Frank Hossack

World’s Smallest Smart Thermometer in Use in Nanjing Quarantines

A number of residential communities in Nanjing have adopted the use of the world’s smallest smart thermometer to help monitor those self isolating at home. With health authorities instantly in the know when a subject’s temperature changes, the technology...

You Must Spend Money! If You Want a 2.5 Day Weekend, that is

Nanjing is joining with other places in China in promoting recovery of the consumer market by encouraging employers to offer staff a longer weekend. However, critics of the idea are skeptical as to how the populace may be coerced...

Nucleic Acid Testing for Everyone Returning from Wuhan to Nanjing

Continued epidemic prevention efforts in Nanjing now include mandatory Nucleic Acid Testing (NAT) of all returnees to Nanjing from Hubei Province. The moves comes as China has created accelerated NAT for COVID-19 that can confirm cases in 45 minutes. Continued...

Dog Slaughtered by Nanjing Man but Canine off the Menu

Just as Chinese authorities have been declaring that dog is now off the menu, a Nanjing man has been caught on video brutally murdering a neighbour’s canine companion. Last Wednesday, 8 April, China’s Ministry of Agricultural and Rural Affairs released...

A Shop’s Worst Nightmare; Post-Epidemic Retail Down 50 Percent

If the measure of a city’s economic activity be the sales of women’s shoes, then Nanjing is now performing at 50 percent of its previous retail level, showing that despite numerous incentives lavished upon the populace, much fewer numbers...

Top Cuts in Jiangning; Top Scissors!

We’re willing to bet you need a haircut, like bad. And we’re also willing to bet that you’d prefer to avoid a crowded hairdresser where every customer, more or less, needs to take their mask off. Hence the timing for...

The 5th Century’s Human Computer; Zu Chongzhi

Zu Chongzhi (祖冲之) had a thing for circles. In fact, he knew his way around an ellipse better possibly than gravity itself. 祖冲之(祖冲之)对圈子情有好。 事实上,他可能比重力本身更了解椭圆。 Such was the extent of Zu’s influence, this Great Nanjinger had parks, roads and schools named after...

Yunnan; Tie Dye’s Blue & White Spiritual Home

If there was one word to describe Yunnan, likely that word would be “spiritual”. And if there were roads to Heaven, they would look like the tarmac strips that ascend the skies over this gem of southwest China. 如果用一个词来形容云南,那很可能是“精神”。 如果有通往天堂的道路,它们将看起来像中国西南部这颗宝石上空的柏油路。 This...

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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Shanghai Climate Week coincides with Earth Day and highlights China's dual-carbon commitments. And while its object as also a...

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Nanjing’s International Flights; All Change for Summer Schedule

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