Frank Hossack

About Henan

Luoyang; Old Capital Noise, Peonies and Faces Eaten Away by Time

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This is one of those cities with a lot in its hands. 13 dynasties, peonies, grottoes, old capital memory, White Horse Temple, museum country, food, night streets. Overstuffed like that. But on the ground, Luoyang feels more like a...
About Henan

Pingdingshan; A Flat Mountain, a Working City, and a Few Things that Stayed

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Half the work before you arrive is already done. Pingdingshan is one of those Henan cities that is a flat mountain. Simple enough. You hear it once, and then the picture starts on its own. Yet naturally, it is...
About Henan

Anyang; Bones, Smoke, and the Slightly Ungainly Business of Remembering

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Not arriving politely, Anyang comes with too much history and not much interest in apologising for that. You feel it in the ruins, of course, but also in the ordinary city around them, which is often the more convincing...
Big Reads

Summer Traffic at Airports Across the Yangtze River Delta Explodes in 2026

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June did what June always does in the Yangtze River Delta; it pulled everyone towards the gates, the airport gates, that is. School holidays began, suitcases appeared everywhere and the region’s civil airports handled 23,766,128 passengers in the month...
Diplomacy Talks

On this Day in Chinese History; 5 August

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This day, 5 August, in 1996, China was host to, and attendee at, the Asia-Africa Forum on Combating Desertification held in Beijing to enable African and Asian countries and their development partners to develop a framework for action as...
Diplomacy Talks

On this Day in Chinese History; 4 August

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This day, 4 August, 2003, chemical warfare agents found to be mustard gas leaked from five drums that were uncovered at a construction site in Qiqihar City of Heilongjiang Province. 1 person died of multiple organ failure as a...
Diplomacy Talks

On this Day in Chinese History; 3 August

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This day, 3 August, in 2019, heavy rainfall and flooding caused 10 people to drown in some parts of Shanxi Province. With damage to crops, homes and infrastructure such as roads and bridges, the disaster affected 96,000 people and...
About Henan

Hebi; River, Coal, Cherry Blossom, and the Odd Grace of a Northern Henan City

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Hebi does not arrive as one big idea. It comes in pieces. A river first, perhaps. Then an old wall, a mountain road, coal dust somewhere behind the buildings, and, come at the right time, cherry blossoms with half...
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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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