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Frank Hossack

Sizzling Sicily on the Grill @ Jinling Hotel

It would be fair to say there exists a fair number of expats in Nanjing who have not set foot in the Jinling Hotel, much less the Pacific Grill restaurant therein. While The Nanjinger is not in the business of...

Puerto Galera; off the Philippines’ Beaten Paths

The crowds may flock to Cebu, but amid this tropical yet contradictory Asian paradise that comprises over 7,000 islands, much more is to be had off the Philippines’ beaten paths. For The Nanjinger, the more ramshackle the shanty town,...

Rugs, Sofas & Cocoa; the $€£¥Business of Cosy in China

If there was ever a way to make a concrete shell of a home cosy, nothing could be easier than to hang up a curtain, throw down a rug, turn off the strip lighting, strike a match to a...

Drifting in the Snow; A New Nanjing Pastime

China's obsession with The Fast and The Furious movies may have helped the automobile industry, however it is the fast pace and cool tricks of the drivers that has the Chinese racing. Drifting, to be precise. At Nanjing’s Zhongshan Scenic...

Gold! Always Believe in Your Soul; You’re Indestructible

But once a year, the heavyweights in the Jiangsu world of arts and crafts gather for a smorgasboard of backslapping and celebration of what is, after all, an oft-ignored corner of culture. Taking place in the weeks prior to...

Maglev China on Track to Win 600 Kmh “Pace Race”

Technical proposals for an magnetically levitated train (maglev), passed by an expert review board in Qingdao in the past few days, have given China the go ahead to fast track its ambitions of realising the world’s first long-distance, ultra...

Tattooed Entertainers to be Banned from TV Appearances

19 January, 2018, and at the regular press briefing by the State Administration for Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television of the People’s Republic of China (SAPPRFT), Director of the Publicity Department, Gao Changli, called on radio and television...

Chess Brings International Culture to All at Jinling Library

There are few things that unite the peoples of the world as much as the game of chess. In all its forms, whether it be Xiangqi and its Japanese, Korean or Indian counterparts, or the more widespread international chess,...

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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