Frank Hossack

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On this Day in Chinese History; 12 April

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This day, 12 April, in 1847, Rong Hong arrived in New York, USA, to study. Rong (1828-1912), a Cantonese born into a poor peasant family, studied in a church primary school in Macau and the Morrison church school in...
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On this Day in Chinese History; 11 April

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This day, 11 April, in 1955, a bomb exploded aboard the Kashmir Princess, or Air India Flight 300, carrying a Chinese and Vietnamese delegation, together with journalists, and flying from Hong Kong to Jakarta, to participate in the Afro-Asian...
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On this Day in Chinese History; 10 April

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This day, 10 April, in 1971, the American table tennis delegation participating in the 31st World Table Tennis Championships in Nagoya, Japan, visited China at the invitation of the Chinese delegation. This visit opened the door on the 22...
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On this Day in Chinese History; 9 April

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This day, 9 April, in 1998, a naval fleet consisting of the guided-missile destroyer “Qingdao”, the training ship “Shichang” and the supply ship “Nancang” set sail from Qingdao to southern waters to participate in the celebrations of the 100th...
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On this Day in Chinese History; 8 April

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This day, 8 April, in 1968, China, the governments of Tanzania and Zambia signed protocols as to the construction of the Tanzania-Zambia Railway, for which the Chinese government provided interest-free loans of approximately ¥1 billion and 50,000 engineering/technical personnel....
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On this Day in Chinese History; 7 April

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This day, 7 April, in 1938, China secured its first victory in the Second Sino-Japanese War, receiving a moral boost with the Battle of Taierzhuang, commanded by famous KMT general Li Zongren. As per the New York Times, “Military...
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On this Day in Chinese History; 6 April

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This day, 6 April, 1963, the first Chinese medical team departed by train for Algeria, fulfilling international humanitarian obligations. Since then, batches of Chinese medical teams have travelled far from their homeland and loved ones to work in difficult...
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On this Day in Chinese History; 5 April

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This day, 18 March, in 1983, the headquarters of the Chinese People’s Armed Police Force was established in Beijing. The Force and its leading organs at all levels implements a system of combining compulsory and volunteer soldiers, the doctrines...
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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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