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The Lonely Diplomats Club Meet the Micro-Ambassadors Dining at the World’S Largest Table P earl R iver D elta THE LONELY DIPLOMATS CLUB MEET THE MICRO-AMBASSADORS DINING AT THE WORLD’S LARGEST TABLE Follow Us on WeChat Now Advertising Hotline 400 820 8428 Nice Tats 城市漫步珠三角 英文版 7 月份 Girls Getting Inked Up 国内统一刊号: CN 11-5234/GO China Intercontinental Press Ice, Ice, Baby 07 Cool Off with Skating Spectacular Pole Dancing JULY 2014 No Tips Please, We’re Athletes 《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: 李红杰 Li Hongjie 期刊部负责人 Supervisor of Magazine Department: 邓锦辉 Deng Jinhui Chief Editor Tom Lee Deputy Editor Jane Kent Shenzhen Editor Gary Maidment Events and Web Editor Will Wu Editorial Assistant Van Fan Contributors Marianna Cerini, Andrew Chin, Lena Gidwani, Christine Gilbert, Oscar Holland, Monica Liau, Trevor Marshallsea, S. 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SILK ROAD HITCHIKERS THREE TO SEE ARTP27 QUOTE OF THE ISSUE EXHIBITIONS “For now, it doesn’t look like I have a choice but to send the children to universities overseas. There’s no looking back now because they don’t have the certificates." A Chinese mother who homeschools her children bewails lack of state support, P47 62 (GZ), 62 (SZ) EVENTS GZ SZ HK P54 WINE OF THE MONTH JULY 20 JULY 27 JULY 28 Staatsballett Berlin Rhonda Larson Stephen Bishop www.thatsmags.com / July 2014 5 Editor's Note JULY WIN WIN WIN In Guangzhou, a pair of tickets to flautist Rhonda Larson (p63), a pair of tickets to the Marseille Opera Orchestra (p64) and a pair of tickets to the Ballet Gala of the Staatsballett Berlin (p66). In Shenzhen, a pair of tickets to flautist Rhonda Larson (p62), a pair of tickets to the Inner Mongolia Junior Choir (p63) and 10 vouchers work by John Donne we mentioned earlier). o man is an island, wrote the English for a half pint of German metaphysical poet John Donne back in Grey-suited government-line-toeing palm-greasers beer at Lowenburg 1624, emphasizing the inescapable inter- these diplomats are not. Who knew ambassadors connection between all humanity. (Yes, Brauerei and Restaurant could be so interesting? Nthis is going to be a pseudo-intellectual and achingly (p71). pretentious editor’s note.) Elsewhere in the magazine we’ve put together all you need to know about two of China’s most popu- To find out how to win Some people are from small islands though. Micro- lar post-80s idols: blogger and sometime racecar these prizes and keep up nations that don’t have 5,000 years of history to driver Han Han and the Middle Kingdom’s rich- look back on, empires on which the sun never set to date with all the latest est writer Guo Jingming, whose books have been or untapped reserves of natural resources to use adapted into a series of hit movies (p30). news in the PRD, join our as bargaining chips in that great poker game of WeChat feed: Thats_PRD globalization. China has a national pole dancing team. Just let that sink in for a few moments – Why? What? One Yet they have embassies in China, often manned by one or two eccentric souls who represent their - Party Pier Clarification countries’ diplomatic interests on their own on a ingmore discipline. time? – and then flick over to p18 where we shoestring budget. Oscar Holland sought them out learned all about the latest fitness fad-cum-sport We’ve had several readers for our cover story to provide a surprisingly com- We have a couple of new columns starting up this contacting us for more in- pelling read (p34). month. First up, in Hobbyhorse we’ll be looking at formation about the quote common Chinese pastimes – this month it’s cracking in our June issue discussing Meet Malta’s Clifford Borg-Marks, who moved to the whip to spin a top (p15). Over in the Community the changes over at Party China in 1977 and sabotaged the light fuses at the section, a couple of adventurous expats are planning Pier. Never fear, you party to hitchhike their way along the old Silk Road, start- animals, your favorite bars have a good time in the dark. Discover the business ing in the ancient Chinese capital of Xi’an (p44). – including Wave, The Clock dealingsPRC’s first-ever of Cape disco Verde’s to makeJulio Morias,sure they who could has alljust and Suns – aren’t vanishing brokered a tourist development investment from - Macau that amounts to a remarkable 15 percent of lives the events in Hong Kong that led to Paul Party Pier is coming soon, his nation’s GDP. Or learn about Seychelles’ Philippe Gascoigne’sAnd finally, back famous page dentist columnist chair Ian celebration Walker re after andinto we’lloblivion. keep Phase you updated II of Le Gall, who collects curios like wicker-bound mod- scoring against Scotland in the 1996 European with the future plans as we els of King Kong, engages in tortoise diplomacy and Champions. get them. What we can say writes loves stories in his spare time, while admit- for sure is you can spend ting he is “no Hemingway” (who, incidentally, took Tom Lee the whole summer boozing the title of his 1940 novel about the Spanish Civil Editor in Chief it up down by the river! War, For Whom the Bell Tolls, from that very same 6 July 2014 / www.thatsmags.com www.thatsmags.com / July 2014 7 CITY « tales TALES OF THE CITY Well heeled in Shenzhen's Silly Run, which saw com- We’re the best… petitorsTwo notmen just battle surviving it out to the the heat finish but line rac - ing in the required high heels. …at having the worst image, says a recent report by Renmin University. Based on 2,000 amongmedia stories the top covering factors contributing 30 provinces, to the Guangdong report used province’s five indicators: poor performance. public security, The socialreport order, public services, environment and image of officials. Traffic jams and corruption were Respondents cited dereliction of duty, violence, spreading of rumors and sex scandals for also surveyed 1,400 people on perception of officials, in which Guangdong scored the worst. damaging the officials’ images. Guangzhou provides the goalies With more than one million legal sex workers on the ready at Brazil’s World Cup, there are more than just football issues He shoots, he scores! to contend with as host nation. China’s largest e-commerce platform has bought a 50 Hats off to the chef health crisis, the Brazilian gov- percent stake in the country’s top football team, as they ernmentIn an effort chose to prevent a Guangzhou a public shoot for expanding their business interests.
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