Frank Hossack

On this Day in Chinese History; 8 January

This day, 8 January, in 1938, Canadian doctor Norman Bethune led a medical team from Vancouver to China to support Chinese people in the Second Sino-Japanese War. He actively treated both soldiers and civilians to later die in the...

On this Day in Chinese History; 7 January

This day, 7 January, 1978, when Deng Xiaoping met with a delegation of members of the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate, he clearly proposed the possibility of China’s “two-handed” solution to the Taiwan issue, striving to use...

KTV Arises from the Ashes as New Weight Loss Craze for China’s Youth

Half a month of pocket money spent with three or four friends and no hesitation, huddled in a private room, to sing our hearts out. But when the hours were over and the music had died, it was somehow...

On this Day in Chinese History; 6 January

This day, 6 January, in 1972, Marshal Chen Yi, Vice Premier of the State Council and Minister of Foreign Affairs, passed away. Chen had a distinctive personality with broad ideas, profound knowledge and keen eyesight. At a press conference...

On this Day in Chinese History; 5 January

This day, 5 January, in 1950, U.S. President Harry S. Truman issued a statement reaffirming previous international resolutions on the Taiwan issue, stating that he would not interfere in China’s internal affairs and confirming the principles towards China reiterated...

On this Day in Chinese History; 4 January

This day, 4 January, in 1969, the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination came in to effect. The Convention remains the principal international human-rights instrument defining and prohibiting racial discrimination in all sectors of...

On this Day in Chinese History; 3 January

This day, 3 January, in 2022, China, Britain, France, Russia and the United States jointly issued the “Joint Statement of the Leaders of the Five Nuclear-Weapon States on Preventing Nuclear War and Avoiding Arms Races”.  This was the first...

On this Day in Chinese History; 1 January

This day, 1 January, in 1979, the People’s Republic of China and the United States of America established diplomatic relations, after the U.S. government accepted the three principles for the establishing thereof proposed by China, namely the severing of...

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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