Frank Hossack

Perspectives in Translation; Word Wars or Incendiary Language?

“Before examining the splinter in my eye, try removing the rafter from your own”. Matthew 7:5 “在检查我眼中的碎片之前,试着从你自己的椽子上取下筏子。” 马太福音7:5 As conduit to Jesus’ words, the great apostle, Matthew (although yes, he probably didn’t write the words himself), had a point. But before...

Death of Nanjing Youth Olympics’ Gold Medal Winner

The world of athletics is mourning the passing of a bright, future star in Gilbert Kwemoi, who collapsed at his home in Kenya on Friday 13 August and was pronounced dead later in hospital. Kwemoi had won gold in...

A Ruler More Obsessed by Poetry than Politics; Li Yu

Li Yu (李煜) was the final ruler of the Southern Tang state whose greatest contribution was his introduction of the two-stanza form to Chinese poetry. And having his works reproduced in song by one of the most popular Asian singers...

I Ching Watermelons Driven 4,500KM to Help Locked-Down Nanjingers

Nanjing was earlier this week gifted four enormous truck loads of epidemic-relief supplies which had made a remarkable journey from distant Xinjiang. And it was all thanks to an initiative to support the region dating from more than a...

Revamping the Olympic Medal Table; Could China be Number 1?

With the 2020 Olympics finally behind us, some are wondering as to the fairness of the medal table. After all, the USA is almost always top of the heap. But what if that were recalculated a little, perhaps accounting...

Fired! Airport Chairman & 4 Others Disciplined for COVID Failure

Heads are rolling in Nanjing to hold accountable those responsible for the COVID outbreak that is China’s worst since Wuhan. Among them, the airport’s chairman, general manager, head of epidemic prevention and directors of emergency rescue and ground services. Last...

7-Year-Old Nanjing Girl Thanks NAT Nurses in Viral Video Dance

Cute and surreal at the same. Yet if 2020 hadn’t happened, we would probably find this tale too incredulous to be real, too downright bizarre to be true. A 7-year-old girl, standing before HAZMAT-clad nurses, dancing. Had lunacy gripped Nanjing? Were the nurses there...

ZERO New Cases, but How Do We Keep it that Way? With a Tank!

With COVID now all but dead in Nanjing, we need be sure it does not once again return. And lend a hand to other areas in China now battling their own outbreak. Time for caterpillar tracks to come the...

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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