Frank Hossack

Shenyang; An Old Capital with Ordinary Streets, Winter Bones and Factory Lights

Shenyang is not trying to be anyone’s elegant surprise. It comes at you with palace roofs, winter air, traffic noise, and the blunt fact that it has spent a long time making things, ruling things, and then making things...

On this Day in Chinese History; 9 August

This day, 9 August, in 1953, Chinese swimmer, Wu Chuanyu, won the men's 100-metre backstroke championship with a time of 1 minute, 8.4 seconds, at the 4th World Festival of Youth and Students in Bucharest, Romania, becoming the first...

On this Day in Chinese History; 8 August

This day, 8 August, in 1990, the People's Republic of China resumed diplomatic relations with the Republic of Indonesia, after the relationship between the two countries deteriorated in 1965. In 1989, then Foreign Minister, Qian Oichen, went to Japan...

“China 911” brings Low Altitude Flights into Question Nationwide

This week’s Suzhou cancellation brought the Beijing crash much closer to home. A helicopter ride I won in a lucky draw was cancelled today, and the bigger question is now plain enough; are the new rules being rolled out...

On this Day in Chinese History; 7 August

This day, 7 August, in 1971, the Chinese government issued a statement on the issue of nuclear weapons to advocate convening a world summit to discuss the complete prohibition and thorough destruction of nuclear weapons, and expressing the belief...

On this Day in Chinese History; 6 August

This day, 6 August, in 1946, Chairman Mao Zedong first proposed the “middle ground” theory when he met with American journalist, Anna Louise Strong, in reference to the extremely vast area between the United States and the Soviet Union,...

Zhengzhou; Freight, Temple Bells and the Restless Pull of the Centre

Given a damp evening near Erqi Square, Zhengzhou feels less like a capital trying to impress and more like it's late for something. A cargo plane hums somewhere above the roofs; a train comes through the timetable with its...

Kaifeng; Water, Walls, and the Slightly Stubborn Mood of an Old Capital

Kaifeng has the odd habit of making history feel casual. It has been a capital, a river city, a place buried and re-exposed by the Yellow River, and a city that keeps rebuilding itself without making a speech about...

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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