Frank Hossack

About Jiangxi

Yichun; The Zen Rule that Began with an Elderly Monk’s Hunger Strike

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Monks at Baizhang Mountain hid their elderly abbot's farm tools one day, hoping to spare him physical labour; Baizhang refused to eat until the tools were returned; the phrase produced, "A day without work is a day without food",...
About Jiangxi

Fuzhou; The Small Jiangxi City that Produced Nearly Three Thousand Imperial Scholars

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Chinese sources tracking the imperial examination system estimate that roughly 100,000 jinshi degrees, the highest a scholar could earn, were awarded across the entire history of the exam; nearly 3,000 of them came from Fuzhou alone, a single prefecture...
Diplomacy Talks

On this Day in Chinese History; 21 September

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This day, 21 September, in 1988, when Deng Xiaoping met with Sri Lankan Prime Minister, Sri Lankabhimanya Ranasing, he referred to the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence, with regard especially to relations with neighbouring countries. Deng said these principles...
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On this Day in Chinese History; 20 September

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This day, 20 September, in 1994, at the 38th General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Chinese representative, Ambassador Chen Shiqiu, together with those of 38 other countries, including Britain, France, Germany, India, Japan, Pakistan, Russia and the...
Diplomacy Talks

On this Day in Chinese History; 19 September

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This day, 19 September, in 1950, China’s ascent to the United Nations was denied, after which the USSR’s representative stated, “It is high time to put an end to the unjust attitude adopted by the United Nations towards the...
About Jiangxi

Shangrao; The City Whose Own Map Looks Like a Bowtie

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Government administrative reforms in 1983 left Shangrao's territory pinched into two separate lobes joined only by a narrow strip of land, a shape so unusual that Chinese commentators now describe the city's silhouette on a map as a bowtie,...
Diplomacy Talks

On this Day in Chinese History; 18 September

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This day, 18 September, in 1931, a Japanese army detachment stationed in Manchuria detonated an ineffective explosion on the South Manchurian Railway as an excuse to occupy the city of Mukden. The Japanese then went on to occupy the...
Diplomacy Talks

On this Day in Chinese History; 17 September

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This day, 17 September, in 1894, the Battle of the Yalu River took place between ships of the Chinese Beiyang Fleet and the Imperial Japanese Navy, in what was to be the largest naval engagement of the First Sino-Japanese...
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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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