Frank Hossack

On this Day in Chinese History; 18 February

This day, 18 February, in 1992, during Deng Xiaoping’s tour of southern China, he said, “If it takes 100 years from the founding of the People’s Republic of China to build our country into a moderately developed country, that...

On this Day in Chinese History; 17 February

This day, 17 February, in 1973, Mao Zedong met with Henry Kissinger, National Security Advisor to US President Richard Nixon, in Zhongnanhai in Beijing. During the visit, the two sides agreed it was the right time to set up...

On this Day in Chinese History; 16 February

This day, 16 February, in 1949, the CCCP stated, “Due to the liberation of Tianjin and other important seaports, many foreign commercial institutions and those in the Kuomintang region demand to trade with us. In order to quickly recover...

On this Day in Chinese History; 15 February

This day, 15 February, in 1972, saw the passing of Edgar Snow. Some of his ashes would be buried by Weiming Lake at Peking University, while Ye Jianying would later personally inscribe a monument for him, writing, “The Tomb...

E-Bikes with Power Banks; China’s Latest Low Tech Innovation

Urgently in need of a boost? We’ve all been there, which is why we often seek out those trusty providers of shared-power banks which have become ubiquitous across our urban-China landscape. Now though, there’s a difference; they are coming...

On this Day in Chinese History; 14 February

This day, 14 February, in 1950, the “Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship, Alliance and Mutual Assistance” was signed in Moscow. It came after Premier Zhou Enlai led a Chinese government delegation to the Soviet Union for negotiations that sought to...

On this Day in Chinese History; 13 February

This day, 13 February, in 1939, five Indian physicians dispatched to aid China during the Second Sino-Japanese War arrived in Yan’an after a long journey, to be personally received by Mao Zedong. Among them was Dwarakanath Shantaram Kotnis, who...

On this Day in Chinese History; 12 February

This day, 12 February, in 2006, the United Nations Convention against Corruption officially entered in to force in China. As the most authoritative and influential global legal document in the field of anti corruption,China had signed the Convention in...

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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