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Frank Hossack

On this Day in Chinese History; 14 June

This day, 14 June, 1987, Indian Minister of External Affairs Narayan Datt Tiwari visited China after attending the Special Conference of Non-Aligned Countries in Pyongyang. Tiwari conveyed the message from the Indian government to Chinese Acting Premier Wan Li...

On this Day in Chinese History; 13 June

This day, 13 June in 1924, the Soviet government proposed to upgrade Sino-Soviet relations from the ministerial level to the ambassadorial level, and China welcomed it. The USSR therefore became the first country to send an ambassador to China....

On this Day in Chinese History; 12 June

This day, 12 June, 1987, Deng Xiaoping met with Yugoslav guests and expressed important opinions on China's reform issues. Deng said, “I advocate reform. There is no way out without reform. In the past, we copied foreign models, coupled...

On this Day in Chinese History; 11 June

This day, 11 June, 1979, Nakajima Kenzo, the Japanese social activist and sincere friend of the Chinese people, passed away. Nakajima had been President of the  Japan-China Cultural Exchange Association which he founded in 1956. One of the pioneers of...

Police Arrive in the Nick of Time as 3 Year Old in Yancheng Climbs out 7F Window

Locked in a room, half his body hanging out of the window, and with initial attempts by police to kick the apartment door down failing, a more experienced officer was finally successful in the 7 June incident at a...

On this Day in Chinese History; 10 June

This day, 10 June, 1907, the first Peking-Paris car rally began. 12,000 kilometers long, with five cars participating, Italian driver Scipione Borghese was the first to reach the finish line in 44 days. As the world’s earliest ultra-long distance...

52YO Decorator Falls Asleep Waiting 3 Days for Daughter to Finish College Entrance Exam

Asleep on the curb, his phone having slipped to the roadside and asked why he had stayed, Xiao Xinjian said, “It's far from home; I want to be here more, like taking an exam with her”. The Nanjinger added...

On this Day in Chinese History; 9 June

This day, 9 June, in 1898 in Beijing, Li Hongzhang, Grand Secretary of the Wenhua Hall; and Claude MacDonald, Her Majesty’s Minister in China, signed the Convention for the Extension of Hong Kong Territory, stipulating that the New Territories,...

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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