Frank Hossack

About Shandong

Dongying; Fresh Ground, Old Oil and the Delta Still Rising

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Fresh mud, oil rigs and a river that never quite sits still give Dongying its shape. This is a city where land is still being made, birds keep returning and the petroleum story is still loud enough to matter,...
About Shandong

Yantai; Ports, Wine and a Never Inward Looking Coastline

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Few Chinese coastal cities have as many identities packed into one frame as Yantai. It is a port, a wine city, a summer resort and a place where modern China’s seaside opening can still be read in the old...
About Shandong

Weifang; Keeping its Bearings with Kites and Workshops

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Weifang sits in central Shandong with a plainspoken confidence. It is a city of kites, woodcuts, engines and markets; a place that has learned to turn craft into identity and industry into habit without making too much noise about...
About Shandong

Jining; Confucius and Canals in the City that Learned to Carry Weight

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Jining is one of those Shandong cities that does not shout first and explain later. It has weight because of what it contains: Confucius and Mencius country, canal heritage, lake country and a commercial city that has spent centuries...
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On this Day in Chinese History; 12 July

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This day, 12 July, in 1937, Zhang Hanhui, an early underground member of the Communist Party of China, composed “Along the Songhua River” in Xi’an. Zhang wrote both the lyrics and music for the song that depicted life for...
About Shandong

Tai’an; Where Mount Tai Watches over a City of Pilgrims and Platforms

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Tai’an lives in the shadow of a mountain that is never really a shadow. Mount Tai dominates the skyline, the history books and the local imagination; the city below has spent centuries learning how to stand beside it rather...
Yangtze River Delta

Shanghai; Venice of the East or Whore of the Orient?

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Few cities carry so many arguments in their skin. Shanghai is one of them. It has been a river city, a port city, a treaty-port city, a revolution city and a money city; at different times, outsiders have praised...
About Shandong

Weihai; Coastline, Liu Gong Island and a City That Faces Outward

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Set on Shandong’s eastern tip, Weihai is a city that faces the sea more than it turns inland. It looks across water towards the Korean Peninsula, lives with a long coast and carries a history that is maritime, military...
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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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