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Frank Hossack

Thou Shalt Have Standards; it’s 鸭血粉丝汤 Duck Blood Soup after all!

Market supervision authorities in Nanjing recently held an expert seminar with a difference. They sought to nail down standards that would protect the product quality, flavour and reputation of arguably the city’s greatest contribution to Chinese cuisine. Nanjingers are nuts...

Fight Against Illegal Drugs Taken to Middle School in Nanjing

Teenagers are susceptible to influence, especially anything illegal, and drugs always hold a special interest. With new psychoactive substances popping up in China at a dizzying rate, Nanjing Police recently took its anti-drug effort into a local middle school. On...

Undersea Forest Exhibition 海底森林特展 Opens to Public, with Mermaids

Summer options for things to do have a new addition to the list, in the form of the Undersea Forest Exhibition which opened this past weekend at Nanjing Underwater World. And star of the show is an underwater version of...

Tibetan Baby Girl Gets Successful Cleft Lip Surgery in Nanjing

Sometimes it’s just nice to close the week with an old fashioned feel-good story. This week in Nanjing, a Tibetan baby with a congenital cleft lip and palate was discharged from hospital after the first operation to correct the...

New HST Debuts Tomorrow; USB Charging in Every Seat & Much More

This year’s summer-holiday travels are off to a great start, with two new additions to the high-speed train family from tomorrow. Sleeker than ever, they’re packed with high-tech features intended to make our train time safer and more comfortable,...

Oh Deer Me! What on Earth Happened to You?

Have a close look at this beast. Notice anything out of the ordinary? Its antlers are facing backwards. Part deer, part horse, part cow, part donkey; say hello to the “Milu” (麋鹿), or “Père David's Deer”. Outside of China, it was the...

A Life of Public Service for Women; Pauline Woo Tsui

Pauline Woo Tsui was at her core an anti-discrimination activist who sought to correct the wrongs brought on the female sex in many theaters, from the USA to China. Born in Nanjing on 2 October, 1920, Woo’s father in fact...

Depressed Nanjing Student 信小呆 Wins ¥100 Million, Makes Comeback

With 600 followers on Weibo, she was just another ordinary student in Nanjing. Then her life changed overnight when she won ¥100 million in a promotion that would bring her 1.14 million followers and within a few years, endless...

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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