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Hacked! Breaking Into China's Makerspaces P earl R iver D elta Hacked! Breaking into China's makerspaces Also in this issue: Antarctic eco-tourism Should you be living in Chengdu? Behind the scenes of blockbuster Dragon Blade Follow Us on WeChat Now Advertising Hotline 400 820 8428 城市漫步珠三角 英文版 2 月份 国内统一刊号: CN 11-5234/GO China Intercontinental Press 02 FEBRUARY 2015 《城市漫步》珠江三角洲 英文月刊 主管单位 : 中华人民共和国国务院新闻办公室 Supervised by the State Council Information Office of the People's Republic of China 主办单位 : 五洲传播出版社 地址 : 北京市海淀区北三环中路 31 号生产力大楼 B 座 7 层 邮编 100088 B-721 Shengchanli Building, No. 31 Beisanhuan Zhonglu, Haidian District, Beijing 100088, PRC http://www.cicc.org.cn 社长 President of China Intercontinental Press: 李红杰 Li Hongjie 期刊部负责人 Supervisor of Magazine Department: 邓锦辉 Deng Jinhui 编辑 : 刘扬 发行 / 市场 : 黄静 李若琳 广告 : 林煜宸 Editor in Chief Tom Lee Guangzhou Editor Jocelyn Richards Shenzhen Editor Christine Gilbert Web Editor Matthew Bossons Events Editor Will Wu Editorial Assistant Emma Guo Contributors Noemi Cassanelli, Marianna Cerini, Hsing K. 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GENERatION ZZZZ P45 THREE TO SEE ARTP27 EXHIBITIONS QUOTE OF THE ISSUE "It’s [an agent's] job to keep you in the dark. Since you sign with the agents and they sign directly with the producers, they might take the same wage as you." Jim Bennett discusses the trials of being an actor from the set of new action blockbuster Dragon Blade P32 64 EVENTS HK P52 WINE OF THE MONTH FEBRuaRY 10-MARCH 11 FEBRuaRY 14 FEBRuaRY 19 Russian International Circus Valentine's Day Chinese New Year Parade 4 February 2015 / SZ / www.thatsmags.com 8 CITY 12 THE ‘HEART SHOCK’ OF ANtaRCTIca Chinese eco-tourists on the southernmost continent. 16 THE OTHER SIDE OF Joy Challenges of Chinese New Year. 18 LIFE & STYLE 20 CoatING IT UP Winter-safe wrap ups. 22 THE CAPItaL OF HEAVENLY COUNTRY Should you be living in Chengdu? 26 ARTS 28 ChasteNED GIRL POWER Yao Momo tells the stories behind lines and shadows. 32 DANces WITH WoLVes Award-winning director takes on best-selling book. 52 EAT & DRINK 54 PIZZA EXPRess Delivered straight to your stomach. 58 CRAFT HEAD NANO TAP HOUSE The village pub. www.thatsmags.com / SZ / February 2015 5 Editor's Note February WIN WIN WIN In Shenzhen, we are giv- ing away two RMB600 vouchers for Mexican joint Tequila Coyote Cantina Shekou (p71) and 10 RMB50 vouchers for Vietnamese restau- rant Muine (p72). For more competitions and details of how to win, visit our WeChat feed: That_PRD It’s Spring Festival time once more, and 2015 with its cover story on fortune telling, opting sees us entering the Year of the… Goat? Or is instead for the wonders of science and a it sheep? Much to the baa-musement of many front-page feature on hackerspaces. There’s a Westerner, the Chinese word 羊 (yang) can a veritable paradise of creative electronic refer to both, which generally means you engineering going on right here in Shenzhen, have to guess the intended animal by context. more so than anywhere else in China. For once, When it comes to the Chinese zodiac, however, people aren’t traveling from all over the world nobody, not even the Chinese, are entirely to visit Beijing or Shanghai for something, sure which 羊 the original creators of the no sir; it’s the PRD that’s China’s raw tech astrological charts meant, leading to a confused Mecca, overflowing with circuit boards, robots proliferation of festive red decorations that and ingenious designs for future innovation. alternately feature goats and rams – or Flick over to p34 and experience the world of sometimes both frolicking merrily together. tomorrow! What is for certain, though, is that the Speaking of other worlds, this month we Year of the Goat/Sheep is no big whoop. This braved the icy wilderness of Antarctica with time last year, we were singing to the rooftops Polar Explorer founder Wang Xiangyi, who’s about how lucky 2014 would be – on the back determined to save the southernmost continent of the horse comes money (马上有钱)! On the by educating people through experiential back of the sheep, however, comes meekness, excursions. You can read all about the beautiful kindheartedness and peacefulness – more or south and find out more about Wang’s excellent less the absolute worst qualities, at least in the cause on p12. eyes of a no-nonsense populace that believes A little closer to home, we delve into Hourly updates on news, current affairs in strength of will and speaking your mind (at the truly magnificent culinary and cultural and general weirdness from around least in non-political matters). If you’ve picked wonders of Chengdu, China’s western outpost PRD and China. up a newspaper in the last eight months, you which is fast growing into the next big thing. FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA may already have read about the panicked While we love going just for the spicy eats and would-be spouses and parents who have tried the fascinating history, the city is also a hotbed facebook.com/thatsonline to ensure their happy days take place before of growth, housings the Middle Kingdom’s the not-so-fortuitous Year of the Goat/Sheep first butler academy and the world’s largest twitter.com/thatsonline commences. Children born in 2015 will be building (p22). followers, not leaders, and nobody wishes for Happy New Year! youtube.com/thatsonline a Joe Biden over a Barack Obama… or a Kelly gplus.to/thatsonline Rowland over a Beyonce. Taking all that into consideration, we’ve Tom Lee online.thatsmags.com decided to abandon last year’s superstition Editor in Chief 6 February 2015 / SZ / www.thatsmags.com www.thatsmags.com / SZ / February 2015 7 taLes OF the CIty Connecting stations It looks like Guangzhou will soon be added to the short list of mainland Chinese cities that offer free Wi-Fi on the Metro. According to an article posted on the China News Service (CNS), Southern Galaxy Valley – which manages roughly 70 percent of all subway Wi- Fi services in mainland China – has partnered with Guangzhou Metro to implement the Internet undertaking. Zhou Fazhan, the chairman of the Shenzhen-based company, is reported as stating that the project will commence after Chinese New Year. Pegged to cost RMB200 million (USD32.3 million), if everything rolls out smoothly, Wi-Fi services will be available on select lines by July 2015, with the entire Metro covered sometime in 2016. Guangzhou will be the third city to join The lottery the list of Wi-Fi-available Metro networks, after Shenzhen loves its cars. So when the city’s residents were told on December 29 that Shanghai and Shenzhen. At approximately 6.22 only 100,000 new vehicle license plates would be issued annually by authorities, the million daily rides last year, according to the reaction was shock. This quickly turned to anger, especially since, in September, when Southern Metropolis Daily, Guangzhou is one of China's most heavily used subway systems. city would not implement a license plate restriction policy. Around 60,000 plates the number of cars in Shenzhen reached three million, government officials said the cars, while the other 40,000 will be auctioned. Shenzhen is the eighth city in China to restrictare expected car license to be releasedplates, following via lottery, Beijing, including Shanghai, 20,000 Guangzhou, earmarked Tianjin, for fuel-efficient Guiyang, Shijiazhuang and Hangzhou.
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