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Frank Hossack

Little Emperors Don Hats as Little Confucius

Hundreds of Nanjing school children were this week given a treat that was cunningly disguised as an encouraging way to remember Confucian values; they got to play dress up! A total of 168 children from the...

Founding

Nanjing Expat was founded in 2009 by Richard Anderton (Australia), Joshua Maddox (USA) and Ronald Paredes (Venezuela), as a not for profit community resource that can help local charities and remain positive and informative. While the...

Survey Finds Nanjing Confident but Nation More Pessimistic

Leaders from many of Nanjing’s top foreign corporations turned out in force at the InterContinental Hotel Monday to receive the European Chamber’s European Business in China Business Confidence Survey 2016, and to hear analysis of the results as to...

LifeCycle Email Newsletter

LifeCycle is the weekly email newsletter for expats in Nanjing. Therein find the expat take on local news, incredulous stories (as only China can do), our inane editorial and highlights from our City Guide including useful service providers, doctors, dentists,...

Trillion RMB Economy in Sight as Nanjing PM2.5 Drops by 23%

Data newly released by the Nanjing government has shone a light on progress made across a range of fields during 2015. From foreign investment to environmental standards, the long overdue information is a welcome addition to the toolkit of...

Introducing Your New Best Friend; Baopals

The trouble with being self taught in Chinese is there tend to be gaps (read “gaping holes that could swallow a star”) in the vernacular. In my case, one of them is reading comprehension, meaning, despite...

Cars & Credit; 15 Years on from WTO

Look outside. Count the number of foreign badges you see on cars versus those of Chinese auto manufacturers. Don’t be embarrassed that you are not sure about some of them. Even discounting this “unknown” category, the foreign dominance of...

Qinhuai Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital

Traditional therapies such as acupuncture and massage can be used to help with a range of afflictions, including Acute Gastritis / Cardiovascular / Diabetes / High Blood Pressure / Stroke / Duodenal Ulcer / Cerebral Palsy / Epilepsy /...

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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