the United Nations towards the...
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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

Shanghai Climate Week coincides with Earth Day and highlights China's dual-carbon commitments. And while its object as also a...
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