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HOW to TRANSPORT YOUR PETS SAFELY HOME P42 THREE TO SEE ARTP25 EXHIBITIONS QUOTE OF THE ISSUE “For me, every part of the score is a high point. Uplifting music was needed, not anything with sadness or tragedy in it.” Academy Award-winning composer Alan Menken speaks about composing the music for the Beauty and the Beast musical p26 64 EVENTS HK P52 WINE OF THE MONTH JUNE 13-14 JUNE 27 JUNE 14 Beyond Time Couac David Guetta 4 June 2015 / GZ / www.thatsmags.com 8 CITY 12 THE REDS ARE ON THE TABLE Can China save a British sporting institution? 16 OFF THE PAGE China's Internet literature industry rewrites the rule book. 18 LIFE & STYLE 20 FRAME YOUR LOOK Throw shade with this season's hottest sunglasses. 22 THE DRAGON WEARS GUO PEI How China is climbing to the top of the fashion game. 24 ARTS 28 HE MAKIN' MONEY! An interview with 2 Broke Girls star Matthew Moy. 30 YANGBANXI The model plays that revolutionized Chinese theater. 52 EAT & DRINK 54 ABYSSINIA ETHIOPIAN Wat-chya waiting for? 58 ICE CUBE BAR AND GRILL Sit back and chillax. www.thatsmags.com / GZ / June 2015 5 Editor's Note June WIN WIN WIN Do you remember the early mobile phones, those huge bricks that could barely be considered ‘mobile’ and functioned equally well as a self-defense weapon? How about the days when everybody had a trusty Nokia, which lasted forever but could do little more than make calls and send texts? True, it also had the incredibly addictive game Snake, but that hardly compares to the colorful world of Angry Birds. It really hasn’t been that long since cellular technology became a commercial industry, yet the strides made in design and functionality have been almost as astonishing as the evolution of the Internet. Rather than the limited capabilities of a traditional phone, today we can shop for clothes, buy movie tickets and make dinner reservations while chatting hands- free to a friend via Skype. Nowhere are the implications of these advancements greater than in China. With In Guangzhou, a pair more mobile users than anywhere else in the world – three-quarters of whom possess of tickets to Beyond smartphones – the value of the Middle Kingdom’s m-commerce is predicted to hit USD450 Time (p66), a pair billion by next year. To put that figure in perspective, it is approximately equal to Singapore’s of tickets to The current GDP. Numerous companies and individuals are seeking to tap into the market, from Red Detachment of starting boutique online shops to setting up systems that can provide loans via your cell, and Women ballet (p66), a let’s not forget the actual business of making the phones. This issue, we picked up our Apples and Xiaomis to call some of the tech insiders right at pair of tickets to dra- the heart of the boom, in order to discover how m-commerce is revolutionizing the nation (see ma Couac (p68) and p34). vouchers for Element Staying with the Internet, we’ve also been taking a look at how online literature has gone Fresh (p78). from a rather niche, unprofitable hobby to a million-dollar profession – at least for the lucky few. Some of today’s most famous and respected Chinese authors first made their mark on In Shenzhen, a pair of the burgeoning web, leading the way in translating self-published stories into substantial tickets to the Beauty royalties (p16). and the Beast ballet On the fashion side, we dissect what this year’s Met Ball tells us about the state of (p61) and four vouch- Chinese couture (p22), while over in sport we investigate whether the future of snooker is in ers for the Tavern the hands of the PRC (p12). Sports Bar & Grill Interviews with musical actors, TV stars and up-and-coming rockers are also inside, as (p72). well as a guide to flying your pets back home (p42). Have a wonderful summer, PRD! For details of how to win, visit our WeChat Tom Lee Editor in Chief feed: Thats_PRD Calling all sexy people in the PRD! In preparation for our July issue, That’s PRD is looking for the Hourly updates on news, current affairs city’s sexiest in a range of professions. Nominate a friend (or and general weirdness from around yourself) and be sure to include a photo, full PRD and China. name, occupation and brief description FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA of what makes him or her so sizzlin’. Send all recommendations to facebook.com/thatsonline editor.prd@urbanatomy. com and get psyched for twitter.com/thatsonline the results next youtube.com/thatsonline month! gplus.to/thatsonline online.thatsmags.com 6 June 2015 / GZ / www.thatsmags.com www.thatsmags.com / GZ / June 2015 7 TALES OF THE CITY Celebrities of the night Prostitutes in Shenzhen have been commanding exorbitant prices recently through dastardly trickery, police in the southern metropolis have found. In an area of the country infamous for its booming Heads for heights skin trade, one group of sex workers put themselves above the competition by Vitaly Raskalov and Vadim Makhorov, whose exploits scaling China's loftiest buildings have creating fabricated articles on Baidu and become so celebrated they might as well copyright the epithet ‘Russian Daredevils,’ are back Sohu Baike (Chinese versions of Wikipedia), yet again. After conquering Shanghai Tower, Shun Hing Square and rooftops across Hong Kong, publishing fake news features on themselves the pair then set their sights on the 115-story Ping An International Finance Centre, still under and Photoshopping their faces onto images of construction in Shenzhen and soon to be China's tallest skyscraper and the second tallest in the celebrities. All of this was intended to prove world just behind the Burj Dubai. that the women were famous entertainers. Middle school dropouts from Shanxi were thus passed off as mixed-race, Korean- Uber out Freedom frighteners born, Austrian-educated master pianists, andrenowned brushed models shoulders and Miss with China the creme finalists de la cremewho spoke of Chinese half a dozensociety. languages The deceit fluently worked brilliantly, and the women commanded prices analogous to actual B-list celebrities – ranging into the tens of thousands. It was reported on May 6 that four women and one man were arrested by Shenzhen police in association with the saucy subterfuge. In light of the recent raid on Guangzhou’s Freedom Fighters in Guangzhou. Sounds romantic, doesn’t it? But how it sounds launch a new state-owned system for online isn't what the group turned out to be v Twister taxiUber booking.