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Frank Hossack

A Ruler More Obsessed by Poetry than Politics; Li Yu

Li Yu (李煜) was the final ruler of the Southern Tang state whose greatest contribution was his introduction of the two-stanza form to Chinese poetry. And having his works reproduced in song by one of the most popular Asian singers...

I Ching Watermelons Driven 4,500KM to Help Locked-Down Nanjingers

Nanjing was earlier this week gifted four enormous truck loads of epidemic-relief supplies which had made a remarkable journey from distant Xinjiang. And it was all thanks to an initiative to support the region dating from more than a...

Revamping the Olympic Medal Table; Could China be Number 1?

With the 2020 Olympics finally behind us, some are wondering as to the fairness of the medal table. After all, the USA is almost always top of the heap. But what if that were recalculated a little, perhaps accounting...

Fired! Airport Chairman & 4 Others Disciplined for COVID Failure

Heads are rolling in Nanjing to hold accountable those responsible for the COVID outbreak that is China’s worst since Wuhan. Among them, the airport’s chairman, general manager, head of epidemic prevention and directors of emergency rescue and ground services. Last...

7-Year-Old Nanjing Girl Thanks NAT Nurses in Viral Video Dance

Cute and surreal at the same. Yet if 2020 hadn’t happened, we would probably find this tale too incredulous to be real, too downright bizarre to be true. A 7-year-old girl, standing before HAZMAT-clad nurses, dancing. Had lunacy gripped Nanjing? Were the nurses there...

ZERO New Cases, but How Do We Keep it that Way? With a Tank!

With COVID now all but dead in Nanjing, we need be sure it does not once again return. And lend a hand to other areas in China now battling their own outbreak. Time for caterpillar tracks to come the...

Nanjing COVID Outbreak Update; Friday 6 August

Closing the week, it’s time to join hands and consolidate with our comrades in Wuhan. For we are the COVID capitals of China. While we now understand a little of your previous pain, we also have much in common...

Nanjing COVID Outbreak Update; Thursday 5 August

"Six o’clock already, I was just in the middle of a dream. … It’s just another manic NAT day." That’s the deal for many in Nanjing today, while elsewhere in the city, it’s parole day for a select few...

About Me

Editor-in-Chief of The Nanjinger, Frank Hossack, is a multi-award winning Radio/TV host who has worked in China for the past 30 years. Frank has also written for Time magazine 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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