Frank Hossack

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On this Day in Chinese History; 31 August

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This day, 31 August, in 2000, the closing ceremony of the Millennium Peace Summit of Religious and Spiritual Leaders was held in New York. Therein, Master Shenghui, vice president of the Buddhist Association of China, delivered a prayer for...
About Hubei

Xianning; Hot Springs, Old Osmanthus and a Battle that Named an Era

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Hubei calls Xianning its "southern gate", a reference to it being that last stretch of the province before the Yangtze's south bank opens up to give way to Hunan Province and Jiangxi Province in the southern distance. 湖北人称咸宁为"湖北南大门"，这里是长江南岸进入湖南、江西之前的最后一段。 Administratively, Xianning covers...
About Hubei

Suizhou; Bells, Shennong and a Catholic Footnote

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Suizhou sits in a hilly belt where the Jianghan Plain gives way to the Central Plain. The roads rise early, and the built-up parts sit in the folds of the land. A 2024 city bulletin puts Suizhou’s GDP at...
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On this Day in Chinese History; 30 August

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This day, 30 August, in 2016, the Chinese embassy in the Kyrgyz Republic was attacked by a suicide car bomber. The attacker was killed on the spot and three embassy employees, all Kyrgyz nationals, were injured. The Chinese Ministry...
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US Dept of Justice Says Nanjing Firm Hacked NASA, Senate & More

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A sharp new cyber case has put a Nanjing company at the centre of a much wider political row. The U.S. Justice Department says it has disrupted an alleged Chinese hacking operation penetrating NASA, the Senate, the Federal Reserve...
About Hubei

Enshi; 3.46 Million People, Tea Slopes and a UNESCO Geopark

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Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture is the full name. After that, Enshi will do. It sits in south-western Hubei and remains the province’s only autonomous prefecture.恩施土家族苗族自治州是全称，后面直接说恩施就行。它在湖北西南部，也是湖北唯一的自治州。 The prefecture covers about 24,000 square kilometres. In the old founding report from...
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On this Day in Chinese History; 29 August

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This day, 29 August, in 1842, the “Nanjing Treaty”, ceding Hong Kong to Britain, was signed on board HMS Cornwallis, at anchor in the Yangtze River in Nanjing, as the first so-called “unequal treaty” imposed upon the Chinese people...
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On this Day in Chinese History; 28 August

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This day, 28 August, in 2001, a ministerial meeting of China, Laos, Myanmar and Thailand regarding anti-drug cooperation was held in Beijing, in which the “Beijing Declaration” was discussed and adopted, as a useful practice for the governments of...
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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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