Frank Hossack

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Changde; The City that Built a Tourist Attraction out of a Place that Cannot Be Found

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Tao Yuanming wrote, in 365 AD, about a fisherman who stumbled into a hidden valley of blossoming peach trees, stayed for days, and marked his route home so carefully that he still could never find his way back a...
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Zhuzhou; The Cradle of China’s Electric Locomotives, Built on a Poisoned River

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China's first domestically built mainline electric locomotive rolled off a production line in Zhuzhou in 1958, a single unit numbered 6Y1-0001 that gave the city a nickname it has kept ever since, the cradle of China's electric locomotives. 一九五八年,中国第一台国产干线电力机车,在株洲的生产线上正式下线,编号为6Y1-0001;这座城市也因此获得了一个沿用至今的称号——"中国电力机车的摇篮"。 CRRC Zhuzhou...
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Xiangtan; Two Men Born a Few Kilometres Apart, One Purged by the Other

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Mao Zedong and Peng Dehuai were both born within a few kilometres of each other in rural Xiangtan, one in Shaoshan village in 1893, the other in nearby Wushi in 1898; one went on to found the People's Republic,...
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Hengyang; The City Where Migrating Geese Were Once Believed to Turn Back

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Migrating geese flying south from Siberia each winter were once thought to travel no further than Hengyang before turning back north come spring, stopping instead at a modest 97-metre peak on the edge of the city that still carries...
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Shaoyang; The Forgotten Book that Helped Japan Learn to Defeat China

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Wei Yuan published a book in 1843 urging China to master Western technology to defeat the West with its own weapons; Chinese officials mostly ignored it, but Japanese readers importing copies 10 years later treated it as a founding...
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Yueyang; Schoolchildren take Note of the Essay with Unique Credentials

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Fan Zhongyan never once stood inside Yueyang Tower before writing the essay about it that every Chinese schoolchild has since memorised, working instead from a single painting his exiled friend mailed him along with a request for a few...
Diplomacy Talks

On this Day in Chinese History; 14 September

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This day, 14 September, in 2017, China’s first biometric visa was issued by the Chinese Embassy in Nigeria. With the applicant’s face and fingerprint information thereon, biometric visas comply with the development trend of international visa technology, help improve...
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Zhangjiajie; The City that Renamed Itself, Then Renamed a Mountain

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Government officials renamed the entire city in 1994, dropping thirteen centuries of history as Dayong to borrow the fame of a national park most of its own residents could not yet find on a map, a decision widely credited...
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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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