Frank Hossack

About Henan

Luohe; Rivers, Meat, and a City in Tune with its Lunch

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Easy to flatten into a slogan, Luohe is a food city, river city, factory city. All true, but none quite enough. That you actually meet is a place where the water comes first, the industry came later, and the...
Diplomacy Talks

On this Day in Chinese History; 29 July

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This day, 29 July, in 1985, the State Council approved the expansion of the scope of the Xiamen Special Economic Zone to cover the entirety of Xiamen Island and the island of Gulangyu. While the former constitutes the core...
About Henan

Sanmenxia; A Dam, a River & the Things Silt Remembers

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Sanmenxia is not a city one can write about honestly by treating the Yellow River as scenery. The river is not background here. It is the reason, the argument and, quite often, the problem. Hence its very big damned...
About Henan

Nanyang; Wise Men, Warm Bowls & Water Heading North

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Nanyang has enough history to make writing about it difficult. There are emperors, strategists, physicians, temples, fossils, jade and one of China’s largest water projects. Put all of that into the first few paragraphs and the city starts to...
About Henan

Shangqiu; Old Walls, Fire Altars & a Nanjing Not Ours

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Shangqiu has the kind of history that can become exhausting if handled badly. Shang origins, fire worship, ancient academies, Han tombs, old city walls, Confucius connections, Zhuangzi connections; after a while, the names start queuing up like officials at...
About Henan

Xinyang; Tea, Rain & the Softer Edge of Henan

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Xinyang does not feel quite like the Henan most people imagine first. It is still Henan, of course, but the air has changed. The fields are greener, the hills are closer, and the weather has a dampness that makes...
About Henan

Zhoukou; Rivers, Ancestors & Breakfast Soup

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Zhoukou is easy to underestimate; it does not arrive with a single famous skyline or mountain. It is flatter, wider, more agricultural, and at first glance more ordinary than many Henan cities. That's not a weakness; the place just...
Diplomacy Talks

On this Day in Chinese History; 28 July

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This day, 28 July in 1984, China returned to the international community after 32 years away from the Olympics to participate in the 23rd Olympic Games held in Los Angeles, USA. Sending the largest sports delegation in history, with...
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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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