Frank Hossack

Post-90s Boy Donates Stem Cells to Save Complete Stranger

Stem-cell donation is not to be taken lightly. It is therefore noteworthy and highly commendable that a young man in our very own Jiangsu Province successfully donated stem cells for a positive match with a patient he had never...

China’s Unwritten Rules & The Population Time Bomb

News of China’s rapidly-aging population will not have escaped The Nanjinger’s alert readers. That’s right folks, people aren’t making enough babies. 《南京人》的警惕读者不会错过中国人口迅速老龄化的消息。 没错,伙计们,人们没有生足够的孩子。 The problem of course, is the herd effect. And given China is an aspirational society driven by the...

Which Lines on the Nanjing Metro Carry the Most and Least Passengers?

When forced to stand on a packed Nanjing Metro, have you ever wondered as to how many people are having the same experience? Which line on our city’s metro system is the busiest? And which was perhaps not worth...

From B2B to B2C; True Innovation Made in (Nanjing) China

Innovation. That’s a word which in Nanjing is bantered around like baozi. But slapping the label “innovative” on something doesn’t make it so. 创新。这个词在南京就像包子一样被人们戏谑。但给某件事贴上“创新”的标签并不意味着它就是这样。 To find the genuine article, The Nanjinger first asks the question, what does Africa’s number 1 music...

China’s Principal Islamic Figurehead; Muhammad Ali Yu Zhengui

Muhammad Ali Yu Zhengui (余振贵) was a former Member of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and Former Vice President and Secretary General of the China Islamic Association. 余振贵是全国人民代表大会常务委员会前委员,中国伊斯兰协会前副主席兼秘书长。 Born in Nanjing in February, 1946, of Hui ethnicity, Yu...

The Building of Nanjing (10); Nanjing Railway Station

At 01:10 on 12 November, 1999, a fire broke out in the waiting room of Nanjing Railway Station. Later it would be discovered the cause was the aging of internal wiring. The fire quickly spread to the entire facility,...

More International Flights are Back! Nanjing Rejoins the World

Events of the last few days have been enough to make us wonder if we are ever going to escape. Yet, more light is at the end of the tunnel. For now is the time for a host of...

30 Years of Excellence Celebrated at Nanjing International School

Starting as the dream of foreign parents wishing their children receive an international education in Nanjing, just a handful of students were initially taught in rented classrooms at what was to become Nanjing International School, now a leading school...

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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