Frank Hossack

On this Day in Chinese History; 18 December

This day, 18 December, in 1970, on the 31st anniversary of the publication of the Chinese translation of “Red Star Shines Over China”, Chairman Mao Zedong cordially received the author of the book, American writer Edgar Snow, in recognition...

On this Day in Chinese History; 17 December

This day, 17 December, in 1992, President of the Russian Federation Boris Yeltsin  paid an official goodwill visit to China. During the meeting, President Yeltsin commented that China-Russia relations have huge potential and broad space for development, while China...

Coca Cola Says “Goodbye Shanghai, Hello Kunshan!”

Shanghai’s loss is about to be Suzhou’s gain, as the world’s number 1 soft drink maker is setting about moving its biggest eastern China production plant out of the big smoke after almost 40 years. Live in Nanjing, Hangzhou, Wuxi,...

On this Day in Chinese History; 16 December

This day, 16 December, in 1949, Mao Zedong, Chairman of the Central Committee of the CCP and Chairman of PRC, visited the Soviet Union in what  was the first overseas visit by a leader of the New China. During...

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...

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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