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Frank Hossack

This Week – Water | Water | More Water

The heavy rain pounded down in the early hours of Friday morning, but paused for a short while to reveal the cloud shrouded surrounding hills. Then it let loose again. The small stream was surging to its highest level...

End of an Era as Air Raid Shelters Open to Public

As city authorities once again fling open the doors of air raid shelters to provide welcome relief from the heat and humidity of Nanjing's summer, one of the more notable examples of these war time relics has this year...

Books are Boring! Nanjing Students Have Eyes Only for Smartphones

Long suspected and now confirmed; the death of the traditional book is upon us, at least for Nanjing’s students. In a new survey published by Nanjing Agriculture University, the smart phone is favoured over print by 87 percent of...

Spicing it up in World First for Nanjing

Themed hotel buffets can be, frankly speaking, a bit of a yawn. “Come and experience the Mediterranean!”, they scream. “Fresh seafood, all month long”. Well, I suppose that’s better than the alternative; not so fresh seafood. In a world...

Nanjing’s Venerable Choose Nursing Home Option

New research conducted by students and faculty in the School of Economics at Nanjing University of Finance has revealed that 49 percent of elderly people wish to live out their days in a nursing home. There...

Death Toll Mounts Amid Jiangsu Tornado Aftermath

As Nanjing is battered by the side effects of the tornado that struck eastern Jiangsu on Thursday last week, so the soul searching job of clearing up continues in the towns of Yizheng and Gaoyu. In...

Goldstar Café

Canadian outfit aiming to be a luxury café in an Scandinavian style; lots of natural light, contemporary design and fair-trade organic espresso. Read a review published in The Nanjinger here.

En Space; En Vogue

Wrongly or rightly, the quality of a dining experience is about so much more than just food. That Shanghai owned En Space has guanxi sufficient to secure themselves a location that sits into the spectacular setting...

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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