Frank Hossack

Drifting in the Snow; A New Nanjing Pastime

China's obsession with The Fast and The Furious movies may have helped the automobile industry, however it is the fast pace and cool tricks of the drivers that has the Chinese racing. Drifting, to be precise. At Nanjing’s Zhongshan Scenic...

Gold! Always Believe in Your Soul; You’re Indestructible

But once a year, the heavyweights in the Jiangsu world of arts and crafts gather for a smorgasboard of backslapping and celebration of what is, after all, an oft-ignored corner of culture. Taking place in the weeks prior to...

Maglev China on Track to Win 600 Kmh “Pace Race”

Technical proposals for an magnetically levitated train (maglev), passed by an expert review board in Qingdao in the past few days, have given China the go ahead to fast track its ambitions of realising the world’s first long-distance, ultra...

Tattooed Entertainers to be Banned from TV Appearances

19 January, 2018, and at the regular press briefing by the State Administration for Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television of the People’s Republic of China (SAPPRFT), Director of the Publicity Department, Gao Changli, called on radio and television...

Chess Brings International Culture to All at Jinling Library

There are few things that unite the peoples of the world as much as the game of chess. In all its forms, whether it be Xiangqi and its Japanese, Korean or Indian counterparts, or the more widespread international chess,...

First Nanjing Snows of the Year Biggest in a Decade

As evening settled and darkness fell in Nanjing on Wednesday, so the temperature finally plummeted and the rains began a flurry. Thus this morning, the city awoke to a thick snowfall, the first of this winter and 2018. Even at...

Steak & Sausage; Nanjing’s Western Staples

For all the hype associated with it, diners in Hexi looking for western options are going to quickly become bored. The Nanjinger was therefore potentially cheered to discover European Kitchen in the newly opened Golden Eagle Mall. ...

The Unicorn & the Eunuch; Saviours of the Ming Dynasty

The animals came in six by six, hoorah hoorah. The animals came in six by six, hoorah hoorah. The animals came in six by six, the qilin, dragon, turtle and phoenix... It is well known 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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