Frank Hossack

Huainan; Where Coal Dust, Tofu and Chu Kings Rewrote a City

Smoke-blackened in memory yet brighter in ambition, Huainan in Anhui Province is the sort of city that catches people leaning on old assumptions; file it away as coal country and it answers with tofu, tombs, philosophy and the stubborn...

On this Day in Chinese History; 22 June

This day, 22 June, 1979, the People’s Republic of China and the Republic of Ireland established diplomatic relations. Ireland has since benefitted greatly from its relationship with China, to the extent of marking the diplomatic relations’ anniversary in 2019...

Ma’anshan; Where Steel, Poetry and Nanjing’s Pull Meet the River

Steel-hearted at first glance yet softer on second look, Ma’anshan in Anhui Province is a city that lives in two registers at once; one forged by blast furnaces and river docks, the other by poems, legends and Nanjing breathing...

On this Day in Chinese History; 21 June

This day, 21 June, in 1956, the Supreme People's Procuratorate of China announced that 1,017 Japanese war criminals would be exempted from prosecution and released back to Japan in batches. 45 war criminals gulty of particularly serious crimes were...

Huaibei; Coal, History and a Fresh Pulse on Anhui’s Northern Edge

Huaibei arrives in the imagination as a coal city, blackened and blunt, but the real place in northern Anhui is stranger and brighter; it sits where Jiangsu, Henan and Anhui meet, carries more than 4,000 years of history and...

On this Day in Chinese History; 20 June

This day, 20 June, in 2016, President Xi Jinping and Polish President Andrzej Sebastian Duda jointly attended a ceremony marking the arrival of the first China-Europe Railway Express in Warsaw, Poland. Demand for freight along the route has significantly...

Tongling Shines Beyond Copper; Bridges, New Industry, a City Recasting Itself

Fresh along the lower Yangtze, Tongling still feels like a city built from hammer blows, river wind and the steady pull of ore from the earth. It is smaller than many of Anhui’s better-known neighbours; yet it carries a...

On this Day in Chinese History; 19 June

This day, 19 June, 1931, Pearl Buck’s novel “The Good Earth” was published. Translated in to more than 100 languages and distributed worldwide, the novel  won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1932, while Buck herself won the Nobel...

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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