Frank Hossack

Citizen Couplets Adorn City Gates for Incoming Chinese New Year

With Spring Festival now 2 weeks away, may the celebrations begin! And what better way than by once again hanging giant couplets celebrating the incoming new Chinese year, penned by Nanjing’s citizens, from our great city’s gates. This year’s “Spring...

How to Open 9 Metro Lines in a Single Day? (With a Bit of Luck)

When Nanjing’s newest metro line commenced operations last month, little did most know that similar openings were occurring at the exact same moment all over China. But how can so many such large undertakings be synchronised across the country? 当南京最新的地铁线路上个月开始运营时,大多数人都不知道中国各地也在同一时间开通了类似的地铁线路。但这么多如此大的事业如何在全国范围内同步进行? It...

Scandal of Free Entry for Women at Nanjing Wildlife Attraction

There have been shouts of, Sexism”, on the local Chinese internet of late, after a Nanjing wildlife park launched a promotion that comprised free entry for women, an incident which is highlighting a range of gender-discriminatory practices in China. Jinniu...

China Railway Ticket APP Launches English Language Version BUT

Good news for foreigners living in China with limited Chinese abilities; the China Railway ticket APP now recognises a smart phone’s language setting and redirects to the English version accordingly. But, and it’s a big but… 对于生活在中国但汉语能力有限的外国人来说是个好消息;中国火车票APP现在可以识别智能手机的语言设置并相应地重定向到英文版本。但是,这是一个很大的但是…… The update to the...

Pakistani NUAA Alumni Becomes One of World’s Top Scientists

Students at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics have reason to be pretty excited at their future prospects. And that’s because one of their former classmates has been placed near the top of a list of the world’s top...

Bowel Disease Link to Microplastics Found by Nanjing Medical Uni

They are tiny pieces of plastic less than 5 mm in length. Known as microplastics, they are inadvertently consumed by humans, but until now, the health consequences were largely unknown. That recently changed with the findings of a study...

Easy Security at Nanjing’s Lukou Airport Cuts Wait Times in Half

What’s the worst thing about flying? The security check. But now, our own Lukou is among the airports in China to have rolled out a new initiative for passengers to bypass those long queues altogether and head straight for...

Swastika Clad Man Told to Remove Clothes at Nanjing Xuanwu Lake

Young people in Nanjing are being called upon to consider general public values while showing their personality after an incident in which a man wearing Japanese anime clothing including a swastika was challenged in the city’s Xuanwu Lake Scenic...

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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