Frank Hossack

Diplomacy Talks

On this Day in Chinese History; 8 October

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This day, 8 October, in 1975, Deng Xiaoping met with Prime Minister of Yugoslavia, Džemal Bijedić. Deng pointed out that the Third World is the foundation of the Non-Aligned Movement. The third world is diverse, as is the Non-Aligned...
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Car-Bed Campers Turn Hotel Car Parks into Free Showers and Toilets

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Chinese road trippers are swapping hotel rooms for the back seats of their own cars, folding them flat into beds and parking overnight at service stations, scenic car parks and even hotel grounds, while still using the hotel's showers...
About Jilin

Baishan; the Mineral Water City that Faces a North Korean Provincial Capital

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Nearly 200 springs in the mountains around Baishan flow a combined 455,000 cubic metres of water a day, and the city says an international drinking-water organisation named it China's International Mineral Water City in 2004. 白山境内近两百处泉眼,日流量合计达四十五万五千立方米;当地称,二零零四年一家国际饮水资源保护组织将白山命名为"中国·白山国际矿泉城"。 Jingyu county got there first:...
About Jilin

Songyuan; where Sun Yat-sen Drew a Railway Hub and Oil Built a City

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Sun Yat-sen's Industrial Plan, written in 1918 and 1919, called for a railway hub he named Dongzhen, to be built south-west of where the Nen and Songhua rivers meet, like a spider's nest at the centre of its web;...
About Jilin

Baicheng; the Grassland China Chose for Testing Its Weapons

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Forty-two testers at a new proving ground on Jilin's western grassland, with no environmental chamber yet built, simulated a sandstorm in autumn 1955 by shovelling dust into the wind to see whether a pistol would still fire. 一九五五年秋,吉林西部草原一座新建靶场上,四十二名试验人员在尚无环境模拟实验室的条件下,用铁锹把尘土扬进风里,模拟沙尘暴,检验一支手枪在风沙中还能不能击发。 The pistol test...
About Jilin

Yanbian; the “Third Korea” where Street Signs Put Korean First

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Shop signs, road signs and official seals across Yanbian, in China's north-east, must carry both Korean and Chinese, and local rules say that when the two are set side by side the Korean comes first, or on top. 在中国东北的延边,店铺招牌、路牌与公章都必须同时使用朝鲜文和汉文;当地规定,两种文字并排书写时,朝鲜文排在前面或上方。 Yanbian Korean...
Diplomacy Talks

On this Day in Chinese History; 7 October

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This day, 7 October, in 2021, during the general debate of the First Committee of the United Nations General Assembly, China and Russia issued a joint statement on strengthening the Convention on the Prohibition of Biological Weapons, reaffirming its...
About Municipalities

Beijing; the Capital whose Oldest Resident Went Missing in 1941

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China's best-known early human, Peking Man, vanished in December 1941 while his fossils from Zhoukoudian, now part of Beijing, were being shipped abroad for safekeeping on the eve of the Pacific War; the original skullcaps have never been seen...
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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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