Frank Hossack

New High-Speed Train Options for Dragon Boat Holiday Travel

China’s northern capital may be all but shutting down, but here in south, railways across the Yangtze River Delta are preparing for a bumper Dragon Boat Festival travel period that also serves as a lifeline for the beleaguered tourism...

Imported Seafood Banned in Nanjing; City Tracks Rogue Beijingers

With Beijing under a partial lockdown, Nanjing is trying to keep its Covid-19 fatality record blemish free by taking imported seafood off the market and tracking down travellers who arrived from Beijing since 31 May. Huge numbers of people travel...

Public Health Emergency Notices Issued; Nanjing Stay Alert

Just as Beijing is seeing increased numbers of Covid cases, so our own local authorities on a provincial level have issued emergency notices for epidemic prevention in a number of cities across Jiangsu, serving as a reminder for the...

Summer Solstice to be Marked by Ring of Fire Solar Eclipse

The longest day of 2020 shall be marked across much of Asia by an annular solar eclipse. The “Ring of Fire” that is the result shall darken our afternoon skies on Sunday 21 June, making for an exciting end...

No You Can’t, Yes You Can; Nanjing Night Markets’ Good Example

They used to be a frowned-upon blot on the urban landscape. Now, China has done a complete 180 on her attitude to night markets. With its talent for organisation, Nanjing is heading a post-Covid-19 economic revival that has night...

Kàn You Make it for Coffee in Hexi? Kàn Do!

A recently-opened little bright spot of internationalism has appeared off one of Nanjing’s more traditional thoroughfares, Qingliangmen Da Jie, in the city’s western Hexi area. Kàn Coffee's menu sports the usual selection of coffee, plus a hitherto unheard of option....

Silver Screen’s Champ of Gender Equality & Communism; Wang Ping

Wang Ping (王苹) was PRC’s first female film director and an ambassador for the communist movement’s empowering of gender equality, utilising film as a propaganda art form that would see Wang reach her zenith with 1965’s “The East is...

Taking on the Taklamakan

The word “Taklamakan” is said to mean “Place of No Return”. That China is now embarking on the final section of a railway line that will encircle the entire desert, by 2022 it will be possible to turn that...

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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