Frank Hossack

How do you start your day? Congee? Baozi? Bacon and egg? Instant coffee? Fruit? Moldy bread? Not if you were headed to yesterday’s power breakfast with Nanjing’s Mayor. Therein, radish featured prominently, but the root’s connotations are not altogether...

There has been much comment on the clear skies this year in Nanjing, with good reason. Data just released shows that 2020’s average daily level of PM2.5 is as low as 37.7 micrograms per cubic metre (µg/m3), making Nanjing...

Tomorrow, 16 May, sees two fun runs take place at Yangshan Park in Qixia District’s Xianlin area, which the organiser hopes can be a reason for the local foreign community to come back together again, amid the recovery of...

Colossal infrastructure construction taking place in the southwest of Nanjing is a step nearer to finally being complete, as a giant tunnel boring machine broke through yesterday; one of the major sections of the Nanjing Number 5 Bridge that...

Foreign visitors will one day once again come to China to take in the country’s many splendid tourists attractions. That day is still some way off but this has not stopped local tourism authorities launching a contest to put...

Theatre, art and drama have moved online worldwide, and Nanjing is no exception. Graduating students at Nanjing International School (NIS) have put their Visual Arts Exhibition online to satisfy curriculum requirements, finding a whole new audience in the process. 戏剧、艺术和戏剧已经在全球范围内转移到网上，南京也不例外。南京国际学校（NIS）的毕业生将他们的视觉艺术展放在网上以满足课程要求，并在此过程中找到了全新的观众。 As...

Cao Xueqin (曹雪芹) was a free-spirited individual with a fondness for the bottle. But he was also a visionary with a keen eye for the human condition, largely the result of his family’s fall from grace in the eyes...

Heavy rains came to Nanjing this afternoon, marking the start of the region’s annual flood season. Prudently, city authorities have been preparing for the inevitable by conducting a series of flood-fighting and emergency-rescue drills, while citizens shall do well...