Frank Hossack

On this Day in Chinese History; 14 January

This day, 14 January, in 1998, at the National Financial Work Conference, Vice Premier Zhu Rongji stated the Chinese government would provide selfless assistance to countries most affected by the Asian financial crisis with an attitude of sympathy and...

On this Day in Chinese History; 13 January

This day, 13 January, in 1993, the UN Secretary-General had the Chemical Weapons Convention opened for signature. Therein, an unprecedented show of support saw 130 countries sign the Convention during a 3-day conference in Paris. Then Foreign Minister Qian...

On this Day in Chinese History; 12 January

This day, 12 January, in 1959, Chairman Mao Zedong pointed out when meeting Brazilian guests that Asia, Africa and Latin America are the main forces in the world. The global population was then 2.7 billion, with 2.3 billion people...

On this Day in Chinese History; 11 January

This day, 11 January, 1964, Premier Zhou Enlai visited Ghana, where there had been an assassination attempt on President Kwame Nkrumaha. Regardless of the danger, Zhou resolutely decided to continue the visit, suggesting a break in the rules of...

On this Day in Chinese History; 10 January

This day, 10 January, in 1997, China vetoed a United Nations’ Security Council plan to send 155 United Nations military observers to monitor the Guatemala peace accords, its representative to the UN arguing the proposal undermined China’s sovereignty and...

On this Day in Chinese History; 9 January

This day, 9 January, 1965, Chairman Mao Zedong met with the American writer Edgar Snow, an old friend of China, and had a discussion on the world’s main contradictions, the Vietnam War, nuclear proliferation and the restoration of China’s...

On this Day in Chinese History; 8 January

This day, 8 January, in 1938, Canadian doctor Norman Bethune led a medical team from Vancouver to China to support Chinese people in the Second Sino-Japanese War. He actively treated both soldiers and civilians to later die in the...

On this Day in Chinese History; 7 January

This day, 7 January, 1978, when Deng Xiaoping met with a delegation of members of the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate, he clearly proposed the possibility of China’s “two-handed” solution to the Taiwan issue, striving to use...

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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