Frank Hossack

Welcome Aboard Starship Bubble Hotel!

Nanjing’s winter might be mercifully short, but it still feels like a long, cold, dark stretch. With the usual entertainment options becoming more of a drag than a please at this time of year, perhaps a night in the...

Nanjing’s Cleanest Air for BSN Students from January

Nanjing has been blessed this year with improved standards of air quality, particularly a glorious summer, but with another winter well and truly upon us, as air pollution levels soar, many have been reaching for their face masks. No...

Pork on Alert; African Swine Fever Meets Year of the Pig

Human beings may not be at risk from the possibility of African Swine Fever (ASF) going global, but the pig economy and associated value chains may well find the year of the pig in 2019 to be more of...

Flight Attendants; Purses to Automatic & Shop Check

A Chinese-UK couple, who met in university, have succeeded in their dream of building a Boeing 737 flight simulator here in Nanjing. Now they just have to sell it to the Chinese airlines. At least it’s cheap, sort of. For...

Nanjing Hot Pot; Where the In Crowd is at

My own particular love affair with hot pot dates back to the very home of the dish; Sichuan province, and its capital, Chengdu, on my second trip to China in 1993. Few hot pot restaurants today serve up that which...

A Celebration for the Single & Married Alike

Super skeptics label it as a form of commercialism on steroids that has lost all hint of its true roots in contemporary Chinese culture. Inescapable for the month leading up to the celebration itself, the airwaves and Internet saturated...

Difference between Scottish Bank Notes & Chinese Calligraphy?

When the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) recently held the launch party for its new £20 note, one of the designers responsible who should have been in attendance felt her time would be better spent giving a talk on...

Design New Look for Air Force Base Runway and Win ¥100,000

Prize money totaling of ¥320,000 is up for grabs in a new competition to design a new look for a former Ming Dynasty battalion training ground that was until more recently a Chinese air force base here in Nanjing. Anyone...

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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