Frank Hossack

Nanjing Purple Mountain Cable Car Shame; Gone is the Chair Lift

This past weekend saw the opening of a brand new cable car service to the top of Nanjing’s Purple Mountain, replacing the chair lift service that dated back to 1993. A year in the making, and...

Sunny Skies to Stay; Government Denies Reports of VPN Ban

Following reports emerging in media all over the world over the past two days claiming China was to put an end to VPN use once and for all, the State has taken the surprising move of issuing a quick...

Nanjing Metro Line 5 Setbacks; Too Many Relics in the Way

At some point in the not so distant future, Nanjing’s metro line 5 will need to be in place under Shanghai Lu. Such a prospect has speculation running rife among those who live and work along this essential and...

Nanjing Metro Line S3 Could Enter Operation as Soon as November

Nanjing stands a chance of receiving its eighth metro line by the end of this year. The Nanjing Metro Group announced this week that the new link, Line S3, previously known as Line 12, will in...

Hairs to the Mohican; China’s Punk Renaissance

Bonds neither supplied by nature nor birthright, a connection far beyond that of mere friends; that not of lovers, and not blood related. A sub group of people that help one another grow, who support one another, financially, spiritually,...

Nanjing World Roller Championships to be Major Sports Spectacle

After last week’s announcement that this year’s Roller Games World Championships shall once again be held in Nanjing, beginning in late August, further details are emerging as to the scope of what promises to be one of the most...

Death Toll Mounts After Jiangsu Kindergarten Explosion

The northern Jiangsu city of Xuzhou was struck by tragedy Thursday afternoon when a large explosion occurred at Chuangxin kindergarten in the area’s Fengxian County. State media are reporting that gas cylinders were the cause of the blast while there...

The Dropa; Large Scale Extra Terrestrial Invasion of China

The story of events in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947 is infamous; the subject of countless books, websites, periodicals, TV series et al. The story itself is also perhaps more famous for being quite possibly the biggest hoax ever...

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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