Frank Hossack

Nanjing COVID Outbreak Update; Thursday 24 March, 2022

Judging by the online reaction to today’s news, it was the moment many thousands of people in Nanjing had been waiting for. Back to school! Now it is only a matter of time for everyone else. One young man...

Man Gives His Own Life Saving Wife in Nanjing House Fire

A heroic, 10-day battle for life in Nanjing has ended tragically, with the news that the man who had saved his wife from the flames of a fire in their apartment has died of his burns in a local...

Nanjing COVID Outbreak Update; Tuesday 22 March, 2022

Serious. That’s the only word we have for the approach being hammered out by local authorities in their drive to nip Nanjing’s current COVID outbreak in the bud. For those living in Jiangning District especially, it’s like turning the...

Nanjing COVID Outbreak Update; Monday 21 March, 2022

While it’s undoubtedly a relief to many a shop and restaurant owner that they haven’t been closed down, the question on the lips of others is understandably, why? As it turns out, that’s related to both national policy and...

Nanjing COVID Outbreak Update; Friday 18 March, 2022

It’s a thing; “quarantine trash”. No, that’s not unsavory people locked in hotel rooms; it’s the rubbish emerging from the homes of those undergoing home isolation. As to the good news, today’s numbers reveal hope, while the nightmare of...

Nanjing COVID Outbreak Update; Thursday 17 March, 2022

Still no sign of a let up. More positive cases (and lots of them) of COVID in Nanjing translates to more tests in more places, more closures and more medium-risk areas, as Nanjing continues to face its biggest epidemic...

Nanjing COVID Outbreak Update; Wednesday 16 March, 2022

Jiangning is not in lockdown, but it might as well be. The District found 23 positive cases of COVID yesterday, while Qinhuai District reported one more this morning. It may be 200 short of the total of 235 cases...

The Building of Nanjing (4); Jinling Library

“What on Earth is that?”, is the question to most commonly escape a person’s mouth upon first glimpse of the Jinling Library. “那到底是什么?”,是人们第一次看到金陵图书馆时最常想出口而出的问题。 For good reason; if Nanjing has any structure more befitting of a place on another world (and there...

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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