Frank Hossack

Diplomacy Talks

On this Day in Chinese History; 24 September

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This day, 24 September, in 1982, Deng Xiaoping met with British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, and comprehensively elaborated on the Chinese government’s basic position on Hong Kong. Deng pointed out that China has no room for maneuver on the...
About Guangdong

Chaozhou; the City that Ordered Its Crocodiles into Exile

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Han Yu ordered a pig and a goat thrown into a crocodile-infested river in 819 AD, then read aloud a formal proclamation ordering the crocodiles to leave Chaozhou within seven days or face death by poisoned arrow. 公元八一九年,韩愈下令将一猪一羊投入一条鳄患严重的江中,随即当众宣读一篇祭文,勒令鳄鱼七日之内离开潮州,否则将以毒箭剿灭。 Han had arrived...
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Nanchang; The Army that Now Rules a Nation Was Born from a Three-Day Defeat

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China's People's Liberation Army, now the world's largest standing military force with more than two million personnel, traces its founding to an uprising that held Nanchang, its own capital city, for barely three days before being driven out. 中国人民解放军,如今是世界上现役规模最大的常备军事力量,兵力超过二百万人;而它的建军之日,却可追溯至一场仅仅守住南昌这座自己的核心城市三天,便被击退的武装起义。 At 2am...
About Guangdong

Jieyang; Where Two Mutually Unintelligible Languages Share One City

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Two mutually unintelligible languages divide Jieyang's own residents, Chaoshan Min in the plains and Hakka in the hills, both officially counted simply as dialects of Chinese, despite having no more in common with each other than either has with...
About Guangdong

Yunfu; the Ancestral Homeland Where Descendants Are Now the Minority

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Zhuang and Yao ancestors, part of the ancient Baiyue peoples, once populated the entire territory that is now Yunfu, long before Han settlers arrived here in force; today, ethnic minorities make up barely 14,000 of the city's nearly 2.4...
About Guangdong

Guangzhou; the City that Was, by Law, China’s Only Window to the World

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The Qianlong Emperor decreed in 1757 that all Western maritime trade with China would be conducted through a single port, Canton, now Guangzhou; for the next 85 years, one city was, by imperial law, the entirety of China's legal...
About Jiangxi

Jingdezhen; The Rare Chinese City Named after an Emperor’s Reigning Era

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Emperor Zhenzong of the Song dynasty was so impressed by the local porcelain in 1004 that he ordered the town, then called Changnan, renamed after his own reigning era, Jingde, an honour historians describe as rare among Chinese cities. 宋代真宗皇帝于公元一零零四年,因十分赞赏当地所产瓷器,下令将这座原名"昌南"的小镇,以自己的年号"景德"重新命名;史学界认为,这样的殊荣,在中国城市之中实属罕见。 Porcelain...
About Jiangxi

Pingxiang; The Strike That History Rewrote

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Seventeen thousand miners and railway workers walked off the job in Anyuan, on the edge of Pingxiang, at two in the morning on 14 September 1922, in a strike organised by Mao Zedong, Liu Shaoqi and Li Lisan that...
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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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