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Frank Hossack

On this Day in Chinese History; 17 July

This day, 17 July, in 1945, Chiang Kai-shek for China, Winston Churchill for the UK and Harry S. Truman for the USA, issued the Potsdam Declaration, in part calling on the Japanese government to immediately declare the unconditional surrender...

On this Day in Chinese History; 16 July

This day, 16 July, in 1966, Chairman Mao Zedong took the last of his 17 swims in the Yangtze River as he particpated in the 11th annual cross-river event that attracted as many as 5,000 swimmers. Mao was an...

On this Day in Chinese History; 15 July

This day, 15 July, 1979, the CPC Central Committee and the State Council approved two reports from the CPC Guangdong Provincial Committee and the Fujian Provincial Committee on implementing special policies and flexible measures for foreign economic activities, moving...

Jiangsu City League Inspires Village Football in Guizhou with 8,000SQM of Grass 

Twice recently flooded, the stadium in Rongjiang of Guizhou faced cancelling their village cup. But Jiangsu Weiteng Sports Industry Co. of Jiangsu stepped in to produce a replacement pitch in just 3 days, delivering in time for matches to...

On this Day in Chinese History; 12 July

This day, 12 July, in 1937, Zhang Hanhui, an early underground member of the Communist Party of China, composed “Along the Songhua River” in Xi’an. Zhang wrote both the lyrics and music for the song that depicted life for...

On this Day in Chinese History; 11 July

This day, 11 July, in 1405, Zheng He set sail from Nanjing on the first of seven voyages that would go as far as Africa. These southwestward voyages raised the international reputation of the Ming Dynasty, broadened the horizons...

On this Day in Chinese History; 10 July

This day, 10 July, 1929, the Chinese Eastern Railway Incident broke out. On that day, Zhang Xueliang took over the jurisdiction of the Chinese Eastern Railway by force, dismissed the Soviet personnel from the railway management and deported them,...

Boeing 777 in Dedicated Livery Marks Debut of 1st Direct Nanjing-Paris Flight

In part decked out in the elegant and fresh spring greens of the Jiangnan region, the weekly MU845 flight took off from Nanjing at 00:45 today, 9 July, to land in Paris at 07:00. Healthy ticket sales for the...

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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