Frank Hossack

R.I.P. Travel Code: 5 March 2020 – 13 December 2022

Got any screenshots of your travel code on your phone? Keep ‘em. That’s because our green-arrowed, once-perpetual friend is no more, in the latest development that is at present an almost-daily step toward life as normal in the Middle...

Nanjing Massacre@85; City Stops to Remember the 300,000 Fallen

Services commemorating the 85th anniversary of the Nanjing Massacre have once again been held across our city, on this, 13 December. While much of the attention fell on the Nanjing Massacre Memorial, people all over Nanjing have been paying...

Say Hi to the 10 Most Beautiful Fitness Trails in Nanjing!

With fitness never before more popular, so it is only natural that more people also want to work out in beautiful surroundings. Turns out we’re in luck in that department, as the 10 most beautiful fitness trails in Nanjing...

Boeing & Airbus be Afraid? Not Likely as First C919 Delivered

Today is a big day for China in terms of aviation. For finally the time has come to deliver the nation’s first domestically-produced passenger airliner to its launch customer. But is this indicative of the sun setting on the...

How’s this for a Train?! And a Way to See the Pandas!

There can’t be many of us living in China who have not, at one point or another, fancied going to see pandas in Sichuan, in their natural environment, in the wild. And so it comes to be, with a...

Nanjing Prepares for 85th Anniversary of Massacre

This is the time of year when Nanjing readies itself for the darkest day on the city’s calendar. As every year, all of us will be affected to some degree, others more so, especially those living near to, or...

3 Years after Wuhan; No COVID Test Needed for Nanjing Metro

Chinese people have a saying; “Pandemics Take 3 Years” (大疫三年). Well, yesterday, 5 December, marked 3 years to the day since the very first case of COVID in the world was discovered in Wuhan, catapulting the city into the...

Ready to Open up? China Southern “Talks” One World Membership

There are again encouraging signs emerging that China is preparing to reopen its borders to the outside world, as the country’s biggest airline is reportedly in negotiations at this time to join one of the world’s major airline alliances. When...

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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