The Women MMA Fighters Kicking Ass in China

The Women MMA Fighters Kicking Ass in China that's guangzhou that's shenzhen 城市漫步珠三角英文版07月份国内统一刊号: CN 11-5234/GO China Intercontinental Press JULY 2018 that’s PRD 《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 : 北京西城月坛北街 26 号恒华国际商务中心南楼 11 层文化交流中心 11th Floor South Building, Henghua lnternational Business Center, 26 Yuetan North Street, Xicheng District, Beijing http://www.cicc.org.cn 社长 President: 陈陆军 Chen Lujun 期刊部负责人 Supervisor of Magazine Department: 付平 Fu Ping 编辑 Editor: 朱莉莉 Zhu Lili 发行 Circulation: 李若琳 Li Ruolin Editor-in-Chief Matthew Bossons Shenzhen Editor Adam Robbins Shenzhen Digital Editor Bailey Hu Senior Staff Writer Tristin Zhang National Arts Editor Erica Martin Contributors Paul Finkbeiner, Lena Gidwani, Cassandra Gu, Ned Kelly, Mia Li, Erica Martin, Dominic Ngai, Daniel Plafker, Jesse Pottinger, Pete Reilly, Zhuorui Wang, Dominique Wong HK FOCUS MEDIA Shanghai (Head Office) 上海和舟广告有限公司上海市蒙自路 169 号智造局 2 号楼 305-306 室邮政编码 : 200023 Room 305-306, Building 2, No.169 Mengzi Lu, Shanghai 200023 电话 : 传真 : Guangzhou 上海和舟广告有限公司广州分公司广州市麓苑路 42 号大院 2 号楼 610 室邮政编码 : 510095 Rm 610, No. 2 Building, Area 42, Luyuan Lu, Guangzhou 510095 电话 : 020-8358 6125 传真 : 020-8357 3859 - 816 Shenzhen 深圳联络处深圳市福田区彩田路星河世纪大厦 C1-1303 C1-1303, Galaxy Century Building, Caitian Lu, Futian District, Shenzhen 电话 : 0755-8623 3220 传真 : 0755-6406 8538 Beijing 北京联络处北京市东城区东直门外大街 48 号东方银座 C 座 G9 室邮政编码 : 100027 9G, Block C, Ginza Mall, No. 48 Dongzhimen Wai Dajie, Dongcheng District, Beijing, 100027 电话 : 010-8447 7002 传真 : 010-8447 6455 General Manager Henry Zeng Operations Manager Rachel Tong Accountant Annie Qi Production Supervisor Jack Lin Designer Felix Chen Sales Managers Celia Yu, Justin Lu Account Manager Wesley Zhang Senior BD Executive Nicole Tang Account Executives Annie Li, Tia Weng Sales Assistant Sunnie Lü Marketing Supervisor Fish Lin Senior Marketing Executive Shumin Li Marketing Executives Peggy Ni, Kathy Chen, Wyle Yuan Distribution Luo Zhi, He Wei Wen National Operation CEO Leo Zhou Head of Communication Ned Kelly National Digital Business Director Vickie Guo HR/Admin Director Penny Li Financial Manager Laura Lu Digital Content Manager Bridget O'Donnell Digital Miller Yue, Amanda Bao, Orange Wang, Yu Sun, Elsa Yang, Jimmy Mi, Kane Zhu, Wayne Wu General enquiries and switchboard (020) 8358 6125 [email protected] Editorial (020) 8358 9847 ext 808 [email protected] Sales (Guangzhou) (020) 8358 9847 ext 802 [email protected] (Shenzhen) (0755) 8623 3210 ext 801 Distribution/Subscription (020) 8358 7749 ext 828 Listings & Events (Guangzhou) (020) 8358 9847 ext 808. 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At the evening’s conclusion, I si- of the very best events in the Pearl lently pondered: where is China’s Ronda Rousey, where are China’s women warriors? River Delta, alongside a host of free With this month’s Cover Story, we have an answer, courtesy of the always-fabulous meals and other goodies. Follow our Dominique Wong from That’s Beijing. On pages 36-45, Dom takes an in-depth look at official WeChat feeds and sign up China’s rising female MMA stars and the challenges they face. for our weekly newsletter for your - chance to win major prizes! To stay In our City section, I chat with a Guangzhou-based filmmaker and attempted to an up to date, visit www.thatsmags. lake? swer a kinda bizarre question: is a man-eating species of salmon lurking in a Xinjiang com or scan the QR codes below and Elsewhere in the mag, we introduce one of Guangzhou’s premier swimming holes follow our WeChat accounts. (whichband Ugly boasts Girls some and sharegreat somecliff jumping stylish shirtsspots, forbe careful!),summer. chat with Shanghai punk Catch you all in August! ThatsGuangzhou Matthew Bossons Editor-in-Chief ThatsShenzhen Hourly updates on news, current affairs and general weirdness from around the PRD and China. FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA facebook.com/ThatsPRD twitter.com/ThatsPRD youtube.com/thatsonline #THATSPRD 4 | GZ | JULY 2018 | WWW.THATSMAGS.COM WWW.THATSMAGS.COM | JULY 2018 | GZ | 5 8 CITY 36 COVER STORY Heavy hitters: the female MMA fighters putting China on the 10 A DAY IN JULY international stage. The Marco Polo Bridge Incident. 16 TERROR TROUT Is a man-eating salmon lurking in a Chinese lake? 18 LIFE & STYLE 60 EVENTS 21 DAYTRIPPER GZ Baiyun Mountain Reservoir. 24 MINIMALIST TRANSITION An artistic extension to an existing hotel property. JUL 18 Dave Keyes GZ 26 ARTS 27 UGLY GIRLS The Shanghai punk band on riot grrrl and women in music. JUL 26 30 POETRY IN POLE- Berlin Philharmonic String Quintet DANCING A Shenzhen burlesque HK dancer’s journey. AUG 4 50 EAT & Bob Dylan DRINK MO 56 OUTBACK STEAKHOUSE American-style ‘Australian’ grub. 59 MANGO TREE Aroy Thai at its best. ONGOING La Parisienne - Cabaret Francais THE WRAP 6 | GZ | JULY 2018 | WWW.THATSMAGS.COM CITY The Key to Guangzhou Chatting with the man behind Canton’s first documentary webseries, p12 This Month in History Terror or Trout? P10 P16 8 | GZ | JULY 2018 | WWW.THATSMAGS.COM MAN ON THE STREET THE DIRTY DETAILS RECYCLING SCAVENGERS Income: RMB7-10 per load Dumpster Divers Days per week: Varies By Bailey Hu Hours per day: Varies hey lurk in the background She collects aluminum cans, height of her diminutive form, Shenzhen for the last six months, of certain neighborhoods cardboard and water bottles, “isn’t heavy,” she tells us. Some he says. Around about 40 to 50 Tand gated communities. selling them for about RMB7-10 days she doesn’t even fill it up, scavengers frequent their stop Quietly, unobtrusively, they per load. depending on her luck. each day, out of an estimated root through dirt-encrusted Collecting recyclables is only Fang is only part of the 10,000 trash pickers citywide. dumpsters and bulging plastic a side gig for Fang. At night she picture, one segment of China’s “If there was no one picking bags, picking out bottles or boxes washes dishes at a restaurant, massive recycling ecosystem. A up [trash], society would be a and leaving the rest. earning RMB3,200 per month. step up from the scavengers are mess.” Like old-timey nomads, Life is better here than back the middlemen, who collect and He has a point. Despite much- many carry their precious cargo home, she says, where she transport large amounts of plastics touted recycling regulations on poles balanced over one earned around RMB1,000. and cardboard to plants where and fines, actual bins have yet shoulder, using cheap sacks of Now, not only does she they’re processed and reshaped. to materialize in areas like almost comic proportions. command a higher salary but The ones Fang sells to Shangsha. And even when Also like nomads, they’re also a way to supplement it, happen to be camped out trash sorting takes place, not all elusive. One, an elderly white- although she has yet to tell her by a nearby overpass. Their recyclables make it into the can. haired woman in lavender son about her second line of apparatus is spare, ready to Scavenging is doubly useful – not work. be moved at short notice: two only are reusable items salvaged “on a walk,” picking up any During daylight hours on medium-size cargo trucks, scales from incineration, but streets and recyclablespajamas, tells that us catch she’s hersimply eye. her days off (usually Mondays and several massive bags full of sidewalks are left a little cleaner. She’s in her “70s or 80s,” she sorted recyclables. Despite benefiting society, says, and living with her family. through Shangsha, in Futian When we visit in the early When we ask how much she can District,and Tuesdays) looking Fang for items wanders afternoon, one truck is already most bitter work.” For about make from her small cache of she can collect and sell. Why half-full from the morning’s RMB5,000-6,000though, their jobs each are “the monthly, plastic and cardboard detritus, Shangsha? Because, unlike some pickings. Two of the business the three spend 16 or 17 hours she replies that she’s “not sure.” places, “the sanitation workers owners sit in the shade, while a day collecting and delivering Before we can ask another won’t curse at you” when you another sweeps up debris from trash, and sleep in their trucks question she meanders off, pick up garbage. the street. Chengguan come by at night. most likely in search of another Fang’s findings are either this corner every once in a while, For those with “no culture” dumpster. dug out of dumpsters (“if it’s one worker tells us, so it needs to and few opportunities, however, Fang Chunxiu, a Hunan look tidy.

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