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Rediscovering the Great Wall See Beijing's Wonder of the World in N Ew Ways TRANSFORMERS CAPITAL COCKTAILS JIN YIMENG JAPANDROIDS 2013/08 REDISCOVERING THE GrEAT WALL SEE BEIJING'S WONDER OF THE WORLD IN NEW WAYS LOOKMORE INSIDE ON FOR OURESTIVAL F FIRST BURGER 2013/08 ECOLOGICAL ECONOMY CN 53-1197/F ISSN1673-0178 8 1 AUGUST 2013 ECOLOGICAL ECONOMY 生态经济(英文版) 主管单位: 云南出版集团公司 Cashier Alice Wang 主办单位: 云南教育出版社 HR & Admin Manager Denise Wang 出版: 生态经济杂志社 HR & Admin Executive Cathy Wang 社长: 李安泰 HR & Admin Assistant Siyu He 主编: 高晓铃 Director of Digital Communications & PR Iain Shaw 地址: 昆明市环城西路609号云南新闻出版大楼4楼 Chief Technical Officer Badr Benjelloun 邮政编码: 650034 IT Support Yan Wen 国内统一刊号: CN53-1197/F Deputy Web Managing Editor Jessica Rapp 国际标准刊号: ISSN1673 – 0178 Junior Web Editor Crystal Li Managing Editor Steven Schwankert Photographers Lova, Sui, Mitchell Pe Masilun Deputy Managing Editor Paul Ryding Sales Manager Ivy Wang Editors Cat Nelson, Jessica Rapp, Nick Richards Sales Account Executives Heiko Busch, Sheena Hu, Amy Sun, Sophia Zhou Production Manager Joey Guo Sales Junior Account Executives Maggie Zhang, Contributors George Ding, Marissa Kennedy, Iain Shaw, Anna Rudashko Nick Skidmore, Allison Reibel, Daniel Kipp Whittaker, Elizabeth Wu Sales Assistant Wendy Lü Advertising Agency True Run Media General inquiries: 5820 7700, 5820 7100 全国广告总代理: 深度体验国际广告(北京)有限公司 Fax: 5820 7895 北京广告代理: 北京爱见达广告有限公司 Editorial inquiries: [email protected] 地址: 北京市朝阳区建国路93号万达广场10号楼2801室 Event listing submissions: [email protected] Sales inquiries: [email protected] 邮政编码: 100022 Marketing inquiries: [email protected] 电话: 5820 7700, 5820 7100 Distribution inquiries: [email protected] 传真: 5820 7895 Room 2801, Building 10, Wanda Plaza, 93 Jianguo Lu, Complimentary copy, not for sale. Chaoyang District, Beijing 100022 部分非卖品，仅限赠阅 General Manager Michael Wester Operations Director Toni Ma Editorial Director Jerry Chan Art Director Susu Luo Designer Yuki Jia www.issuu.com/thebeijinger Marketing Manager Shana Zhang the_beijinger Event and Brand Manager Victoria Yang Marketing Assistant Vicki Huang WeChat theBeijinger Distribution Coordinator Cao Yue facebook www.facebook.com/theBeijinger Accountant Judy Zhao twitter theBeijinger 2 AUGUST 2013 06 What’s Happening: Our pick of the best events of the month CITY SCENE Stat: Just how many parking spaces does our city need? Going Underground: Chongwenmen, Lines 2 and 5 Scene & Heard: Go on, look at yourselves, you beautiful people 12 Rediscover the Great Wall. Read the story of two 19-year olds who COVER FEATURE walked the whole length of the Great Wall and how you can experience their adventure with an exclusive tour. Also, we give you the scoop on the most exciting Wall activities available. It’s not all for tourists, you know 20 What’s New: Modo Urban Deli, Pie Squared, The Horizon Chinese FOOD & DrinK Restaurant, Bantu, Alibi, Xiao Ju Courtyard, Whisky Bridge, Au Goulot, The Minibar Dining Feature: DIY Chinese Sandwiches Just Desserts: ViVi Dolce Gelato Last Orders: Matt Wong of Two Guys and a Pie Back For More: Haru Teppanyaki and Sushi Bar Alleyway Gourmet: Hangzhou Lotus Leaf Chicken Wokipedia: N is for … niunan, nong, nuomi, nen Taste Test: Toothpaste Dining Q&A: Chef Santosh Jori, Director of Kitchens, The Westin Beijing Financial Street Drinks Feature: Beijing Exclusive Cocktails Cocktail Profiler: Gordon Kutil of The Big Smoke Bistro … plus what we’ve loved eating this month 50 Inspect-A-Gadget: Tools for Short Trips GO What’s New Venues: Wing Fung Bicycle Company, Nostalgia Feature: Get your Transformers vocab down for Cybertron Con Page Turners: Apologies to My Censor by Mitch Moxley Get the Look: Board shorts are all the rage this summer Giveaways: Crowne Plaza Beijing Park View Wuzhou, Westin Beijing Financial Street Senses Restaurant, Wahoo, Ravioli Factory 62 Uniformity: Stephen Leonelli, Beijing LGBT Center MEET Feature: Jin Yimeng, Writer/Director Bookshelf: Qi Zhai, Yoga Instructor A Drink With: Michael Ohlsson, Owner of Dada Q&A: Japandroids Screentime: Stefen Chow, Photographer 70 Feature: William Lindesay sees the Great Wall not just as a historical ECOLOGY monument, but as wilderness that needs protection 73 What you shouldn’t miss this month EVENTS 79 FUN AND GAMES Win great prizes, plus Peking Man struggles with a moral dilemma This month’s cover features Gael NEXT MONTH: SEPTEMBER Thoreau and Moeda Hoefnagels BICYCLING EVENTS of Beijing Sideways. Photography BEIJING DEADLINE: by Mitchell Pe Masilun. AUGUST 12 3 AUGUST 2013 The most important dates this month WHAT’S HAPPENING With his Get crunked, merry arsenal wear your of surrealist 21 imagery rooted 18 swag, then in heart-on-sleeve drop your romanticism, Owl City ahem ... at Miami will be in town to melt your heart and move rapper Pitbull’s first your body with his ever show in Beijing. sincere approach to He will heat up the electronic dance music. stage with his Latin inspired beats, and Haze Out booty-wooing flavor. and Haze Out #2 were 24 Release the both massive punks! Who events. What could knows what possibly go wrong 24 will happen at Haze Out #3 (in when Beijing’s top punk the park)? Wing Daniel Savio coined the word, outfits are unleashed your way to Tianjin on 2 Kolegas for the Limonious defined the sound. ten-year anniversary with the Haze crew Now skweee is the intoxicating and get down in the 23 festival. Expect plenty new sect of dance music of big colorful hair, tight Canal Park with a sweeping across Sweden and soon to jeans, and sleeveless vintage twist. be slamming into Dada. denim. Pet Shop Boys have achieved a lot during Psytrance shaman Paul Taylor an illustrious career spanning over 30 takes you on an audible journey years (see p62). And having played all to the deep inner spaces of 22 over the world, bringing the Beijing 24 consciousness, with genuinely MasterCard Center to life would certainly be contemporary music for those with the another accomplishment of note. most discerning taste. Get appallingly It’s the summer of the burger, and by the time colorful while you read this it might just be clear who the final 10 embarking on 17 eight are in this year's the Beijinger Burger Cup. a five kilometer run in high summer. Said eight will gather at BCIS on this fateful day to But worry not; you’ll be decide, once and for all, whose patty is peerless. happy as a sandboy after completing the “happiest Experience this fantastic retrospective of 5K on the planet.” And an artist that not only became the voice just when you think of a generation but also changed the face it’s over, the finish line 8-11 of music forever. Expect a highly dramatic marks the start of a spectacle of imagination and artistry at Michael Jackson “Color Festival” party! The Immortal World Tour by Cirque Du Soleil. For more events, see p73. Visit www.thebeijinger.com for more details. 4 AUGUST 2013 5 AUGUST 2013 Start as you mean to go on CITYCHONGWENMEN // JOKES SCENE // NEWSBITES // SCENE & HEARD Beijing will need new parking spaces in the next two2.5 years if itmillion is to keep pace with car ownership. LETTER FROM THE EDITOR t can or can’t be seen from space, if you don’t visit you’re p. 12). Lindesay made three separate journeys to walk not a real man or a real Chinese, the thrill of victory and the Wall’s entire length, and has emerged as its greatest Ithe agony of defeat. We know all that. protector. Clark and his friend Beau Bacevicius spent 106 We were bored with the Great Wall of China too, if it’s days traipsing from Jiayuguan, in Gansu province, at the somehow possible to become disinterested in having Wall’s westernmost point, to Shanhaiguan, the Wall’s one of the greatest construction feats of human history eastern sea terminus, the only known people to make one in Beijing’s backyard, a relic that serves as a historical continuous journey across its length. Inspired by these monument, outdoor recreation area, and scenic viewing crossings and with our guide, we invite you to begin your platform. own rediscovery of Beijing’s greatest landmark. Then we realized we were looking at it all wrong, and Beijing’s music and cultural calendars are quite full this thought it was time to rediscover it, to make it great again. month, with The Pet Shop Boys, Pitbull, and Cirque du So we moved away from the tourist throngs, got out Soleil’s Michael Jackson The Immortal World Tour in town. where the Wall is wild, and tried to look at it from every Visit our the Beijinger website [www.thebeijinger.com] or possible new angle, and experience it in every new way. see our Events section to get in on the action. We flew over it, rode a horse on it, slid down it, dived under it, took a bicycle and sidecar motorcycle around it, had a picnic on it, made glass next to it and walked quite a bit of it for a good cause. Along the way, we met two of the Wall’s greatest ex- Steven Schwankert plorers, William Lindesay (see p. 71) and Eddie Davis (see Managing Editor 6 AUGUST 2013 GENERATION GAP I can see the Great Wall from up here Really? I’m made from bits of it TELL US A JOKE Kenny Cao AO Owner, Concertino C Q: What did one wall say to the other? A: Meet you at the corner. Head to Concertino to check out Kenny’s boutique of vintage stereo equipment and art supplies. PHOTO: COURTESY OF KENNY COURTESY PHOTO: 7 AUGUST 2013 NEWSBITES There’s a new video parody in rate of just 18.3 percent. They say of the cost of driving. town: expats Mark Griffith and three factors have affected Capital’s A group called W o r l d Andrew “Big Daddy Dough” performance: growing demand for Grassroots Alliance for Paws Dougherty dropped their music air travel; a high military to civilian in China (catchy, right?) claims video “Beijing State of Mind” to air use ratio (80 to 20); and poor to have freed eight dogs much positive feedback.
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