Frank Hossack

About Jilin

Jilin; The City That Named a Province and Built Warships for the Qing

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Jilin is the only city in China that shares its name with its province. The city came first. It was the provincial capital until 1954, and its name comes from the Manchu Girin Ula, meaning "along the river". 吉林是全国唯一与所在省份同名的城市。先有吉林市，后有吉林省。吉林市曾是吉林省省会，直到1954年；它的名字源自满语"吉林乌拉"，意为"沿江"。 The river...
About Jilin

Siping; Few Places Owe So Much to a Single Line of Steel

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Siping was a village called Sipingjie until 1902. That year the railway between Changchun and the port of Dalian was completed. A station opened, traders arrived and within a generation the village had become a regional commercial centre. 1902年以前，四平还只是一个名叫"四平街"的村落。那一年，长春至大连港的铁路建成通车。车站设立，商人随之而来，不到一代人的时间，这个村落就发展成为区域性商业中心。 The railway...
Diplomacy Talks

On this Day in Chinese History; 9 October

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This day, 9 October, in 1980, Deng Xiaoping met with a delegation from Panasonic, in order to introduce China’s policies for developing economic cooperation with countries around the world. He went on to explain that China would establish a...
About Jilin

Liaoyuan; the Coal Town where Japan Hid Its Senior Allied Prisoners

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General Jonathan Wainwright, the highest-ranking American captured in the Second World War, was held from December 1944 at a secret camp in a Manchurian coal town, and weighed under 45 kilograms at 1.88 metres when freed. 乔纳森·温莱特将军是二战期间被俘的美军最高级别将领;一九四四年十二月起,他被关押在东北一座煤城的秘密战俘营里,获救时身高一米八八,体重却不到四十五公斤。 The camp opened on...
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Tonghua; Manchukuo’s Last Capital and the Site of a Deadly 2009 Steel Riot

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Tonghua was Manchukuo's last capital, for nine days in August 1945, after the Kwantung Army ordered the government to retreat there from Changchun, and Puyi read his abdication edict at the iron-mining village of Dalizigou, then in Tonghua's jurisdiction...
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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:...
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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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