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Frank Hossack

It’s a Record! BSN Summer Fair Biggest Ever

The title of “Nanjing’s Most Popular Expat Event” was seized Saturday by The British School of Nanjing (BSN), when staggering numbers of people turned out for the school’s annual summer fair, on a perfect, pollution-free, spring day, that also...

The Invincible Jade, An Englishman in Suzhou

By now, there must have been thousands of books written by foreigners in China about China, and the huge majority are mediocre at best. Two of the exceptions to this are Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporters Nicolas Kristof...

Music for the Masses; A Sense of Magnificence

2019 is a big year for anniversaries in China, not least the birth of the Chinese nation itself 70 years ago. Completely unpublicised, however, is the fact that it is also 30 years since the New York Times ran...

China Crayfish Festival; Nod to Origins in Nanjing

Nanjing is hotting up, diners are flocking outside, the makeshift tables have been set up and the cases of beer have been chilled. The crayfish bonanza has begun. Yet, that which is now virtually a national obsession in fact...

I’m Still Standing; Few Nanjing CD Shops Survive Online Assault

China is a fickle thing when it comes to technology; embracing the latest thing today and dumping it for something else tomorrow. So it is therefore coming to pass that the CD is now virtually all but a memory. What...

12,000 Run in Nanjing Xianlin Half Marathon; Kenya Triumphant

8 am yesterday, Sunday, 14 April, saw the starting gun fired for the Nanjing Bank of Ningbo Xianlin Half Marathon in Yangshan Park. An impressive 12,000 runners turned out to take part in the event which attracted people from...

Fancy a Volcanic Honeymoon? Fly Nanjing-Jeju Direct from 1 May

The Koreans call it “Honeymoon Island”, yet the idyllic, paradise-like escape is dominated by South Korea’s highest mountain, a massive extinct volcano in the very centre of the island. At present, anyone wishing to fly from Nanjing to Jeju Island...

Nanjing Metro Fares to Go Up by 50-100 Percent

Well, not quite, but near enough. In its 13 and a half years of operation, prices for riding the Nanjing Metro have remained unchanged, making the daily commute, for many, more and more of a bargain. From 31 March, 2019,...

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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