Frank Hossack

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...

Anqing; River Port City Where Opera, Bridges and Memory Keep Moving

Southern Anhui is characterised by the lower Yangtze, where Anqing carries an easy river calm that hides how much history sits under its streets. It is a port city, a theatre town and an old industrial base; yet it...

On this Day in Chinese History; 18 June

This day, 18 June, in 1978, at the invitation of the Pakistani government, Vice Premier Geng Biao led a Chinese government delegation to attend the completion ceremony of the Karakoram Highway. Together, tens of thousands of engineers and labourers...

Huangshan; Where the Mountain Still Sets The Pace

Steep peaks still dominate the horizon here, and that is the point. Huangshan is one of those rare cities where the mountain is not just a backdrop but the main character; the rest of the place has spent centuries...

Chuzhou; Keeping its Own Pace With Hills, Rails and New Ambition

Chuzhou does not need to shout to be noticed. It sits on the edge of Anhui, looking east towards Jiangsu and the wider pull of the Yangtze River Delta; yet it still keeps the manners of a city that...

On this Day in Chinese History; 17 June

This day, 17 June, 1967, China detonated its first hydrogen bomb over the west of the country, while the government declared that China will not be the first to use nuclear weapons at any time and under any circumstances....

Fuyang; Finding its Own Voice between River Plain and High Speed Rail

Fuyang sits in the north-west of Anhui, as broad as a map and busier than many outsiders expect. It has the feel of a city built on distance, yet also one that has learned to use that distance well;...

On this Day in Chinese History; 16 June

This day, 16 June, in 1994, the Information Office of the State Council issued a white paper entitled, “The Status of Intellectual Property Protection in China”, expounding China’s intentions to abide by relevant international conventions and bilateral agreements on...

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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