Frank Hossack

Wuxi Launches Dynamic Bus Service; Hail one in 3-5 Minutes!

Some 11 dynamic buses in Wuxi are currently operating on a 12-square-kilometre area each in Jingkai and Huishan districts; 7,000 registered users and ¥3 for a ride. Full story (in Chinese) via this link; read the absolute essentials about...

Aid to Xinjiang by Yangzhou Doctors Realises Hospital Laboratory

Talent training, diagnosis and treatment technology, scientific research and teaching are the key aims of the new National Key Laboratory in Xinjiang's Ili Prefecture. Full story (in Chinese) via this link; read the absolute essentials about Yangzhou via this link. 人才培训、诊疗技术、科研教学是新疆伊犁县新国家重点实验室的重点目标。...

Renovated Peacock Makes its Reappearance in Nanjing’s Gulou Square

Nearly 40 days of work went in to fixing up the iconic peacock topiary; 9-metres high, 38.13-metres long and 12.06-metres wide, its first maintenance in 7 years. Full story (in Chinese) via this link; read about Nanjing introduced as...

Driverless Bus! Test Drive Shows How to Save the World in Wuxi

Cynics would have you that autonomous vehicles would never work in China; its roads too lawless, their users too reckless or malicious. Likewise for the enormous environmental but futile challenge confronting the planet; that shutting down the internal-combustion engine...

The Building of Nanjing (21); Jiangsu Grand Theatre

Swan Lake, Macbeth, Tosca, Don Quixote and Cats are among the globally renowned productions to have been staged in the Jiangsu Grand Theatre, known formally as the Jiangsu Centre for the Performing Arts. 《天鹅湖》、《麦克白》、《托斯卡》、《堂吉诃德》和《猫》是江苏大剧院(正式名称为江苏表演艺术中心)上演的全球知名作品之一。 And those well known productions have been...

In Conversation with He who Walked Length of Yangtze… Ash Dykes

The extreme Adventurer & three Time World Record Holder who walked breadth of Mongolia; entire length of Madagascar, summiting its eight highest mountains; & the whole 6,363 KM of our Yangtze River, on almost giving up 5 days into...

Europe Meets Middle East in Nanjing’s All New 1912; Orgasmic!

Somewhat contrary to the very nature of this part of this humble publication, we’re not here for the food. For at Foodgasm, that speaks for itself. But we would need our heads examined if we were not to indulge. Let’s...

Gone Crazy for Sausages as Local Couple Sell a Half Tonne a Day

Something’s up with the meat in Zhenjiang. It’s selling fast. In this economic climate. Equally strange is the fact that local government is getting the thumbs up. What the heck is going on in Zhenjiang? In a word, sausages. 镇江的肉出了问题。它卖得很快。在这样的经济大环境下。同样奇怪的是,地方政府却对此表示赞赏。镇江到底怎么了?一句话,香肠。 On...

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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