Frank Hossack

About Fujian

Quanzhou; Sea Routes, Stone Streets and an Endless Appetite for Trade

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Southward on Fujian’s coast, Quanzhou still behaves like a port before it behaves like a heritage site. Ships no longer define the skyline, yet the city keeps its outward habit; in stone lanes, factory parks and temple courtyards, trade...
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On this Day in Chinese History; 17 July

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This day, 17 July, in 1945, Chiang Kai-shek for China, Winston Churchill for the UK and Harry S. Truman for the USA, issued the Potsdam Declaration, in part calling on the Japanese government to immediately declare the unconditional surrender...
About Fujian

Zhangzhou; River Plain, Tulou Walls and a Strong Commercial Streak

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South Fujian hands Zhangzhou a broad stage, a plain, a river and a coast that all seem to keep moving at once. The city lives between them, with old lanes in the centre, the famed "roundhouses" in the hills...
About Fujian

Nanping; Wuyi Mountains, Tea Roads and a Borderland with its own Tempo

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Northwest Fujian does not feel like a single city so much as a map folded along ridges and river bends. Nanping stretches across that fold with tea hills, bamboo slopes and border roads; Wuyi Mountain is still the name...
About Fujian

Longyan; Red Memory, Tulou Walls and a City Still Hard at Work

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Steam hangs over Longyan in the morning, caught between the hills of western Fujian and the first buses into town. The city feels old in the bones, but its news feeds are busy, and that mix gives it a...
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On this Day in Chinese History; 16 July

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This day, 16 July, in 1966, Chairman Mao Zedong took the last of his 17 swims in the Yangtze River as he particpated in the 11th annual cross-river event that attracted as many as 5,000 swimmers. Mao was an...
About Fujian

Ningde; Sea Spray, Tea Hills and a Coastline with a Pulse

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Sea spray reaches Ningde before the skyline does. The city sits on Fujian’s north-east rim, where the road keeps running into hills and the hills keep leaning back towards the sea. Life here starts wet, salty and practical. 海风总是先到宁德，楼群还在后面慢慢追上来。这里在福建东北角，路走着走着就会碰上山，山再慢慢把人推回海边。宁德的生活一开始就是湿的、咸的，也是很务实的。 Drive east...
Diplomacy Talks

On this Day in Chinese History; 15 July

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This day, 15 July, 1979, the CPC Central Committee and the State Council approved two reports from the CPC Guangdong Provincial Committee and the Fujian Provincial Committee on implementing special policies and flexible measures for foreign economic activities, moving...
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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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