Frank Hossack

Mid 19th century, British accounts were calling Foshan the Birmingham of China, after its iron foundries consumed most of Guangdong province's pig iron output; by then, casting furnaces had crowded the streets around the city's Ancestral Temple for centuries. 十九世纪，英文史料已将佛山称为"中国的伯明翰"，因为佛山的铸铁作坊消耗了广东省大部分的生铁产量；彼时，围绕祖庙一带的铸炉作坊，已经拥挤了数百年。 Guangdong's...

Jiangmen's government banned pet dogs from public places across its three urban districts in August 2011, after rabies had killed 42 people in the preceding three years; officials set aside a 13 acre site where rural residents could adopt...

French troops sailed into a fishing bay on the Leizhou Peninsula in the warship Bayard in April 1898, found a deep natural harbour and by November of the following year had forced China into a 99 year lease. The...

This day, 30 September, in 1988, Premier Li Peng delivered a National Day speech in which he noted that the USA and USSR had signed the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, while the latter had begun to withdraw its troops...

Tradition in Maoming holds that lychees picked from an orchard in Genzi township once travelled north by relay horse to please a Tang-dynasty emperor's favourite concubine; today the city grows roughly one in five of the world's lychees. 茂名有个说法，根子镇一处果园所产的荔枝，曾经由驿马接力向北送去，只为博得一位唐代皇帝宠妃一笑；如今，这座城市出产的荔枝约占全世界产量的五分之一。 The orchard,...

For years, Shanghai’s high-speed rail map has pulled passengers towards Hongqiao. That balance is beginning to change. New stations are taking shape in Pudong, Baoshan and Chongming, while another high-speed line will add stations in Fengxian and Jinshan. 多年来，上海的高铁版图一直把客流吸引到虹桥。如今，这种平衡正在发生变化。浦东、宝山和崇明的新车站陆续推进建设，另一条高铁线路还将在奉贤和金山增设车站。 For residents...

This day, 29 September, in 1954, Nikita Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, led a Soviet government delegation to Beijing pay a state visit and upon the invitation to participate...

Two Italian Jesuits put on Buddhist monks' robes and settled beside the West River in Zhaoqing in 1583; above the entrance to their residence hung a plaque calling it Xianhua Temple, written by the local prefect himself. 一五八三年，两名意大利耶稣会士身穿佛门僧袍，在肇庆西江边定居；他们的住所门上悬着一块匾额，题为"仙花寺"，出自当地知府亲笔。 In the early...