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Frank Hossack

On this Day in Chinese History; 14 December

This day, 14 December, in 1963, Premier Zhou Enlai began his famous “Asia Africa 14 Country Tour”, visiting Egypt, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Ghana, Mali, Guinea, Sudan, Ethiopia and Somalia, as well as Albania, Myanmar, Pakistan and Ceylon (now Sri...

On this Day in Chinese History; 13 December

This day, 13 December, in 1937, saw the start of the Nanjing Massacre, as the Japanese army took the city following their earlier capture of Shanghai. No less than 300,000 Chinese civilians were killed, many of them brutally and...

On this Day in Chinese History; 12 December

This day, 12 December, in 1946, in accordance with the Cairo Declaration and the Potsdam Proclamation, the Chinese Navy dispatched two warships, the “Taiping” and the “Zhongye”, to declare sovereignty over the Nansha Islands. After sailors and marines landed,...

On this Day in Chinese History; 11 December

This day, 11 December, in 1991, Premier Li Peng paid an official goodwill visit to India. Speaking with the Hindustan Times before leaving, Li said that in the then current volatile international situation, a heads of government meeting to...

On this Day in Chinese History; 10 December

This day, 10 December, in 1931, the League of Nations Council passed a resolution to send a survey team to Northeast China to investigate the issue of Japanese armed invasion. Headed by British politician Victor Bulwer-Lytton, the survey’s conclusions...

On this Day in Chinese History; 9 December

This day, 9 December, 1942, Indian doctor Dwarkanath Kotnis passed away. To his outstanding contributions in enhancing the friendship between China and India, Mao Zedong said, “The army has lost a helping hand, the nation has lost a friend....

On this Day in Chinese History; 8 December

This day, 8 December, 1941, the Pacific War broke out, with the United States and Britain declaring war on Japan. China also officially declared war on Japan, Germany and Italy. As a result, the Chinese people’s War of Resistance...

On this Day in Chinese History; 7 December

This day, 7 December, 1990, during his visit to Japan when he met with Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu, Huang Hua, Chief Advisor of the China Association for International Friendly Contact, said that friendly and cooperative relations between China and...

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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