Frank Hossack

On this Day in Chinese History; 1 December

This day, 1 December, in 1992, the New Eurasian Land Bridge, from Lianyungang in Jiangsu Province to the Port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands, was put into operation. The New Eurasian Land Bridge, which spans 10,800 kilometres across the...

On this Day in Chinese History; 30 November

This day, 30 November, in 1975, US President Gerald Ford set out to visit China. This was the second visit to China by a US president before the two countries established diplomatic relations. During the visit, Chairman Mao Zedong...

On this Day in Chinese History; 29 November

This day, 29 November, 1845, the local government of the Qing Dynasty and the first British consul in Shanghai signed the “Shanghai Land Lease Charter” over a piece of land intended exclusively for foreigners to reside, demarcated by the...

On this Day in Chinese History; 27 November

This day, 27 November, in 2018, President Xi Jinping paid a state visit to Spain at the invitation of King Felipe VI. During the visit, the two sides issued the “Joint Statement between the People’s Republic of China and...

On this Day in Chinese History; 25 November

This day, 25 November, in 1998, Beijing Mayor Jia Qinglin officially submitted an application to host the 2008 Olympic Games to Wu Shaozu, Chairman of the Chinese Olympic Committee. The ultimate winning of that bid, despite the unsuccessful previous...

On this Day in Chinese History; 23 November

This day, 23 November, in 1983, Hu Yaobang, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPC, paid an official goodwill visit to Japan, during which the two sides agreed to adjust the three principles of Sino-Japanese relations into...

On this Day in Chinese History; 22 November

This day, 22 November, in 1943, the Cairo Conference, attended by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Chinese President Chiang Kai-shek and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, was held in Egypt. There was issued the “Cairo Declaration”, with the aim...

What does it take to become a UNESCO City of Music? Wuxi Answers the Question

Their faces beamed, alive more than perhaps ever before, still fresh from the exciting recent news. And now, a foreign-internet celebrity had come to sing with them, as their brass band performed for senior residents in a Wuxi retirement...

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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