Frank Hossack

Diplomacy Talks

On this Day in Chinese History; 27 August

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This day, 27 August, in 1975, Chairman Mao Zedong met with Cambodian statesman, Norodom Sihanouk, and others, after their arrival in Beijing from Pyongyang by special train; a meeting in which Mao praised the Cambodian people for daring to...
About Liaoning

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

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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...
About Liaoning

Dalian; a Colonial Square, a 1898 Shipyard and 1,900 Kilometres of Coast

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Every summer, thousands descend on Xinghai Square with beer in plastic bags and blankets spread across the lawn. The square is built on reclaimed coastline in the south of the city, and by early evening the crowd is thick...
Diplomacy Talks

On this Day in Chinese History; 26 August

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This day, 26 August, in 1960, the Government of the People’s Republic of China and the Government of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan signed the Sino-Afghanistan Treaty of Friendship and Non-Aggression in Kabul. The Treaty states that the two...
About Liaoning

Anshan; Steel, Jade and a Thousand Peaks

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Steel is still the word most often put beside Anshan, and with reason. Ninety kilometres south of Shenyang, this Liaoning city of more than three million people grew around iron, mills, mountains, jade and hot spring water. 钢铁仍然是人们提到鞍山时最先想到的词，而且并非没有道理。这座辽宁城市位于沈阳以南约90公里，人口超过300万，围绕铁矿、钢厂、山地、玉石和温泉水发展起来。 The name means...
About Liaoning

Fushun; Coal, Lei Feng and Qing Beginnings on the Hun River

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Seen from the Hun River, Fushun is a city of apartment blocks, older works, bridges and hills. Its modern shape was built on coal; its national place has also been formed by revolutionary memory and the older history of...
About Liaoning

Benxi; Green Steel, Ancient Water and a City Claimed by Maples

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Way long before Liaoning province built its reputation on heavy industry, the hills around Benxi were already doing something quieter; growing the forest that now covers more than three quarters of the city's land.早在辽宁把重工业名声做出来之前，本溪周边的山坡就在做一件更安静的事；养出如今覆盖了这座城市四分之三以上土地的森林。 That contrast, between blast furnace and...
Diplomacy Talks

On this Day in Chinese History; 25 August

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This day, 25 August, 2004, the 10th Conference of Diplomatic Envoys to Foreign Countries was held in Beijing, with 222 ambassadors, consul generals and representatives to international organisations in attendance. 2004年8月25日的这一天，在北京举行了第十届外交使节会议，有222名大使、总领事和国际组织代表出席了会议。
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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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