Frank Hossack

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On this Day in Chinese History; 5 October

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This day, 5 October, in 1961, China and Nepal signed a boundary treaty in Beijing, which came immediately into effect. Based on the China-Nepal Boundary Agreement of the previous year, and in accordance with the “Five Principles of Peaceful...
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Baoding; the Old Provincial Capital that Trained More than 1,500 Generals

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Mongol troops took the city then called Baozhou in 1213, burned and slaughtered for three days and left it a ruin, until the general Zhang Rou, a former Jin commander who had joined the Mongols, rebuilt it in 1227. 一二一三年,蒙古军攻陷当时名为保州的这座城市,焚烧屠戮长达三天,将其变成一片废墟;直到一二二七年,曾为金将、后归降蒙古的将领张柔,才重建了这座城池。 After...
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Zhangjiakou; Once Kalgan, the Great Wall’s Tea Gate, Now an Olympic Host

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Europeans knew this city as Kalgan until the mid-20th century, from a Mongolian word meaning a gate in a barrier; it was the Great Wall gate where camel caravans loaded with tea began their long journey north to Russia. 直到二十世纪中叶,欧洲人仍称这座城市为"喀拉干",这一名称源自蒙古语中意为"屏障之门"的词汇;这里是长城上的一道关口,满载茶叶的骆驼商队正是从此出发,踏上北往俄罗斯的漫长旅程。 Its...
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Chengde; the Imperial Summer Capital that Gave China Its First Bandy Match

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Sweden won an eighth women's bandy world title in Chengde in January 2018, on naturally frozen lake ice inside a UNESCO World Heritage palace garden, at a tournament where organisers had aimed to attract twelve nations and eight took...
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Cangzhou; the City Guarded by a Forty-Tonne Iron Lion

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Craftsmen cast Cangzhou's great iron lion in 953, during the Later Zhou dynasty, covering its hollow belly with text from the Diamond Sutra. Why they made it remains uncertain; one enduring local tradition holds that the lion, later known...
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Langfang; the City that Stopped a Train to Beijing

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Two thousand soldiers from eight nations, trying to reach Beijing by train in June 1900, found their track torn up again and again by Boxer fighters; at Langfang, Qing troops including Dong Fuxiang's Gansu forces joined them, and the...
Diplomacy Talks

On this Day in Chinese History; 4 October

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This day, 4 October, in 1988, Deng Xiaoping met with Helmut Schmidt, former German Chancellor. When Deng talked about what new order and principles could replace international relations, he said, “As far as my personal knowledge goes, what can...
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Hengshui; the City that Named a Hospital after a Real Indiana Jones

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Canadian doctor Tillson Harrison first delivered badly needed medical supplies to the Handan International Peace Hospital in September 1946. Four months later, he set out from Shanghai with another convoy through Nationalist-controlled territory; a journey that should have taken...
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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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