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I absolutely love a good history story, particularly one that involves lost cities, maritime lore or an unsolved mystery. Our cover story this month has all three of these elements and it’s an instant classic.

Back at the conclusion of last year, shortly after publishing another history-related feature on the alleged lost Roman legion of ancient China, a friend contacted me with a hot tip: There had been a 16th century Spanish settlement in South China and historians believe it would likely have been located somewhere in the Pearl River

Delta. This short-lived trading post, I soon learned, was called El Piñal, and my colleague Ryan Gandolfo has spent the last several months researching the site’s fascinating history. On pages 34 to 43, we share the story of El Piñal.

In our City section, Jesse Pottinger and myself introduce you to the beauty of Guangdong’s abandoned Canada

Village (page 10), which is located south of Guangzhou and west of Shenzhen in Kaiping.

We also have a fantastic travel guide to (page 20) in our Lifestsyle section, and some cool concert previews and album recommendations in our Arts section, courtesy of our national arts editor, Bryan Grogan.

I’ll wrap this month’s note off with a heartfelt thanks to everyone who participated in our 2019 That’s

Hospitality Awards at the end of last month. It was a memorable evening and I cannot wait to share the official results with you in our October issue.

Until then, keep your stick on the ice!

Matthew Bossons Editor-in-Chief

Hourly updates on news, FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA current affairs and general facebook.com/ThatsGuangzhou youtube.com/thatsonline weirdness from around the PRD and China. twitter.com/ThatsGuangzhou #THATSGUANGZHOU 6 CITY 34 COVER STORY THE SPANISH EMPIRE IN SOUTH CHINA 7 HAZARDOUS HAZE The lost 16th century outpost of El Piñal. Air pollution could be as damaging to lungs as smoking, researchers claim. 10 GHOST TOWN There is an abandoned Canadian village in South China and we visited it.

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HAZARDOUS HAZE Air Pollution Could Be as Damaging to Lungs as Smoking, Researchers Claim By Jesse Pottinger

imately three parts per billion (ppb) around a The highest levels of ozone tend to occur aving dealt with some of the worst person’s home “was equivalent to smoking a on sunny days with high temperatures, so air quality in the world, neither the pack of cigarettes a day for 29 years,” accord- while China has made impressive strides in Chinese government nor the public is H ing to NPR. It’s not entirely clear in the report curbing air pollution in major cities, rising unaware of the effects of air pollution on an how long someone must breath air with the temperatures associated with climate change individual’s health and quality of life. aforementioned ozone increase to fall victim still pose a serious threat to air quality. But a new study published in the Journal to the negative health effects usually reserved Like China, the US has seen a decline in of the American Medical Association suggests for a smoker of 29 years. air pollution in recent years, but the presence that the long-term effects of breathing pol- For comparison, Phys.org reports that in of ground-level ozone is harder to manage. luted air are worse than previously expected, China, where the national ozone air quality “And so, as climate change progresses, with researchers comparing pollution expo- standard is around 80ppb, over 60 days per we expect that vulnerable populations, and sure to smoking cigarettes in terms of the year exceed the safe air quality standard in even healthy populations, are going to see in- resulting health consequences. the country’s populous eastern and central creased effects,” says Emily Brigham, a Johns NPR reports that even marginally el- regions. Hopkins University assistant professor of evated air pollution levels can correlate The study examined 7,000 adults from six medicine and pulmonologist, to NPR. to quicker development of damage to the cities in the United States – Winston-Salem During their early stages, symptoms lungs in susceptible populations, regardless in North Carolina, St. Paul in Minnesota, New of respiratory disease may not be notice- of whether or not the people exposed also York City, Los Angeles, Chicago and Baltimore able, but with exposure over long periods smoke cigarettes. – who experienced long-term exposure to of time, respiratory damage from diseases The study, which was released last above-average ground-level ozone concentra- like emphysema and COPD is thought to be month, focuses on the threat of chronic res- tions. permanent. piratory diseases like emphysema and chron- The subjects, living in areas that con- IHME data reveals that in 2017, COPD ic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), tained yearly average ozone levels ranging was the third leading cause of death in China, analyzing the health consequences of inhal- from 10 to 25ppb, had lung damage compara- followed by lung cancer at No. 4 and esopha- ing numerous pollutants, namely ground- ble to changes in the lungs of smokers. geal cancer at No. 10. level ozone (which accounts for the highest “It was a very large surprise to us to see percentage of pollution contained in smog). that the effects were in the same magnitude Joel Kaufman, a University of Washington as cigarette smoking, which is the best-estab- epidemiologist and physician and one of the lished and most-recognized cause of emphy- authors of the study, says his team discovered sema,” says Kaufman, according to NPR. that a ground-level ozone increase of approx-

WWW.THATSMAGS.COM | SEPTEMBER 2019 | GZ | 7 THE BUZZ RANDOM NUMBER DON’T YOU KNOW WHO I AM? 47 ‘The Rock’ …is the number of cities that will be Last month, Hollywood heavyweights affected by the recent suspension on Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson and Jason individual tourist visas for Chinese Statham stopped off in Beijing and mainland residents traveling to Guangzhou to promote the newest install- Taiwan, announced by the Association ment in the Fast and Furious franchise, for Tourism Exchange Across the Hobbs and Shaw. In Beijing, Johnson and Taiwan Straits. The notice, published Statham met with fans and journalists at on China’s Ministry of Culture and Bright Film-Television Culture Park on August Tourism website, cited current cross- 5. According to a source at the scene, the strait relations as the reason behind marketing event in Guangzhou was held on the changes. The suspension, which August 7 at the Four Seasons Guangzhou. cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Xiamen,officially Tianjin, began on , August 1, Nanjing,includes Guangzhou, Chengdu, Shenzhen and , all of which will no longer be issuing G visas. Individual tourist visas from mainland cities to Taiwan started back in 2011, with residents in Beijing, Shanghai and Xiamen get- QUOTE OF THE MONTH and more Chinese mainland cities wereting first given dibs. permission, In recent spawningyears, more what could be described as a tourism boom for Taiwan. While Chinese mainland residents are still permitted to travel to Taiwan, they must go through a tour group. A quota on the number of visi- tors will also be in place.

“It just came by in a flash, as soon as I saw it I was startled. I thought it was a horse, so I went to get a closer look and realized it was an ostrich” So said one resident in Yunnan’s Shiping county last month, after spotting a 2-meter- tall ostrich sprinting down the street. The huge bird was reportedly frightened by guests visiting with the ostrich’s owner and bolted like a bat out of hell – running through the streets of Shiping. The animal was eventually captured and returned home, but not before getting a taste of sweet, sweet freedom. Don’t be surprised if we see this ostrich on the loose again…

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URBAN DICTIONARY magine doing internship after internship ple. Platforms from WeChat to Alipay love to for no pay after graduating from college promote their aspirational content and fans Ior even grad school, but seeing your peers up-vote their answers on Zhihu until they on WeChat Moments sitting on the board of become KOLs. Coupled with the fact that we public companies founded by their fathers. only see the most up-voted content (because come on – ain’t nobody got time for anything and having to think twice about buying things else), suddenly we are all wobbling yellow onImagine Pinduoduo, working but a readingregular nine-to-fivestories on Zhihu job of lemons bursting with bitter juice wondering how others drop tens of thousands of kuai on “How come they have so much and I have so ningmeng jing / níngméng jīng 柠檬精 n. bottles of champagne at night clubs. Imagine little?” someone who is so envious of another per- never having the chance to buy an apartment And that is a ningmengjing. Literally son’s possessions or achievements as to har- in Beijing, while seeing others showing off meaning “lemon essence,” a ningmengjing is bor suspicion and resentment stacks of fangchanzheng (apartment owner- someone who is envious of those who have a lot and resentful about having so little. Some Look! This guy is live-streaming proposing to your girlfriend break up with you because ningmengjing are bitter, blaming themselves his girlfriend with 100,000 Xiaomi phones! youship can’t certificates) buy her onthe Douyin. latest Huawei Imagine phone, having and others for their misfortune; others are while seeing some guys live-streaming vaca- sour, thinking that the rich will eventually fall tions with their from their thrones one day. Some call them- I bet they’ll get divorced within the year. in Sanya. selves ningmengjing as a form of self-depreca- In those moments, girlfriends if you at werefive-star to bite hotels tion, because they know they will never be in yourself, what would you taste like? Probably the social media spotlight and will always be You are such a ningmengjing. either sour or bitter, because you have just up-voting KOLs from the sidelines. been turned into a human-shaped lemon Welcome to the People’s Republic of Envy. Whether you are a bitter or a sour ning- Ugh. I don’t even have a boyfriend. Welcome to the age of social media, mengjing, we hope you make lemonade of it wherefilled with the lifestylebitter juice! of the rich and privileged all. Mia Li is only one click away from us regular peo-

GENERATION GAP What are your opinions on Beijing’s recent blacklist of ‘uncivilized behaviors’ enforced in public spaces such as parks?

XUE, 26 “I think such a social ZHANG, 38 “I think the technol- credit system is very ogy behind such necessary. It’s time social credit systems that those who do not is progressing fast, respect the collective to the point that now rules suffer conse- blacklisted people are quences. As long as limited in their ability punishments are ad- to travel, internally or ministered fairly and abroad, to buy cars or with transparency, I believe an integrated time, we might have system like the one ahouses. nationwide For the ‘carrot first that is being built and stick’ system that now, where unlawful can administer punish- ments, but also rewards. I think this is certainly necessary to pro- tect people, though it is quite impressive the impact that it can atbehavior large. Chinese influences society one person’sencompasses freedom people in different with a variety areas fromof have on one’s life. Still, ideally the system should promote mutual views,mobility education to access levels to financing and views tools, of thecan worldactually – aspects protect thatsociety we trust and help people have a basis to collaborate without fear – describe with the term suzhi. Up until now, it was almost impos- sible to hold everyone to a unique standard, as punishments for behaviors that damage the collective good were actually very that is definitely something we need in China.” hard to enforce. This is something a blacklisting system might be As told to Edoardo Donati Fogliazza

able to finally achieve.”

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There is an Abandoned Canadian Village in South China and We Visited It By Matthew Bossons and Jesse Pottinger

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he southern Chinese province of Guangdong is, at present, anyway, home to two UNESCO World THeritage Sites – one cultural heritage site and one natural heritage site. The storied settlement of Kaiping, a part of the prefecture-level city of , serves as the province’s sole cultural heritage site, and its architecturally sublime homesteads and watchtowers attract large groups of domestic and overseas tourists each year.

Diaolou and Villages, the sights most frequented by touristsOfficially are without registered doubt with the UNESCO old village as the of Chikan Kaiping (cur - rently undergoing redevelopment or, perhaps, restora- tion work – depends who you talk to) and the clusters at Zili, Jinjiangli, Sanmenli and Jianglong. (For the unaware: Diaolou are eclectically designed, forti- concrete.) fied multi-story residences and watchtowers made of we’d heard the tale of an abandoned village named after the NorthWhen Americanwe first visited country the situated area several above years the 49thago, parallel: Canada. (Geography nerds may note only four Canadian provinces actually border the US along the 49th, but we’re taking creative license with this one.) “It’s called Canada Village because most of the origi- nal inhabitants left the area for Canada,” Rocky Deng, a hotel, art space and restaurant proprietor in the town of Tangkou, tells us over a late-night beer on our most recent visit. “The whole village is empty, maybe only one or two families still live there and there might be a secu- rity guard on-site – but that’s it.” Deng, who had previously lived in both Hong Kong and Vietnam before moving to Kaiping in 2010, adds that there are lots of beautiful – albeit decaying – old residences left behind by their inhabitants in the 1960s and ’70s, when many people left the area for the lights of the big cities on the Pearl River Delta or the promise of a new life overseas. Deng, whose parents are origi-

2004 and opened his hostel slash art space slash restau- rantnally – from known Huadu as Tk-Space in Guangzhou, – in 2016. first visited the area in

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Longtime Kaiping resident Kaiyi echoes this senti- ment, telling us, “The people moved out of the diaolou to the big city or to other countries.” Naturally, we are intrigued by the idea of an aban- - lage named after the Great White North, so we channel ourdoned, inner historically Dr. Jones, and hop architecturally on rental bikes significant and set out vil for Canada Village. Without precise coordinates, we make our way from Tangkou to the tiny village of Lingyuan. As we’ve come to expect in Kaiping, the journey to our off-the-beaten- path destination provides us with serene, picturesque views of sprawling rice paddies and weathered diaolou. As we cruise through Lingyuan, an elderly man shines a toothless smile as he directs us up the road. Somewhere between the villages of Xiacun and Xiacunxincun, we’re greeted by an arrow-shaped sign reading ‘Canada Village.’ The relatively new-looking post to which it is attached is perhaps one of the many touristic enhancements that have appeared here in re- cent years, as eyes from around Guangdong and Greater China turn their sights on the once-unsung gem that is Kaiping. A few more twists and turns, past a duck farm and several derelict buildings, some inhabited and others all but crumbled, and we reach a narrow dirt path sur-

exit to Canada Village. roundedAhead by of flooded the overgrown rice fields cluster – the singleof mansions, entrance an and impressive grey brick structure stands alone among the farmland. If any of the buildings here are still occu- pied, this may be it. The remaining houses – a dozen or so – line the left side of the trail, mainly in tight-packed rows of two. Stunning Canadian- and European-inspired architecture is the dominant design feature of the man- -

sions, accented by traditional Chinese text and magnifi narrowcent details, alleyways from floralfrom thepatterns main andpath nature lead to scenes the second to columnfictional of winged buildings, creatures. each with Shrouded an overgrown in vegetation, courtyard the surrounded by mossy brick walls that – wobbling with the slightest nudge – seem ready to collapse.

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prior to setting out on our cycling adventure. Across from the row of homes, a single lychee tree is perched on soil elevated from its damp sur- roundings, and a few people scale the branches, har- vesting the beloved South China fruit. We ask them if they live in this village, and a man tells us no, before

Canada decades ago. confirmingThere’s thata certain Canada mystique Village’s about residents Canada all Village.left for Unrestored and barely touched for over half a cen- tury, in some ways this obscure plot of land rivals the tidier, consistently attended diaolou clusters nearby that earned the city its UNESCO recognition – if not for their beauty alone, then certainly for the specta- cle of such beauty suspended in time, as the natural world grows, intertwines and evolves around it. But Canada Village is not alone: In our journey through Tangkou and the surrounding area we en- counter countless forgotten diaolou and homesteads. “The local government would love to have all these abandoned diaolou restored, they’ve been empty for a long time,” says Deng, adding that there are around 2,500 diaolou in Kaiping. “I’d guess that approximately 10% of Kaiping’s diaolou are still in- habited.” It’s not entirely clear who owns these crumbling diaolou: While numerous locals told us that the struc- “Maybe in the future it will tures are ‘privately owned’ by folks overseas (who’ve forgotten about them – or don’t care – hence the poor be better and the abandoned state of many of the towers), private ownership of land is forbidden in China. diaolou will be restored” One thing is for sure though: Changes are hap- pening in Kaiping and there seems to be a genuine interest in attracting more visitors to the UNESCO- honored area – which means many of the abandoned structures may be set for a facelift. With the afore- mentioned construction work going on in Chikan’s old town, it’s likely a matter of time before attention turns to other areas. “Nowadays the government is promoting the di- aolou more and more. We now have visitors; when I was a kid we had no visitors,’ Kaiyi tells us. “Maybe in the future it will be better and the abandoned diaolou will be restored.”

Hoping to sneak our way inside one of the man- sions, we investigate every corner of the small area. Unfortunately, despite the village’s near-total aban- donment, every window and door on the decades-old homes remains bolted or locked shut. In the distance, the village’s lone diaolou, an impos- here, rises in isolation from its neighbors. Standing at ing five-story concrete tower and the tallest building reminded of Kaiping’s glory days, when its purpose was notthe baseto impress, of the fort-likebut to protect edifice the in allvillage’s its grandeur, residents. we’re While we have no way of being entirely sure, it’s pos- sible the abandoned tower may be the oldest diaolou of them all. “Opposite Canada Village is the oldest diaolou struc- ture, dating back to the ,” Deng tells us,

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EMMANUEL DEAN AND MIGUEL BOY Cofounders of Boomi Interview by Phoebe Kut

Emmanuel and Miguel are two young entrepreneurs who became friends back in Singapore during their boarding school days. They’ve now they’ve set their sights on creating a cleaner future by transforming the plastic consuming habits of individuals in Asia – one bamboo toothbrush at a time. Together Where are your materials sourced? they’ve founded Boomi, a Shanghai-based they might just be interested in the money, startup that provides starter-kits filled with Emmanuel: All our materials are sourced lo- afterwards you can explain the reasoning cally in China; we have multiple suppliers in behind the initiative and why we should be eco-friendly products, empowering people Zhejiang and some in Shenzhen as well. We avoiding single-use plastic. We actually have to find their balance between city living and only source locally, especially for our sham- a no waimai sustainability. poo bars because of China’s animal testing a lot of restaurants downstairs we encour- laws. Any foreign cosmetic products coming age people to policy eat together in the office. downstairs Since there’s or we into China need to be animal tested, but if bring our own food. How did you choose your flagship prod- produced locally they don’t need to be animal uct? tested. Do you currently work with any charities Emmanuel: or foundations? our bamboo toothbrushes. We thought tooth- Is the production team paid fair wages? Miguel: We were part of a charity brunch brushes wereThe a good first gateway product towe living sold weresus- Emmanuel: Yes, we have run an audit on organized by a professional women’s associa- almost all our suppliers. The thing is, for fair tion along with a foundation that works with morning (hopefully) is brush your teeth. And young Chinese women to give them better righttainably before because you go the to first sleep thing you you also do brush in the that, so we do our own audit on the factories. education. We’re happy to collaborate with your teeth. So, it’s kind of a constant re- Wewages hire there an external is no specific team tocertificate anonymously to verify au- minder, with a bamboo toothbrush you make dit them, and it gives us a very clear image on permanent partner. I’m interested in an or- at least a small difference. We also think it’s wages, water and electricity usage and waste ganizationcharities. Ideally, that focuses we would on cleaning love to find the aocean one of the simplest things to change because sorting, which is what we want the factories or with tree planting, with a focus on Asia. it doesn’t really affect much. The brushes are to do as well. We’ve received results for two But anything that is related to education has still unfortunately made of nylon, so the qual- of the factories which have been very good; always been close to our mission as well. ity of oral care is still identical to an Oral-B we’re still waiting for the rest of them. or Colgate toothbrush. It’s made with nylon Emmanuel: For me, I want to work with because there currently is no substitute. How do you incorporate green practices people who work on coral restorations. I’m a We could replace it with pig’s hair but that every day? huge fan of snorkeling and corals. Apparently would degrade hygiene, and we still want to 50% of Great Barrier Reef corals were lost in focus on hygiene. We also plan to expand to Emmanuel: In our company we have a the past couple of years, if I’m not mistaken. Southeast Asia and a lot of people there are ‘Boomi tax,’ where every time one of our team Muslim, so it would go against their religious members uses single-use plastic they have myboomi.io/ belief as well. Dentists still recommend that to pay RMB20 to whoever spots you. This is nylon is the way to go over pig’s hair. Nylon a challenge we have that we announce at our is the only plastic component in our entire events and to our friends, which teaches us to product line. be accountable. It’s also a good way to start a

conversation with people. Although, at first,

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UNDER THE LENS COVET Fashion Faux Pas Last month, after a recent string of gaffes Patriotic Purse by international fashion brands, a picture With several notable fashion brands coming of a Versace T-shirt went viral on Weibo - for listing the Special Administrative ing that challenges China’s sovereignty over Regions of Hong Kong and Macao as Hongunder Kong, fire this Macao month and for Taiwan, releasing online cloth re- countries independent from China. The tailer Moda Operandi is distinguishing itself T-shirt features city-country pairings in the Middle Kingdom with a more agree- such as Milan – Italy and Beijing – China, able accessory: a leather armpiece inspired while Hong Kong – Hong Kong and – Macao can also be seen. The up- by the Chinese flag. With a ticket price of ambassador, actress . Jiaxing BirkinRMB879,209, bag, but you it is probably certainly won’t a wise find fashion any Xingguang,roar cost Versace Yang’s its studio, first Chinesereleased brand a choicefriends for flashing celebrities the limited-edition looking to polish Hermès their statement on Weibo that they have cut image (we’re looking at you, ). all ties with Versace. As a citizen of the The crocodile-leather bags were sold exclu- People’s Republic of China, Yang wrote sively through the online retailer and have that she was “extremely indignant” about already sold out. the affair, adding, “The motherland’s sovereignty and territorial integrity are > modaoperandi.com sacred, inviolable and brook no division.” Less than an hour after the statement was posted on Weibo, the fashion house posted an apology, citing negligence and a design mistake. Although it did not identify the exact T-shirt from the viral picture, Versace did mention that the OVERHEARD

channels and “destroyed.” The company item has been removed from all official “Unfortunately the after errors in regards to China’s semi- autonomousis not the first territories. to come under Just a pressure day later, Coach and Givenchy, also apologized over Victoria’s Secret similar T-shirt designs undermining the ‘One China’ policy, with supermodel Liu Wen and singer from boy show won’t be band TFBoys announcing their decisions to part ways with the respective brands. happening this year”

…said former Victoria’s Secret Angel Shanina Shaik. The 28-year-old supermodel, who began modeling for the brand in 2011, revealed this during an interview with The Daily Telegraph earlier this month. Western commentators applauded the move, urging the company to rethink their policies and branding, and netizens on Weibo similarly chimed in, adding that “the quality of underwear and the quality of the show are not as good as in years past!” Many Chinese users felt that the new models look tired and do not have the ‘spark’ of the supermodels in the ’90s.

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Knives Out can be downloaded on iOS and Android devices.

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ow the capital of province, 300,000 Chinese soldiers and civilians were bru- Nanjing (which directly translates to talized and killed by the Imperial Japanese Army N‘southern capital’) is one of the most after the city’s capture in December 1937. In important cities in Chinese history. In fact, it is 1985, the municipal government of Nanjing built known as one of the Four Great Ancient Capitals a memorial hall dedicated to commemorating Looking for more expert of China (the other three are Beijing, Luoyang guides to China’s biggest cities and Xi’an). Located at the south bank of the Fast forward to the 21st century and Nanjing and hottest destinations? Yangtze River, Nanjing is the second largest city hasthe victimsbecome of a hubthis horrificfor technological event. develop- Scan the QR code now to in and home to one of the world’s ment. Several Chinese and multinational brands purchase our Explore China most important inland ports. – including Huawei, Lenovo, Ford and Samsung travel guide, which offers The burial sites of several important his- – have set up R&D centers in Nanjing, while insider tips, detailed city - quite a few prominent Chinese universities and guides and awesome day trips. ing father of the Republic of China, and Zhu research institutions are also based here. torical figures such as Sun Yat-sen, the found Many famous artists and poets have also Dynasty, are all located in the city – the latter passed through or lived in Nanjing in the past ofYuanzhang, which has the been first named emperor a UNESCO of the Ming World and its image as one of the most cultured cities Heritage Site. in the country carries on today. To the rest of the world, Nanjing is perhaps For tourists, there’s no shortage of temples, best known for one of the bloodiest events historical monuments, scenic lakes and parks, that occurred in modern history – the Nanjing galleries, museums and theaters to visit. Massacre. Over a six-week period, an estimated

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Nanjing Massacre Nanjing Presidential Memorial Hall Palace

The Nanjing municipal government built Built during the Ming Dynasty, the former Sitting on the southern base of Zijin Shan, this site to commemorate the hundreds presidential palace has been at the center Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum is the tomb for of thousands of Chinese citizens and of many important moments in China’s Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang (1328-1398 CE), military personnel who were killed by recent history. It is in this 90,000-square- the Imperial Japanese Army during World meter compound that Dr. Sun Yat-sen was Ming Dynasty. War II. Covering 28,000 square meters in sworn in as the president of the Republic the foundingConstruction father for and this first UNESCO ruler Worldof the Jiangdongmen (a mass burial site at the of China just after the Xinhai Revolution Heritage Site began in 1381 and was time of the tragedy), the Memorial Hall is in 1911. divided into three parts. At the outdoor ex- Engulfed in political turmoil for dec- Sacred Way leading up to the center of the hibit, the dates of the massacre ‘1937.12.13 ades, the palace was dormant until the mausoleumfinished by 1405. is one The of the 1,800-meter-long highlights of the - 1938.1’ and the estimated number of Kuomintang recaptured Nanjing in 1927 complex, where six pairs of sacred animal casualties are engraved on a large marble and Chiang Kai-shek used it as the gov- statues acting as the tomb’s guardians line wall. Inside, visitors can get a sense of the ernment headquarters until 1949. In the the entryway. Deep inside the main struc- - 1980s, it was transformed into the China ture of the mausoleum – beyond various ments, photographs and multimedia pres- Modern History Museum, where a variety sculptures, towers and pavilions – is the entations,horrific carnage and pay through their respects historical where docu of exhibits offer visitors a recap of major burial site for the Emperor and his wife, excavated skeletal remains of the victims events in China over the 20th century. . are displayed and honored.

Confucius Temple Dr. Sun Yat-sen’s Purple Mountain

Mausoleum Often referred to by its Chinese title, Located next to the Qinhuai River, the original Zijin Shan, Purple Mountain got its name Confucius Temple (Fuzimiao) in Nanjing was This mausoleum is the resting place because of the purple and golden clouds built in 1034 CE during the . that surround its peak at sunrise and After suffering extensive damage during the president and founding father of the sunset. Originally, the 447-meter-tall Japanese invasion in 1937, the temple was Republicof Sun Yat-sen of China. (1866-1925), Construction the onfirst the mountain was named Bell Mountain, but rebuilt in 1984 with funding from the local tomb started in 1926 and was completed was later renamed Mount Jiang during government. Its new design is inspired by in 1929. The entire 80,000-square-meter the period, in honor of architectural elements of the Ming and Qing complex is located at the foot of Zijin dynasties. Shan’s (Purple Mountain’s) second peak. believed to be haunting the peak. Its design incorporates both traditional an EasternCovering Han an official area of whose about 20spirit square was the largest Confucius statue in China, as well and modern elements. After climbing kilometers in the eastern suburbs of the as 38Inside gold, thesilver actual and temple,jade panels visitors that will depict find 392 steps, visitors will reach a tri-arched city, Purple Mountain is home to about famous stories of the philosopher’s life. While gate with four Chinese words written by 200 historic sites and scenic areas, in- the historical building was originally intended Dr. Sun (‘the world is commonwealth’) in- cluding Dr. Sun Yat-sen’s Mausoleum, as a place of worship for the Confucian phi- scribed on the lintel over the entrance. A Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum, Linggu Temple losophies, today’s Fuzimiao features a vibrant marble pavilion built by the Kuomintang and the Purple Mountain Observatory. mix of restaurants, bars, cafes and souvenir to commemorate their founding leader shops. sits right behind the gate, while the main - ble statue of Sun, is a few steps behind it. Sacrificial Hall, with a 4.6-meter-tall mar WWW.THATSMAGS.COM | SEPTEMBER 2019 | GZ | 21 AD AD ARTS Painting the Past Director Gu Xiaogang Gets Personal Talking About His Sweeping Family Epic, p30

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24 | GZ | SEPTEMBER 2019 | WWW.THATSMAGS.COM DRUMROLL - - - 25 - . 2019 | GZ | by Beyond Mediocrity Beyond Mediocrity WWW.THATSMAGS.COM | SEPTEMBER WWW.THATSMAGS.COM Could you explain why you chose this you why explain you Could the time in to it relates and how name that ap writing the songs were you which possible to me in the past. possible to In that sense I feel I guess! now, mediocrity right a bit beyond Listen to Mandopop played a key part in my childhood. part in my a key Mandopop played it. I would to I thought up listening I grew a I was Mandopop artist when be a proper a bit I’m doing something though kid. Even music some of my I phrase the way different, pop was City sure. sounds a bit Mandopop for music jour in my something that came in late me. but is so inspiring to ney, be a bit about the meaning talked You’ve hind the album title the album? pear on I self-assurance. for there The title is simply music school so the idea go to didn’t initially really musician/singer was of being a real up liking I grew though me, even distant for songs all my music and singing a lot. I wrote of process the tedious through and went me to allowed this album, which producing something that seemed im go beyond finally scanning the QR code: - - - - -

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to the ’80s. fashion inspirations, cross-cultural influences and taking it back fashion kudos. took We the chance to catch up with 9m88 to talk while music videos taken from the album have shown off her as a musician though. In terms of my hair, hair, of my In terms as a musician though. work with some cool and prestigious brands brands with some cool and prestigious work stores. I’m pretty happy that I have gotten to to gotten I have that happy I’m pretty stores. been a person who likes garments and thrift and thrift garments likes been a person who You studied fashion in Taipei. How impor How Taipei. in studied fashion You always a musician – I’ve change if I weren’t channel to share my emotions and ideas. my share channel to think that would one. I don’t day me from see music is as a therapeutic tool and a good tool see music is as a therapeutic important to quite were and fashion Style a medium to present myself. Now, the way I the way Now, myself. present a medium to a performer? and musician studying music in the US, I treated it only as it only music in the US, I treated studying package as a overall your to is style tant at music in a really different way. Before Before way. different at music in a really Since leaving Taiwan, I guess I began to look to I guess I began Taiwan, Since leaving connected with Taiwan? with Taiwan? connected and instrumentation I wanted. When every and instrumentation I wanted. remain do you way in what music, and and producers about what colors, chords chords colors, about what and producers your the US influenced in has living How process, I started to talk to my collaborators collaborators my talk to to I started process, recorded. hard. After the initial lyric-and-song-making the initial lyric-and-song-making After hard. a studio and to I went prepared, thing was in Brooklyn trying to stir my brain juice brain stir my trying to in Brooklyn I literally locked myself up in my apartment up in my myself locked I literally product? product? before you were happy with the finished with the finished happy were you before take to write the songs and produce them produce the songs and write to take This is your debut album. How long did it long How debut album. This is your unpredictable maelstrom of sound. She dropped her debut album, Beyond Mediocrity sensibilities for jazz, funk and Mandopop to create an past few years, releasing singles that combined her various Taiwan singer 9m88 has been impressively active over the Mandopop and Embracing the ’80s the Embracing and Mandopop Grogan By Bryan The Taiwan Musician Talks Fashion, Talks Musician The Taiwan 9M88 COLLAGE TRANSCRIBED COMING TO A THEATER NEAR YOU “The best animation of the year. No, the best film of the year. The maturity of the drama should make

SEPT Lion King kneel down and 6 call it dad” Free Solo That’s what one Douban user said after seeing News surfaced that this exhilarating climbing Nezha Nezha racked up a phenomenal end of July, and we couldn’t be more delight- RMB4.27, a Chinese billion and animated climbed film to andNo. 3the on movie the list hit of of China’s the summer. most successful Finishing cinemaahead of film had scored a cinema release date at the releasesall-comers ever, for as a numberof August of 24. weeks at the box office, Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, follows the dar- inged. Theattempt film, by made storied by couple climber Elizabeth Alex Honnold Chai to climb the mighty El Capitan rock face with- out any ropes or support (i.e. free soloing). With rock-climbing on the rise throughout Hao China, and with the sport set to appear at One of the surprises of the summer, rock music the Tokyo Summer Olympics in 2020, we’re talent show The Big Band came to an end at sure this will be a hit. Incidentally, another the beginning of August. Famed Beijing band - New Pants walked away with the top prize, tor Li Rengang, The Climbers, will hit cinemas followed by Miserable Faith in second place, aroundclimbing the film, country this time on September from Chinese 30. direc Hedgehog in third, Click #15 in fourth and

to represent the beginning of a new level of famePenicillin for many in fifth. of theseThe end bands, of the most show of seemswhom have been putting together excellent albums and playing livehouses around the country for years. Garnering an impressive 8.7 out of 10 on Douban, The Big Band has successfully introduced many of these bands to the general

SEPT 6 populace for the first time. Cold Pursuit Bu Hao Liam Neeson has enjoyed a phenomenally Shanghai Fortress crashed and burned on its successful career thus far, with hits includ- opening weekend at cinemas in China last ing Schindler’s List, Star Wars Episode I and Batman Begins. While it appears that the would build on the success of The Wandering scope for new movies tropes in Hollywood Earthmonth. While many anticipated that the film is contracting, Neeson is again revisiting his opening weekend, behind smash-hit animation role as a grieving, vengeful father in this story Nezha, ,it and finished raking fourth in just at over the RMB100box office mil on- its of a snowplow driver and Citizen of the Year - broiled in controversy earlier this year after lion, significantly less than the film’s RMB370 racistrecipient comments turned vigilante.made by NeesonThe film in was an interem - wakemillion of budget. negative The netizen film’s reaction. director, OnTeng the Hutao, view, and has a cumulative score of 6.2 out of apologized for the film’s shortcomings in the 10 on IMDb. ratings stood at 3.3 out of 10, with more than 80%Monday of voters following giving the it film’s two stars release, or less. Douban

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SINO CELEB Ma Yili The name Ma Yili has been on the lips of Chinese gossipers, online

and offline alike, as news broke of the actress’ high-profile divorce forgivefrom actor him, Wen and Zhang was subsequently at the end of lauded July. Just in fiveChinese years press ago, asreports an of her husband’s infidelity were brought to light, but Ma chose to Early Autonomy know about the Shanghai-born actress. independent and strong woman. Here are five things you should the young age of 15 when she became a mem- Maber wasof a abledance to troupe financially for Shanghai support herselfTV. at

Role Model for Chinese Actresses Acclaimed for portraying optimistic roles in UNICEF Ambassador Chinese TV dramas, Ma, who has a reputation The mother of two and enthusiastic when it comes to as a hard worker, is seen as something of a role public welfare, Ma was appointed by the United Nations model within show biz. That reputation landed International Children’s Emergency Fund as its Chinese advo- her an invite to meet former Russian president cate in 2015. Dmitry Medvedev at a youth forum in the Russian Embassy in Beijing. High-Profile Divorce Ma’s Weibo post about her recent divorce made headlines in ‘Free Lunch’ Program China and received over 2 million likes on the microblogging Since 2011, Ma has been the spokeswoman for the ‘Free site. Lunch’ program, which “supports poor school children who can’t afford their lunch, with a daily donation of RMB4.”

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escribing the exoticism of the Take for example ‘Gallowdance,’ a the midst of his well-documented battle Levant and the industrious regal- 2013 track on which Iceglass sings with against himself and his vices. Dity of Germany, the name Lebanon such baritone doom that you can feel the One aspect of their disagreement Hanover is immediate in its sensuosity. energy of the notes vibrating somewhere with modern life is their consistency The duo who comprise the band are around your diaphragm. The spareness of when it comes to releasing physical for- about as poetic and mysterious as the early Joy Division tracks, which used bare mats. Sure, this is one way that musicians students in Donna Tartt’s The Secret pizzicato strings and blunt drumbeats, make a buck via their online platforms, History, dressed in black and beholden rings out in the background of the track, but it’s also a heavy investment, usually to old literature and goth rock in equal drawing the listener to consider the undertaken by the record label, and it parts. emptiness that surrounds the music, the shows their commitment to old, near- The name actually comes from a shadows of the song, if you will. obsolete formats. town in New Hampshire in the US, a state “It was the purpose of Lebanon “We have both collected vinyls for a known for its rolling greenery and ski Hanover to create minimal somber music long time and no other medium can com- resorts. While their music tends to sum- like in the early ’80s,” Iceglass says, “It pete with the solid sound of a vinyl. I now mon such labels as cold wave, gothic and suits our dark age more than any happy own an old car with a ’90s tape deck, so nostalgic, the band’s singer and guitarist plastic high-pitched pop.” even tapes I listen to quite frequently. It’s Larissa Iceglass feels more at home in Part of the impetus for that track nostalgic, but we are living it,” Iceglass the embrace of nature. “For me, lovely came from literature. As Iceglass tells says about her fondness for old physical humans, nature and music are life savers, us, “I was obsessed with the word gal- formats. taking me into different territories away gen from Christian Morgenstern, which What does all of this tell us about the from the modern and fast times,” she tells evolved into ‘Gallowdance’ eventually.” band Lebanon Hanover? They are old us. The word, which is German for ‘gallows,’ - Iceglass met her partner-in-music, is taken from Morgenstern’s 1905 col- ingly modern society. The intrigue of William Maybelline, over the internet. lection of poems Galgenlieder (Gallows suchsouls a fighting band deciding to survive to leapin an into increas China How very modern. Conversing through Songs). is tantalizing. How will they respond to music recommender website LastFM, To characterize the pair as simply Shenzhen, that massive concrete city in they initially sent each other ’80s gloomy, gothic intellectuals would be the South? YouTube videos, establishing their shared inaccurate, or at least misleading. As they Whatever happens, we are sure that love of music. Eventually Iceglass took the have expressed in previous interviews, trip to Maybelline’s home in Sunderland their experience in China into new music. in North England and the rest, as they say, with fans, expressing themselves through Whothey’ll knows, maintain perhaps and find the aintention way to work in is history. songthey findand themselvesphotography. at Theyhome recently and at ease The duo’s music strays from the even started an Instagram account. That As Iceglass tells us, their commitment to formulas adopted by many modern musi- surely means that they embrace certain documentingheading east is the to worldfind new around inspiration. them is cians. Iceglass tells us, “Rawness is beau- aspects of modernity, right? endless. tiful. I cherish imperfections in all walks “I am inspired by the countryside “We always carry our pens and jour- of life. Modern music is so synthetic and nals with us, as well as our analogue cam- they use autotune and it’s so digital. My me more creative nutrition than an over- heart beats in an analogue, warm, imper- populatedwheat fields touristic and vineyards. city,” Iceglass That givestells us. hours a day, really.” fect way.” In that sense, we’re not quite sure how eras,” she says, before confirming “It’s 24 As is stated on their Facebook page, well the duo will adjust to China’s urban Sept 8, 8.30pm; RMB130 students, RMB150 “nostalgia is negation, sadness is rebel- sprawl, although we are sure they’ll en- presale, RMB180 at the door. B10 Live, north sdie joy the DIY aspects of music here in the of Building C2, OCT-Loft, Xiangshan Dong Jie, Nanshan District 南山区香山东街华侨城创意文化园北区 brand of sadness, which almost feels like Middle Kingdom. C2栋北侧 (showstart.com) disappointmentlion.” Their music with confirms the present that their state own of Their label, Fabrika Records, is based world affairs, shakes with a sound that is in Greece, the home of Pan, the god of rebellious, that cuts like a knife through the wild, and Arcadia, the same place plastic, synthesized pop. that Pete Doherty was searching for in

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Director Gu Xiaogang Gets Personal Talking About His Sweeping Family Epic By Bryan Grogan

welling in the Fuchun Mountains’ ers attending their mother’s birthday party. is a scroll painting by Huang trials and tribulations of a family struggling The celebrations establish the relationships ‘DGongwang, one of the four masters toRiver. come Gu’s to epicterms 150-minute with societal film changes follows that the between the main characters; the intimacy of the Yuan Dynasty. He began painting when have become rife in China over the past 20 he was 50, creating the above-mentioned years, and which are growing in the buildup heartbreak that will follow. Each of the four masterpiece between 1348 and 1350, just to the 2022 Asian Games, set to be staged in brothersand conflicts represents that they a different share set viewpoint us up for the four years before his death and when he was Hangzhou. upon which the audience hangs. in his 80s. Depicting the gorgeous scenery of “The river banks in Fuyang are now full “The eldest brother represents the life the Hangzhou countryside, the scroll recalls a of high-rises and cars. We wanted to try to of an ordinary man, the second represents more peaceful time in the city’s history. paint this contemporary picture and interact poetry and distance, the third represents the with the scene from 600 years ago through underground and the fourth represents the same name uses the painting to contrast this era we are in,” Gu explains. “Through these distantRising period director with Guthe Xiaogang’s social upheavals film of ofthe present, in the fast and complex era of an in- four different careers, we were able to pre- his hometown in Fuyang district, Hangzhou, formationfilm. We also economy, wanted and to place to inspire tradition people in the to sent a complete social landscape.” which lies in the shadow of the Fuchun seek comfort from inside,” Gu tells us. mountains and on the banks of the Fuchun -

The film opens with four grown-up broth

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Gu’s connection to these characters, and to the setting in which they are placed, is PAST personal. “My hometown is in Fuyang,” he says. “When I was a child, my parents ran a restaurant, but in the past few years it was demolished as the city went through urban development changes. I wanted to create a

thepiece city’s that ongoing reflected changes this period were of very time. stimulat I went - ing,back from to Fuyang past to to present.” do research for the film, and Shot in a style reminiscent of documen-

shots that track life in motion on the Fuchun River,tary film, Gu usesexperimenting the camera with to focus extended and frame long- certain moments so as to heighten our inti- macy with the characters. He drafted friends

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Floating Signifiers by Shii

Machine for a group of demos earlier this year. While that project consisted largely of minimal- istWe tunes, first came Shii’s across solo work Shii whenhere with she teamedMerrie Recordsup with Nocturnes’is full of glitchy David effects, Carey effervescent on Lost Memory syn- thesizers and robust vocals. The singer and producer has professed a love for Icelandic maestro Bjork, which goes a long way to contextualizing Shii’s experimentation with both her music and her image. Floating Signifiers opens with its longest track, ‘Dream 2.’ Keyboard and muf-

these three creates the kind of effect you might hear on an M83 song, with the music ready to explodefled vocals and combine soar away with into barely the atmosphere. constrained synthesizersWhile lines like to set“Everyone the tone. is Theweak” intermingling may seem like of a rebuke, here they sound more like reassurance. Following on from this, tracks like ‘No Light’ and ‘Memory Pops’ are full of deeply emotional vocals and lyrics. These combine beautifully with the bright and bulbous notes, while synthesizers at times replicate the tantalizing sensation of violin strings, to create an album that’s addictive in the way that love and romance can be.

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They Slipped Away From My Mind Just Like This by Dear Eloise - band and wife duo, made up of Yang Haisong and Sun Xia, are in stellar form yet again, openingDear Eloise up thereturn album for theirwith ‘Dreamsfifth album of Midwith Summer,’ this 10-track a fuzzy effort shoegaze on Maybe track Mars. bursting The huswith romance. On ‘Across The Time’ they play with tonal effects, with the rhythm of the song rocking back and forth on multiple fronts. The combination of Sun’s bright vocals and Yang’s crunching, menacing guitar remind us of the sounds one might hear on an Asobi Seksu re- cord. Dear Eloise present more than a bit of dream and noise pop here, leaving us almost reluctant to use the shoegaze label that has become so proliferate in China of late. The atonal nature of Xia’s vocals on ‘River of Lethe’ drip with a certain amount of apathy, while a bright sliding guitar makes itself known somewhere in the midst of the band’s wall of sound. Near the end of the record, the duo employ an acoustic guitar and a buzzsaw on ‘Escape’ for a track that is as full of sensuosity and thought-provoking sounds as any other on this album.

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Functory 3 by FunctionLab Functory 3 comes at a special time for Hangzhou label FunctionLab. With a string of ex- cellent records in the bag in 2019, including GG Lobster’s Punk Rock Karaoke and Guan’s Tuning Forks, the label couldn’t have picked a better time to revisit their growing roster of artists and collaborators. Favorites like Mice and XHANKONKON are again present, bringing spooky, glitch-heavy and deafeningly violent, drum-heavy tracks respectively. Elsewhere, however, we’re delighted to see Zean, Yikii and Laughing Ears join the fray. With her debut album Tidal Effect just released on Beijing’s Ran Music, Laughing Ears’ ‘Polymorphic Reality’ resembles a horrifying game of Tetris, with sounds falling like chunky blocks and interspersed with tempo shifts and the occasional scream. ‘Rivaldo Top 10 Goals’ is a typically quirky jungle track from GG Lobster, that makes use of wild track sam- ples, drums and tribal vocals samples that match up with the forested plains of the Amazon in Rivaldo’s native Brazil. Elsewhere, Mr.Peña is equally tribal, mystical in his use of drums on ‘X-Akii12,’ while horn samples and thin drum beats add extra intrigue. Where this com- worthypilation ofexceeds playing the again first and two again. in the Functory series is as described above. The wealth of sounds, genres and influences on show make this a stellar listen Scan the QR code to listen

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n 1598, Ming Dynasty authori n 1598, Ming of Spanish a team ties allowed set Manila to from traders up shop in China’s Pearl River River Pearl up shop in China’s post trade Delta. The short-lived is believed of the Spanish Empire some been located have to I in the vicinity of Macao, a where settlement that was Portuguese activ trade buzzing with regional Unraveling the story of Spain’s abandoned abandoned of Spain’s the story Unraveling the southern to Qi’ao Island is connected Today, coast of But could a small island off the eastern land’s only outpost of the Spanish Empire? And what And what Empire? outpost of the Spanish land’s only abandon the site led the settlement’s inhabitants to its establishment? We’ve after years less than two historians to spoken and archives, books over pored Qi’ao Island in the hope of shedding visited and even his of South China’s chapter on this captivating light tory. ity at the time. While the Spanish newcomers were were the Spanish newcomers ity at the time. While nearly for in the region establish themselves able to their from driven eventually were they years, two and evolved port, rose Piñal, as tensions named El em European the two conflict between bloody into East. in the Far pires is a difficult task and many outpost in South China for be known never may aspects of El Piñal’s story accounts historical of varying certain, the result line of the conflicting parties. This fascinating from difficult due more is made even research historical with certainty person knows that no living the fact to no clear location. While there’s the settlement’s exact about and historians consensus among researchers – of El Piñal still exist – if they the remains where one hypothesized came across we located, be may that seems plausible: Qi’ao spot during our research Island. six-lane of via a 1,486-meter-long, metropolis for case a convincing The island presents bridge. its geographic of El Piñal due to site the modern-day and its Guangzhou and Macao location between particular type of foliage: of a very groves rumored (or piñal, in Spanish). pine trees main the Chinese host to played have Zhuhai really in South China in South The Spanish Empire Spanish The cover

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The Portuguese didn’t learn of Calls Spain’s new outpost in Guangdong until April of the for following year Canton uring the 16th century, the Far East was a far differ- ent place. The Ming Dynasty ruled over the Middle DKingdom, the Japanese Empire was busy invading the Korean Peninsula and the Spanish were gallivanting through the archipelago we now call the Philippines, colonizing the is- lands’ inhabitants. The Portuguese were also in the ‘neighborhood,’ setting up shop in their newly leased settlement in South China – Macao. By the late 1500s, after humble beginnings as a small trade post, the town was transforming into a regional trade and com- merce hub. This, coupled with the city’s strategically significant location, gave the Portuguese a monopoly over trade in China in the 16th century. And so, right before the turn of the century, when the Spanish decided to voyage across the South China Sea from Manila to Canton, their Iberian counterparts were gravely con- cerned. In 1598, the governor of the Philippines sent a ship cap- tained by D. Juan Zamudio to China’s southern coast, with the likely intention of establishing a direct channel between Spain’s Southeast Asian colony and Canton. In his paper ‘Enemies at the Gate: Macao, Manila and the “Pinhal Episode,”’ Paulo Jorge de Sousa Pinto refers to the purpose of the trip – as well as the effect of the events that followed it – as “somewhat shadowy” given the contradictory accounts. There’s one thing we know for certain, though: Zamudio managed to convince officials in Canton to allow him and his convoy to settle along the coast of Guangdong province and establish a Spanish trading post in China. However, the exact lo- cation of the settlement is a matter of scholarly debate and there According to an article by John Villier, titled ‘Silk and Silver: cover are multiple theories as to where the Spanish lived out their Macau, Manila and Trade in the China Seas During the Sixteenth short tenure in the Pearl River Delta. Century,’ upon hearing the news, Macao told Chinese officials 37 that the Spanish were “robbers and insurrectionaries who raise The events that transpired over the next two years, referred story revolts in the kingdoms they enter.” However, China may very to as the ‘Pinhal episode,’ [pinhal is the Portuguese equivalent of well have ignored the claims, as they did not take action to re- piñal] would ultimately shape geopolitics and trade in the region move the Spanish from the settlement. for years to come. At the time, Macao was a Portuguese ‘informal settlement’ Prior to the Pinhal episode, Spain and Portugal had signed that was considered “the exclusive gateway for the Europeans the Treaty of Zaragoza in 1529, which divided newly discovered to access China,” Dr. Pinto explains in his paper ‘Manila Macao lands between the two empires along an artificial line drawn and Chinese networks in South China Sea: adaptive strategies of through the Moluccan Islands. Everything west of the line was cooperation and survival (sixteenth-to-seventeenth centuries).’ fair game for Portugal, while the land and seas to the east were Having first settled in Macao in 1513, the Portuguese were open to Imperial Spain. granted permission to anchor ships and build warehouses there Although the Philippines lay west of this decided line, the in 1535, and eventually obtained a coveted lease from Beijing in Spanish decided to colonize the archipelago anyways, in the ex- 1557. pectation that Portugal would not protest due to the islands’ lack While Macao was experiencing the thrills of success, El of spices. By the time Manila came into its own, a royal prohibi- Piñal’s fate was never guaranteed. In retrospect, the settlement tion on commerce between Macao and Manila was in place. has been regarded by some as an experiment that was “destined “There was a royal prohibition (repeated throughout the to fail.” For starters, Portuguese sources note that the Spanish years), but there was also a long distance between Madrid and were not authorized to settle along the Chinese coast, nor could China. Practical issues sometimes overlapped official orders they build warehouses or step onto the Chinese mainland – once because it took a long time for the news to reach Europe and trading was completed, they were expected to leave with the return, meanwhile it could be possible to attempt a local suc- next monsoon. (Spanish sources contradict this notion, claim- cess that could reverse the orders,” Dr. Pinto tells us via email. ing that Chinese authorities allowed them to come and settle, as He goes on to note that the Portuguese operating in Macao had a noted earlier.) tendency to obey royal orders, while the Spanish in Manila were Macao’s uneasiness to the concept of a Spanish colony more likely to disregard them. in their backyard is well documented. And while D. Paulo de Although it’s not clear the exact date in 1598 that Zamudio Portugal, the highest-ranking authority in Macao at the time, had and his men arrived in El Piñal, the Portuguese didn’t learn of prepared military action against Zamudio upon learning of his Spain’s new outpost in Guangdong until April of the following arrival, he was persuaded by others in the city to hold off out of year. fears of possible repercussions from the Chinese side. But what happened next would ultimately lead to bloodshed. c over

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story In the ensuing months after Dasmarinas’ arrival, life on s Zamudio’s trade post experiment was underway in El Piñal was anything but perfect, with the Spanish unable Guangdong, a man named D. Luis Perez Dasmarinas to acquire a ship from Macao and the outpost’s inhabitants had begun a voyage to Cambodia, with his armada A facing increasing hostility from the neighboring enclave. A leaving the coast of Manila in summer 1598. The mission was letter sent to Dasmarinas by Francisco de Castilla, an El Piñal meant to bring reinforcements and missionaries to the region, dweller on a reconnaissance mission in Macao, demonstrated per the request of the king of Cambodia. However, the oft- that aggression towards the Spanish crew had reached new turbulent waters of the South China Sea decided on a different heights. Dr. Pinto quotes Castilla’s letter as stating: “I talked fate for Dasmarinas and his 200-man expeditionary force. with the captain and he told me that, since your Lordship did After getting caught in a storm, the Spanish fleet was scat- not leave with D. Juan [Zamudio], they refuse to supply even tered at sea, with Dasmarinas and part of the fleet ending water and they will try to harm you as much as possible.” up somewhere off the South China coast in the vicinity of an Castilla goes so far as to write, “they would set you on fire.” increasingly hostile Macao. Pinto notes that Canton authori- Although Dasmarinas had apparently fixed his frigate, he ties allowed Dasmarinas and his men to relocate to the port avoided the governor of Manila’s order to return from China. of Piñal and link up with Zamudio. This is the juncture where And by this time, the Portuguese in Macao had set up a full the Pinhal episode becomes even more muddled and con- blockade of El Piñal. fused. Meanwhile in Macao, Dasmarinas and the Spanish had a Still intending to complete his original voyage to small support group, namely the Franciscans and Dominicans. Cambodia, Dasmarinas sent a request to Manila asking for However, within the walls of the city, showing an inkling more men and ships, although his pleas fell on deaf ears. of support for their Iberian brethren on the neighboring Meanwhile, if relations between Macao and El Piñal were island could have possibly cost them their lives. With grow- tense prior to Dasmarinas arrival, you could imagine how ing pressure both externally and internally to withdraw to much the additional newcomers made Paulo de Portugal’s the Philippines, Dasmarinas and his men left El Piñal on blood boil. November 16, 1600, with a frigate and a junk. However, in Paulo de Portugal, who was the representative of the what could be noted as a blunder typical of Dasmarinas, the Portuguese crown throughout the Pinhal episode, arrived in ships caught gnarly winds that sent them, once again, back Macao only 15 days prior to Zamudio’s frigate anchoring in on the South China coast. The frigate, which was in the better Piñal, putting him smack in the middle of the inter-Iberian condition of the two vessels, was told to make way for Manila conflict in the Far East. while the captain and part of his crew stayed on the junk, waiting for a better time to return. time later. The Spaniards took shelter on This spelled the end of Spain’s foray Lamapacau, a small island near Macao into China; although discussions were had (the island has since become part of a in the following decades of a return to the larger island as sedimentary deposits port, none were ever followed through. bridged the gap). Although they were The year after the Spanish departure authorized to return to El Piñal by local from El Piñal, a Dutch ship arrived off the Chinese authorities, Dasmarinas opted coast of Macao, mistaking it for the former not to offend Macao with such an action, Spanish settlement. Under pressure from even attempting to make an informal city residents, Paulo de Portugal signed off agreement with Paulo de Portugal to on the execution of 17 captive Dutchmen compensate Macao by way of favorable – a move that exceeded his own authority, trade in Manila. since he required approval from the vice- Dasmarinas’ negotiations, though, roy to enact such an order. The murdered did not bear fruit, and two months after Dutch explorers are viewed by many as he and his crew departed from El Piñal they were attacked by a heavily armed incident fundamentally changed the rela- Portuguese armada from Macao. The vol- tionshipthe final actbetween of the the Pinhal Portuguese episode, and and the the ley lasted several hours, and killed an Dutch in Asia for the next 60 years. unspecified number of Dasmarinas’ crew. However, the surviving Spanish managed to flee from the Portuguese’s grip, tak- ing shelter in the bay of Guanghai before eventually returning to Manila a short cover

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40 story t’s nearing noon when we board a bus in northeastern Zhuhai to take us to one of the alleged sites of the forgotten IPiñal and it’s a swelteringly 34 degrees Celsius – perhaps hotter – in the unrelenting South China sun. Our destination: The lush and verdant island of Qi’ao, which is situated roughly 125 kilometers southeast of Guangzhou and just off the coast of Zhuhai. Our fascination with the small island, which covers less than 24 square kilometers, can be traced back to a simple translation. In his 1983 book Fidalgos in the Far East 1550-1770, historian Charles Boxer notes the word ‘pinhal’ is the Iberian word for pinewood or a pine forest and that the term was often used by both the Spanish and Portuguese as a place name. Boxer’s work cites J.M. Braga, who identified El Piñal as “the anchorage of Tonkawan at Kumsing-mun on the east coast of the island of Chungshan (Heungshan).” As Professor John Newsome Crossley points out in Hernando de los Prios Coronel and the Spanish Philippines in the Golden Age, the island of Heungshan is today known as Qi’ao Island. To make matters more intriguing: The island is also known to have pine trees. While, prior to setting out we are aware that the odds of finding something concrete to prove Zamudio and Dasmarinas had settled on this particular plot of land over 400 years ago is unlikely, the aforementioned narrative seems compelling enough to warrant investigation. After arriving at the island’s northernmost bus stop, we wan- der over to a nearby bike rental stall to acquire transportation

for our adventure. cover “I was born here in 1982, so you can guess how old I am,” Lan, the shop attendant, tells us. After hearing the theory of the 41 forgotten Spanish trading post that may once have called the It’s an impressive site, but it does little to answer our ques- story island home, she responds matter-of-factly: “If you say so, it’s tions about the island’s possible connection to the Piñal story. probably true. I wouldn’t know anything about that, but perhaps Although the notion that other foreign powers ended up here my parents would, they were born in the ’30s.” just a century and a half after the Spanish departed gives Qi’ao We broach the idea of bringing up the topic with her parents, another breath of life – there has to be more. but she shoots it down and instead recommends visiting Baishi Professor Crossley notes that on the southeastern coast of Qi’ao Jie. “There’s a memorial there in honor of the time that we re- Island there is what appears to be a grove of pine trees nearly 1 sisted the British invasion in the mid-19th century. It may be of kilometer in length. He came to this conclusion based on analysis of some help to you.” Google Earth images, but it seems worthy of a visit regardless. The bike ride along Qi’ao Dadao is in many ways reminis- Roughly a 10-minute bike ride from the Baishi Jie memorial cent of Florida’s section of I-75 that crosses the everglades and is a steep hill topped by a shaded pagoda. From the top, it’s a it’s the most direct course from the bike rental stall to Baishi treacherous 10-minute descent down on foot. Nearing the base Jie’s resistance memorial. After approximately five minutes of of the hill, we notice what appears to be several military bar- traversing the route, our journey is halted by the sight of a lone racks and a tent with a prominent red cross. Just beyond that, pine tree resolutely erected on a hilltop on the other side Qi’ao the coastline is visible, and it isn’t hard to imagine 16th century Mangrove Wetland Park. Spanish ships anchored off the shore. Despite our best attempts to reach the tree, however, it is A decrepit tourist map along the route points the way to the blocked behind a building surrounded by bodies of water. When ocean and we forge on in hopes of finding the fabled pine grove asked about the tree, two security guards stationed nearby take Crossley spotted on satellite images. on confused looks and state they know nothing about the tow- ering piece of foliage. We hop back on our noble, two-wheeled Upon reaching a makeshift parking lot near the sea, a voice steed and make way for Baishi Jie. calls out “Hey, you’re not supposed to be here.” A man in military fatigues informs us we’re not allowed to be in the area and he The memorial that Lan described is precisely where she said points us in the direction to leave. it is, and is proudly composed of a group of adults and children positioned behind a cannon – one of the men blowing a conch That, unfortunately, is as close as we came to the pine grove shell while holding a rifle. Beyond the commemorative site to of Qi’ao Island. We leave with no new revelations, but with a solid imperial resistance is the old fort, where Qi’ao’s villagers suc- appreciation that the island – Spanish trading post or not – played cessfully fended off British and American intruders on the island a role in the imperial power struggles that plagued China until the in 1833, prior to the First Opium War. dawn of the PRC. pers of the early 19th century.” Professor Crossley also added that “accord- ing to the Chinese Ming Dynasty records, El Piñal is an island. It, therefore, seems most likely

that WhileEl Piñal scholars can be identifiedalso argue as that Qi’ao El PiñalIsland.” could have existed near the mouth of Xijiang, west of Macao, there are reasons why this likely wasn’t the case. For one, settling west of Macao would have put the Spanish in a very isolated and vulnerable position, being further from Canton. Pinto points out that Paulo de Portugal didn’t attack Dasmarinas and his men until they were in Lampacau, which could pos- sibly hint that El Piñal was closer to Canton than Xijiang. The distance between El Piñal, Macao and Canton are also key factors. One par- ticular knock against the theory that Qi’ao Island was the home of Spanish trade post: A 1564 map of the area places El Piñal 10 to 12 leagues from Macao and 20 to 30 leagues from modern-day Guangzhou, which would likely pin the site further north than present- day Qi’ao Island. Of course, there is also the strong pos- sibility that the original site of El Piñal is a

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er River Delta. Lingdingyang Bay, the largest estuary of the Pearl River system, has been hile we only encountered a single 42 changing since prehistoric times, and even pine tree on our visit to the island, story more so in recent centuries as a result of according to multiple scholars, W rapid urban growth and rampant exploita- Qi’ao is – or was – home to numerous pine tion of marine resources, among other fac- groves. tors. When we solicit Dr. Pinto’s thoughts on Jack M. Braga, a historian who once lived where he thinks the settlement might be, he in the area, believed Qi’ao Island was the lo- responds, “My opinion is that El Piñal is a cation of El Piñal because it is “the only place now-missing island between Macao and the between the Bocca Tigris [the Spanish term Bocca Tigris.” And with the drastic changes for where the Pearl River and South China to Lingdingyang Bay, including the dimin- Sea meet] and Macao where a grove of pine ishing surface water area and rising water trees has flourished for centuries, and it was levels, El Piñal may simply be lost beneath also used by the English and American clip- the surface.

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The revelation that M’eat is opening a second location in Guangzhou; the revival of Xingsheng Lu, with a seemingly endless array of new spots opening on the street; lobster rolls rolling into Haizhu; plant- WE TRY IT based meat moon cakes; and the arrival of KFC’s notorious ‘Double Down’ in China. KFC’s Double Down Sandwich

We’re done with: Like McDonald’s beloved McRib and and a similarly troubling fat content, maybe Starbucks’ Pumpkin Spice Latte (that some KFC should add a disclaimer to the box (“talk

Instagram feed), the notorious Double Down is safe for you”), and yes, it would probably sandwichgirl named at Becky KFC has definitely never had posted a permanent on your beto yourresponsible doctor tofor find KFC out restaurants if the Double to have Down an place on the restaurant’s US menu. But when - it does show up, the internet collectively plications, we feel that the Colonel has really loses its damn mind. on-siteoutdone defibrillator. himself on thisBut one.despite the health im Hot on the heels of the fast food joint’s new meatless veggie burger (interesting follow up, KFC), Yum Brands’ beloved fried Who’s eating them: future gastric bypass Ice cream melting faster than we can eat chicken franchise has released its own take recipients it; couples-only Qixi events and deals last on the “all meat, no bun” monster of a sand- Price: RMB23 month; bones in our duck burger, looking wich in China, featuring bacon, spicy sauce at you 435 (page 51); and the fact that and a juicy slice of pineapple all contained Mid-Autumn Festival moon cakes will de- between two greasy slabs of deep-fried chick- stroy our diet routine this month. en that replace a traditional bun. Packaged inside a shiny silver box with big, bold text, KFC clearly wants you to know that it means business: This sandwich is not for the faint of heart – literally. The hot sauce was mild and zesty, and perfectly complemented the sweet pineapple

atfor best. a pleasant yin-yang of flavor. The bacon, on the otherThankfully, hand, thewas two a bit all-meat floppy and ‘buns’ mediocre were crunchy and delicious – gotta love them 11 herbs and spices – and fortunately not sopping with grease as some fried foods tend to be. Sure, with a full day’s worth of sodium

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Moon cakes can easily be considered a culinary highlight in China. Boasting an eclectic history involving hidden messages and combat, these carb-heavy treats are used to celebrate Mid- Autumn Festival, with flavors like lotus paste, red bean paste and salted egg yolk generally reigning supreme. However, there is a new generation of moon cakes – with bold and bizarre flavors permeating the industry. Here are a few that caught our eyes and could make for a fun gift for your family, friends or, best of all, yourself.

CRAYFISH MOON CAKES Everyone loves a little xiaolongxia action, right? Well, you may not have known that these freshwater crustaceans also come in moon cake form. You can find these ‘small lobster’ cakes – not to be confused with the famous Boston crab cakes – on Taobao. So, if you have a pengyou who loves crayfish, show them how much you care this Mid-Autumn Festival with this unique moon cake set.

Available on Taobao

SPICY CHICKEN MOON CAKES So what if KFC specializes in fried chicken? If they want to make moon cakes, they’ll make goddamn moon cakes. With two savory and sweet flavors – spicy chicken and nuts and golden lava custard – the fast food joint has their own unique Mid-Autumn Festival desserts. While a traditional moon cake set tends to come in a decadent box, this fast food version comes in a classic bucket (which lights up).

Available on Taobao

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DURIAN MOON CAKES

Whether you eat durian on the reg or can’t stand the pungent fruit, you should probably try a durian moon cake even if it’s just to say that you have. Like with most durian-infused products, these moon cakes won’t have the same fetid smell so widely acknowledged among people with functioning noses. But you can expect the taste to be comparable to your typical durian snack. However, don’t assume this treat will offer all – or any – of the health benefits associated with the fruit. After all, you’re eating cake.

Available on Taobao

OREO MOON CAKES

This one you might well have seen, heard of or even tasted be- fore. While Oreo has been dabbling in the moon cake game for a few years now, we keep expecting the quality to improve. Has it? Meh. But with flavors like cocoa cream, pineapple, strawberry and chocolate, they’re the perfect substitute for those looking to celebrate without giving the traditional cakes a go.

Available on Taobao

OATLY MOON CAKES

The company that created a Chinese word for ‘plant-based milk’ has moon cakes. Go figure! But seriously, their four-piece moon cake set, featuring flavors like cranberry and oatmeal, Caesar and black truffle as well as two mung bean-laced des- serts, are a welcome addition to the fraternity of celestial cakes. The treats come paired with the vegan company’s fa- mous oat milk, so there’s a little extra in it for you.

Available on thMart

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CHOI CHI COLLEGE Cocktails and Cha Shao By Ryan Gandolfo

If you walk along Yangji’s main thoroughfare, meats), which make for an ideal end you’ll likely catch sight of what appears to to a boozy night. After finishing our be your run-in-the-mill siu mei restaurant. drinks, we venture back through the However, if you venture inside this Cantonese street-side eatery and order the lao eatery, you’ll find a backdoor that leads to niang cha shao rice dish (RMB28) – a Choi Chi College. Best described as a bar with delicious combo of barbecue speakeasy characteristics, this sweet spot is pork, pickled vegetables and secretly accessible from the street while also rice. being completely visible to shoppers inside We really like the vibe of Xintiandi Garden. the bar and its roasted meats Patrons can read all about Choi Chi College’s drink options on their newspaper- be helpful and accommodating and style menu. We opt for the bar’s classic ne- theneighbor, atmosphere as we findto be the pleasant staff to and laid- groni (RMB69) and the Shazam IPA (RMB39); back. With a handful of tables inside and however, the establishment also offers cognac, outside the bar, as well as cushiony high-top whiskey, gin and wine by the bottle. The ne- - Daily 11am-midnight (Siu Mei Restaurant), 8.30pm- groni doesn’t disappoint – bringing a cool, fortable spot to sit. As for the restaurant, it 2am (Choi Chi College). No. 121, Bldg. F3, Fuli bold gin and orange flavor that is perfect for caterschairs moreat the towardsbar top, it’spick-up, easy towith find only a com a few Xintiandi Garden, Taizing Zhi Jie, 越秀 combating Guangzhou’s sticky, summer heat. tiny tables lining the wall. 区泰兴直街富力新天地花园F3栋121单元 (189 8885 As for the Chinese wheat brew, putting its low 0096) alcohol content (4.0% ABV) and small stature Price: RMB50-100 (230 milliliters) aside, it’s an enjoyable and Who’s going: trendy types, college graduates refreshing beer with a fruity aroma and hazy Good for: hard drinks and roasted meats yellow body. Nearest metro: Yangji (Exit B), 10 minutes’ walk On the backside of their paper menu you’ll find a tasty selection of siu mei (roasted

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435 We’ve Got a Bone to Pick By Matthew Bossons

The Place green apple slices, the latter of which adds to can probably be chalked up to the trendy de- the dynamic range of flavors and helps elevate sign and ambience – although it’s worth noting Located south of Grandview Mall in the same the burger to near-legendary status. the staff are friendly and the music decent. trendy neighborhood that houses fan favorites The bizarrely translated duck burger is Tristan’s CalMex and Urban Grill, 435 is a hip where everything goes south. Also set within Price: RMB150 new eatery that offers Western-style cuisine, a black bun, this sandwich arrives packed Who’s going: cocktails and craft beer. with lettuce, apple slices and a whole duck leg Good for: bony surprises, a darn good foie gras When we arrive on a rainy Saturday after- – bones still in. Unquestionably a hassle, the burger selfie snappers, carnivorous types noon, a considerable group of selfie-obsessed only way to properly eat this thing is to cut the Nearest metro: Tiyu Xilu (Exit B), 10 minutes’ young women are busy snapping shots in front meat off the duck’s leg bones and reinsert it walk of the restaurant’s black and white exterior. into the burger. The process is frustrating and It’s obvious before we even enter that the the end result is an anticlimactic burger that Open daily, 11.30am-10pm. Shop 101, 35 Liuyun San place is popular, and after stepping inside it we would not order again – despite its pass- Jie, 天河区六运三街35号101铺435世 becomes clear that this popularity is due to able taste profile. (Pro tip, duck lovers: Stick to 散物餐吧 435’s eclectic design, which draws heavily on 13Factories’ epic minced duck burger.) classic Americana. There is a hatchet on the Although we do not try it, 435’s ‘caramel wall next to a Hot Wheels banner, both situ- bacon sausage burger’ (RMB48) looks almost ated above the restaurant’s numerical name as annoying to eat, if the menu’s photos are – which is brightly lit up. any indication. The ‘American classic beef Other design accents include a risqué neon burger’ (RMB68), on the other hand, looks light, surfboard, crocodile skull and foot-tall true to form. action figure of Greedo, from Star Wars. (We weren’t lying when we said the place was ec- lectic.) The Vibe The low lighting and casual atmosphere Despite our bony mishap with the immediately suck us in, but we know what duck burger, as well as the menu’s you’re thinking – how is the food? high prices and poor translations, we genuinely enjoy our visit to 435. Most of our intrigue with the place The Food We’ll get this out of the way right off the bat: The menu here is littered with gibberish translations and, if you can’t read Chinese, you’d be wise to visit with a Chinese friend. To be fair, 435’s staffers are helpful and do their best to describe items, but we find that lots gets lost in translation. We decide to order the ‘Périgord truffle foie gras beef burger’ (RMB98), ‘French oil seal duck leg burger’ (actual menu name, RMB68) and two beverages – Drake’s Brewing’s ‘Extra Brut’ and Cigar City’s ‘After Sesh’ – from 435’s craft beer selection. The truffle and foie gras burger does not disappoint and lives up to expectations (as it should, consider- ing the price). The foie gras imbues the black-bun burger with its trademark rich- ness, while the gold leaf-topped truffle paste blends well with the savory beef and pro- cessed cheese. Also featuring are lettuce and

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BAIJIU BELIEVER How This Laowai Fell in Love with the Baijiu By Logan R. Brouse

t was a foggy day in San Francisco when lation process. Sorghum is defined as a lychee or watermelon set on fire and left I had my baijiu cherry popped at a place wheat-based cereal with origins in the Old for Mad Max to find in the desert. Even so, Icalled Shanghai 1930 where I tended World, where it was cultivated, educated it is alluring like the sweet song that calls bar. The experience was so unique that I and domesticated long before it became out to young sailors, a song I’ve heard too took to calling it the ‘Chinese Woooooooo- the primary ingredient in this KTV party- many times to ignore. If you listen care- ha’ for its ability to dance like the devil rocking libation. This means we have a fully you just might hear the voices calling across my lips. Soon after, I moved to grain that’s turned into a mash and set your name, and you'll fall in love with the Shanghai and wanted to know more. I was up to ferment into the beautiful specialty baijiu too. beginning to see this ancient Chinese liq- known as baijiu. From there it’s pressed, uor, and one of the world’s most consumed bottled, and eventually delivered to you at spirits, as one of my favorites, even though a business dinner or company ‘team build- it is largely underappreciated in Western ing’ excursion. You know it’s getting real drink culture. in the room when these prized bottles pull I know you hate it, and I’ve heard all up – ‘skeert! skeert!’ – like Bruce Wayne at of your horror stories before, because you a bar mitzvah. haven’t really lived in Shanghai (or China Some nerds would call baijiu the for that matter) until you’ve had a night Chris Brown of spirits: still famous out with the beauty known as baijiu. Your but we can’t justify it anymore. night out ended poorly and you want to But is that really fair? forget the days when you used to eat cheap Let’s give baijiu its due as street noodles and go to convenience store a uniquely Chinese celebra- parties. Your days of showing up to birth- tory spirit. I can happily say day parties with a bottle of Family Mart’s I’ve drunk the most Baij at cheapest baijiu are ancient history. friends’ weddings where We’ve all heard the tales of laowai who the blushing brides and go to business meetings, drink too much handsome grooms cemented their bonds and end up hating life – but what if I told with the shared experience of getting ham- you there was another option? A way to mered, which is an obligatory Chinese cul- drink to the truth and learn a little about tural experience and part of why drinking the strange and wonderful culture we’ve all baijiu is so damn fun. found ourselves in. There are rules to follow, but if you fol- Let’s take a trip together through low them, the night is sure to end with a the history of baijiu and find out why we motley crew of newly acquired best friends. should all learn to love this atom bomb. In There are two kinds of baijiu detractors: the immortal words of Dr. Dre, “Sit back, the locals who associate this master- relax and strap on your seat belt, because piece of alcoholic engineering with a ‘you’ never been on a ride like this befo.” history going on 2,000 years with Baijiu’s actually white wine made with their drunk uncles and the expats sorghum, and the Baij that I know and love that remember being force fed is the result of the final stage of the distil- the fiery spirit without com- pletely understanding its cul- tural significance. Then there are the con- fusing prices, ranging from RMB10 for my personal fa- vorite, Er Guo Tou, to the more baller, Moutai (RMB5,000). In this case, more expensive doesn’t neces- sarily mean better. Once you settle on a bottle, serve it according to tradition. This majestic spirit should be served in a special shot glass that helps bring out its taste, which brings to mind

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The Paddy Field

This Taojin gem is a prime destination to enjoy live music and screenedGuangzhou’s sporting first Irishevents, bar not is stillto mention around the– and top-notch for good eats reason! – notably, their fantastic burgers. Founded in 2004, this pub is a granddaddy in Guangzhou to the expat community – the kind of elderly relative who buys you booze, gets you drunk and then laughs a little when you fall on your bottom. Paddy Field patrons can enjoy happy hour pricing on Brooklyn beer for RMB45 (regu larly RMB55). -

Jun Hotpot

Enjoy traditional Hong Kong-style hot pot at this centrally located restaurant, which boasts drinkable soups – a rarity in the world of overly-oily broths. Dippables here include seafood and the passionately recommended Australian beef. Patrons at Jun Hotpot can enjoy a number of great packages, including two 500-milliliter glasses of Grimbergen Belgian Blond Ale and barbecue pork for only RMB129. For two 500-milliliter glasses of Grimbergen Belgian Blond Ale and Hong Kong-style deep fried crab, guests can expect to pay RMB409. For additional promotions, ask your server.

BEAMS

Specializing in Western-style fare, Beams’ simple and warm interior makes the restaurant perfect for a relax ing meal. Their chefs – who hail from Shanghai – have - over 18 years of experience cooking Western cuisine, and when you bite into one of their juicy burgers, that fact will be immediately evident.

WWW.THATSMAGS.COM | SEPTEMBER 2019 | GZ | 53 Kanho Yakushiji Live in Guangzhou Maximilian Hecker ‘Paradise on Earth’ Tour HEAR Dream Pop

Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra Classical Music

German music producer and song- To the delight of classical music lov- writer Maximilian Hecker is adored ers, Russia’s historic Saint Petersburg for his delicate voice and troubadour- Philharmonic Orchestra is coming to like qualities, which leave a powerful town this month. The oldest orchestra impression on fans. From his very Kanho Yakushiji is awesome in every sense of the word. He is the abbot of in Russia, it has stood the test of time, first album, Infinite Love Songs, to a monastery in Imabari, Japan; however, when he’s not chanting Buddhist performing under different names his latest, Paradise on Earth, Hecker sutras, Yakushiji turns into a pop musician, infusing Buddhist texts with pleas- during different periods of Russian has not only sung his heart out, but ant rhythms that are accompanied by an acoustic guitar and harmonica. history. The renowned orchestra also played every instrument during Along with his musical partner in crime, Satoshi Yamamoto, Yakushiji formed will play under the baton of Russian the recording process. The talented Kissaquo in Kyoto back in 2003 and began performing their one-of-a-kind maestro Nikolay Alexeev at Xinghai musician describes his songs as mel- songs, such as ‘Heart Sutra’ and ‘Sesonge,’ in Buddhist temples. Touring China Concert Hall. ancholy pop hymns. this month, this Buddhist-flavored musical act is too good to miss. Fri Sept 13, 8pm; RMB180-680. Xinghai Sun Sept 15, 8-9.30pm; RMB280. Mao Tue Sept 10, 8pm; RMB280 presale, RMB350 door. Mao Livehouse, 1/F, Zhongzhou Concert Hall, 33 Qingbo Lu, Ersha Livehouse, 1/F, Zhongzhou Trading Trading Center, Huizhan Nan Wu Lu, 海珠区会展南五路中州交易中 Island, Yuexiu District 越秀区二沙岛晴 Center, Huizhan Nan Wu Lu, Haizhu 心1楼 (247tickets.com) 波路33号星海音乐厅 (ticket-easy.cn) District 海珠区会展南五路中州交易中 心1楼 (showstart.com)

Softer Still Shoegaze Dúa de Pel Spanish Folk

Often likened to Wild Nothing, Beach Spanish musical duo Dúa de Pel are House and Galaxie 500, Softer Still known for their versatility and ability have grown from a garage band to to seamlessly combine music styles become a recording and touring from different eras. The pair’s body group. With a nod to progressive of work boasts a matchless sound rock, their new album, Nuances, is and has graced audiences around the a collection of the four-piece’s time- globe. During their China tour, Dúa less, classic shoegaze sound and fea- de Pel will be accompanied by cham- tures imaginative soundscapes. Join ber music ensemble Lavanda Pel, Softer Still for a musical journey this who will jazz up the performance. month at Mao Livehouse. Wed Sept 18, 8pm; RMB150. Mao Sat Sept 14, 8.30pm; RMB120 presale, Livehouse, 1/F, Zhongzhou Trading RMB150 door. Mao Livehouse, 1/F, Center, Huizhan Nan Wu Lu, Haizhu Zhongzhou Trading Center, Huizhan District 海珠区会展南五路中州交易中 Nan Wu Lu, Haizhu District 海珠区会 心1楼 (247tickets.com) 展南五路中州交易中心1楼 (247tickets. com)

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Seasonal Afternoon Tea Set

Performing over 120 concerts a year, the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) has been named by Gramophone as one of the top five orchestras in the world. Having an enviable roster of artists, the LSO have enjoyed residencies at the Barbican in London, Lincoln Center in New York, Salle Pleyel in Paris and Suntory Hall in Tokyo. During their Guangzhou concert, the famed orchestra will play under the baton of world-class maestro Simon Rattle and will be ac- companied by Grammy-winning Emanuel Ax on the piano. Fri Sept 27, 8pm; RMB380-1,580. Xinghai Concert Hall, 33 Qingbo Lu, , Yuexiu District 越秀区二沙岛晴波路33号星海音乐厅 (ticket-easy.cn)

Sheraton Guangzhou Nansha Hotel has prepared a seasonal afternoon tea for folks down in Nansha to escape the hot South China sun. The teatime of- fers guests special sweets, fresh seasonal fruits and other assorted goodies. Vienna Boys’ Choir The Real Group A Daily ongoing; RMB168 for two people. Lobby Lounge, Sheraton Guangzhou Cappella Nansha Hotel, 79-80 Haixi Jie, Haibin Lu, 南沙区海滨路海西街 79-80号广州南沙越秀喜来登酒店 (3900 2288)

Anniversary Offers at LN Hotel Five, Guangzhou

With a history spanning five cen- turies, the celebrated Vienna Boys’ Choir are, without a doubt, one Singing in both English and of the world’s best boys’ choirs Swedish, The Real Group perform and are as reputable as the Vienna remarkable jazz, pop and folk Philharmonic. World-class compos- songs. Boasting a history that spans ers and conductors such as Mozart, over three decades, the Swedish Haydn, Schubert and Bruckner were ensemble have performed at ma- once members of the choir, which jor events such as the World Cup is divided into four touring choirs and the birthday of Queen Silvia named after these four musical mas- of Sweden. This month at Xinghai ters. Though based in Austria, the Concert Hall, they will bring a se- choir is comprised of talented young lection of their most popular songs. vocalists from all around the world. Sat Sept 21, 8pm; RMB380/480. Come see this Austrian treasure in Xinghai Concert Hall, 33 Qingbo Lu, Xinghai Concert Hall this month. Ersha Island, Yuexiu District 越秀区 In celebration of its fourth anniversary this month, boutique hotel LN Hotel Wed Sept 25, 8pm; RMB80-680. 二沙岛晴波路33号星海音乐厅 (ticket- Five, Guangzhou is offering patrons special food and drink deals at its Xinghai Concert Hall, 33 Qingbo Lu, easy.cn) Cantonese restaurant and rooftop bar, as well as room packages. Take ad- Ersha Island, Yuexiu District 越秀区 vantage of the discounts offered at Roof Top Bar, where you can enjoy a sec- 二沙岛晴波路33号星海音乐厅 (ticket- ond cocktail or house wine for half price, a dozen select beers for RMB450 easy.cn) or 10% off all bottles of liquor (except for Japanese whiskeys) from 5.30pm- 1.30am. For more information, call 8931 0505. Daily ongoing, various times and prices. LN Hotel Five, Guangzhou, 277 Yanjiang Zhong Lu, Yuexiu District 越秀区沿江中路277号广州岭南五号酒店 (8931 0505)

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Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake Ballet

Riveting illustrations and animations from three talented and imaginative artists are on display this month at Kui Yuan Gallery. Showcasing the artists’ distinct way of recording life and conveying thoughts, these artworks capture a transitory scene or fleeting moment elevated in a world of free expression – the mind’s eye of each artist. Tue-Sun until Sept 29, 11am-8pm; free entry. Kui Yuan Gallery, 9 Xuguyuan Lu, Yuexiu District 越秀区恤孤院路9号逵园艺术馆

There’s no shortage of innovation in the world of ballet, as demonstrated by English choreographer Matthew Bourne’s contemporary version of Swan Lake, which replaces the female corps de ballet with a male ensemble. This tradition- challenging version of the classic has garnered 30 international theater awards Too Serious to Have Fun – Lucas Biagini Solo Exhibition including an Oliver and three Tonys. And now it’s your chance, ballet lovers, to be immersed in this convention-shattering Swan Lake. Fri-Sun Sept 20-22, 2.30pm, 7.30pm; RMB180-880. , 1 Zhujiang Xi Lu, Tianhe District 天河区珠江西路1号广州大剧院 (247tickets.com)

Anna Karenina Ballet

A graduate from the Ontario College of Art and Design, Lucas Biagini is skillful at creating geological surface-like artworks with various structures, textures Ballet Anna Karenina by Russia’s top choreographer Boris Eifman is emotion- and colors. Biagini wants to boost his audiences’ imagination, so that they can ally tense. Casting aside all other storylines from Tolstoy’s complex, namesake feel the playfulness and positivity that he tries to capture in his works, which novel, the ballet focuses on the love triangle among the heroine Anna, her he refers to as ‘sculpture paintings.’ Tue-Sun until Sept 15, 11am-8pm; RMB50. Nisiss Public Space, 11 Xuguyuan Lu, husband Karenin and her lover Vronsky. Through the tested skills of the danc- Yuexiu District 越秀区恤孤院路11号 ers and Eifman’s astounding choreography, this balletic work conveys timeless human emotions that will still resonate with viewers today. Thu-Fri Sept 26-27, 7.30pm; RMB180-880. Guangzhou Opera House, 1 Zhujiang Xi Lu, Tianhe District 天河区珠江西路1号广州大剧院 (247tickets.com)

56 | GZ | SEPTEMBER 2019 | WWW.THATSMAGS.COM HONG KONG & MACAO CALENDAR

HK MO Olivia Dawn has been influenced Multisport Pavillion (macauticket. VARIOUS DATES by just about every genre in the ONGOING com) book. A skilled DJ, producer and Basketball lovers: There’s a great violinist, her music style has the reason to head down to Macao ability to turn most songs into this month. Whether your nation’s dance floor hits. You won’t want team is featured in the 2019 FIBA to miss her show at Ophelia this Basketball World Cup, or you just month, as it’ll likely be the best gig can’t afford the high cost of a in the city on the first weekend of ticket, The Terrific 12 tournament September. is a great alternative to watch exciting professional basketball, 30th International Macao Fireworks featuring teams from China, Japan, SEPT 12-15 Display Festival, 9pm & 9.40pm; free. Korea and the Philippines vying for The Unforgettable Chapter, 3pm THU-SUN Macau Tower shorefront first place. and 8pm; HKD190/200. HKRep Black Since 1989, the Macao Fireworks Display Festival has been daz- Box (hkrep.com) zling visitors to the Special SEPT 21 A father takes his own life without Administrative Region with flashy any notice, leaving his wife and SAT visual spectacles by teams from three children in a dire situation. Asia, Oceania, Europe and beyond. After the middle daughter moves This year marks the event’s 30th away and sets up her own home, anniversary, so there’s guaranteed the mother moves in, reuniting the to be some unbelievable night- family over a book that’s connect- time shows, with teams like South ed to their late father. Directed by Africa, Canada, Portugal, Malaysia, Octavian Chan, this production is China, Romania and more compet- expected to wow the audience. (To ing each night! note, the play will be presented in Cantonese.) Madagascar the Musical, various times; HKD395-795. Lyric Theater SEPT 13 (hkticketing.com) Fei Yu-ching 2019 Farewell Concert, SEPT 6-7 Do you love animals? Of course FRI 8pm; MOP380-1,380. Arena, FRI-SAT you do, what kind of person The Venetian Macao (macauticket. doesn’t! This month, Madagascar com) the Musical is coming to Hong Fei Yu-ching is a renowned televi- Kong and it’s sure to be a great sion host and ballad singer from time. Come see all your favorite Taiwan, beloved for his strong, characters – Alex the Lion, Marty soulful vocals. After a glowing the Zebra, Melman the Giraffe and 45-year-long career, Fei released Gloria the hip-hop hippo in a won- an emotional handwritten letter derful production of the smash-hit in 2018 announcing his retirement DreamWorks animated motion Haojiang Moonlight Night – Dance and his plan for a final tour. Catch picture. Drama ‘Thangka,’ 8pm; MOP100-200. his classic renditions and surpris- Macao Cultural Center (macauticket. ingly accurate mimicry of other com) artists this month – you won’t get Seong-Jin Cho, 8pm; HKD380-1,280. SEPT 22 This captivating dance drama, another chance. Hong Kong Cultural Center Concert SUN performed by the Qinghai Province Hall (hkphil.org) Performing Arts Group Co, cent- This month, Hong Kong welcomes ers around the traditional art of SEPT 25-29, OCT Seong-Jin Cho to perform a pow- Thangka painting through a story 1-5 erful rendition of Rachmaninov’s of three lives - “the previous life, piano concerto. As the first prize another life and this life.” Following DAILY winner at the 2015 International a hero-heroine romance, Qinghai’s Chopin Piano Competition, Cho Tibetan culture is on full display in has some serious skill that will be this performance. It’s an artistic en- on display at Hong Kong Cultural deavour you wouldn’t typically see Center’s Concert Hall. in Macao, so don’t miss out. SEPT 7-8 SEPT 17-22 SAT-SUN TUE-SUN Hong Kong Jazz Festival, 3-7pm; free Crazy Horse Paris: Forever entry. Hong Kong Olympic Square Crazy in Macao, 7.30pm, 10pm; (hong-kong-traveller.com) MOP380/680. The Parisian Theatre Hold the phone. Hong Kong will (cotaiticketing.com) have an international jazz festival Forever Crazy is the international next month and it’s free. Needless tour of the famous Crazy Horse to say, we’re excited about this Paris cabaret, created as a tribute open-air concert, which will take to the founding father of cabaret, place at the Hong Kong Park Alain Bernardin. Sophisticated, Olympic Square. Renowned musi- feminine and enchanting, this racy cians from across the world will The Terrific 12 East Asia Super performance features 11 gorgeous, be performing jazzy tunes, while League Basketball Tournament, classically trained dancers dressed workshops and photographic exhi- 3/5pm; MOP50-400. Tap Seac scantily in colorful stage lights. Olivia Dawn, 9pm-late; free entry. bitions will also be on hand. Ophelia (eventbrite.hk)

WWW.THATSMAGS.COM | SEPTEMBER 2019 | GZ | 57 HOTEL NEWS NEWS

Marriott International South China Customer Appreciation Dinner Marriott International South China held a grand Guangzhou-themed ban- quet – the Marriott Bonvy Customer Appreciation Dinner – in July at The Westin to express gratitude to the hotel group’s customers. Attendees were treated to delicious Cantonese food, a musical performance, fashion show and more.

PROMOTIONS

Cathy Li Appointed Hotel Manager New Chinese Executive Sous- At Rosewood Sanya Chef Kevin Liang at Grand Hyatt As the new hotel manager, Cathy Li Guangzhou is in charge of directing day-to-day Grand Hyatt Guangzhou welcomes operations in line with Rosewood its newly appointed executive sous- standards. She brings to her role chef Kevin Liang, who began his 20 years of hospitality experience career at 17 years old and boasts 20 working with luxury hotel brands years of culinary experience work- such as Marriott, Hyatt, Sheraton, Le ing for famous hotel brands across Meridien, Westin and St. Regis. China.

Grand Summer Holiday Stellar Dining Series by The Ritz- This summer holiday, hotel am- Carlton bassador Mr. Hybean welcomes As part of The Ritz-Carlton’s Stellar families to stay with Grand Hyatt Dining Series, exclusive lunches Guangzhou, which is located in one and dinners will be prepared from of Guangzhou’s best shopping, sight- October 9 to 13 at Michelin-starred seeing and entertainment areas. Its Lai Heen at The Ritz-Carlton, modern, elegant guestrooms offer Guangzhou. The delightful meals will magnificent views of the beautiful be prepared by the restaurant’s chef, Huacheng Square, and gourmet Gordon Guo, who will work with dining is available at the hotel’s two other Chinese chefs from the first-class restaurants. Price for room hotel brand’s Hong Kong and Macao packages, available before October branches. 31, starts from RMB1,888. Call 8396 The Ritz-Carlton, Guangzhou, 3 1234 for more information. Xing’an Lu, Tianhe District 天河区 12 Zhujiang Xi Lu, Tinahe District 天 兴安路3号广州富力丽思卡尔顿酒店 河区珠江西路12号广州富力君悦大酒 (3813 6888) 店 (8396 1234)

Family Rooms Upgraded at Four Seasons Hotel Guangzhou Minors now have the chance to have a fun-filled stay at Four Seasons Hotel Guangzhou, which recently upgraded its City View Twin Room and View King Bed Room with children’s rec- reational facilities. The room packages Wedding Show at The Ritz-Carlton, Guangzhou are available until December 31. Call the hotel at 8883 3881 for more information. This past July, in concert with high-end wedding brands, The Ritz-Carlton, Four Seasons Guangzhou Hotel, 5 Guangzhou hosted a stunning wedding show, where astounding mirror instal- lations amazed over 300 brides-to-be. Zhujiang Xi Lu, Tianhe District 天河区珠江 西路5号广州四季酒店 (8883 3881)

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Hainan Resort Stay Starting from Just RMB494 a Night

By now you’ve probably heard of Sanya and its incredible beaches, but how about Lingshui? This hidden gem is not as crowded with tourists, making it a great option for a quiet tropical getaway. Located just 70 kilometers away from down- town Sanya, Lingshui can be reached from Sanya Phoenix International Airport in just an hour. If you’re traveling from Haikou, it’s only a 1.5-hour journey to Lingshui Station. On the northern tip of Lingshui, you’ll find a few hotels secluded away on the ocean coastline. Say goodbye to over- crowded beaches and instead enjoy an exclusive beach experi- ence in Lingshui! You’ll be able to explore the crystal-clear wa- ters of the surrounding bay and see tropical fish and coral up close. Come see for yourself why Lingshui is quickly becoming a top destination among local travel experts. This travel package includes a two- or three-night stay at the Marriott Resort & Spa Hainan Xiangshui Bay starting from just RMB494 per night. Book early enough and you’ll also be able to enjoy exclusive privileges, such as a complimentary upgrade to a deluxe sea view room, afternoon tea, family activities and more.

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Two-Day Zen Experience in a Bamboo Forest

We’re teaming up with the Trendy Adventure group for the first time ever to offer That’s and Urban Family readers an unbeatable deal on a two-day Zen experience in a bamboo forest. In need of a break from the day-to-day pace of the city? Then take a step away from the frenzy with this relaxing excursion, which takes place from September 7-8, 2019. Enjoy the spirit of Buddhism on this trip to a 1,000-year-old Buddhist temple, hidden among the trees of a bamboo forest. The two-day Buddhist temple tour includes a one-night stay at the Bodhi Garden, an air-conditioned coach hire, a translator and guide accompa- niment and travel insurance. The experience will give you insight into temple life through a master monk’s sermon, Buddhism learning sessions, temple etiquette, vegetarian meals, Zen cultivation, transcription meditation, a tower climb, morning classes, midday and evening alms and more. Don’t miss out on this opportunity for a true Buddhist experience and to see the life of monks up close! This amazing tour starts from RMB1,500 per person, although discounts for group bookings area available.

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Swiss National Day reception was hosted by the Consulate General of Switzerland in Guangzhou on August 1 to observe the 728th anniver- Asary of the Swiss Confederation.

n August 23, Baioo International Infant Care & Preschool of- n celebration of the National Day of the Republic of Ecuador, the - consul general of Ecuador in Guangzhou, Álvaro García Gutiérrez, Omony. The preschool offers professional pre-education services I based onficially New openedZealand’s its education doors to the curriculum public at fora grand youngsters opening aged cere 0 to at the White Swan Hotel on August 8. 3 years old. welcomed distinguished guests from a variety of professional fields

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Kaiping Tangkou Double Seventh Fair That’s x 1664 Blue Tango Night (Supported by and ) (Supported by and ) The second ‘Qixi Fair’ was held from August 3 to 4 at Tangkou, Kaiping Tango night was held by That’s and the team behind Kronenbourg and attracted more than 10,000 people. Highlights of the event included a 1664 Blanc at 8 Faubourg Bar and Terrace on August 7. It was a market, performances, community activities and a food workshop. romantic evening filled with plenty of tango, boozy challenges and awesome prizes, including a hotel stay at the elegant Sofitel Guangzhou Sunrich.

Power Supply-Themed Summer Camp That’s x Jing-A Watermelon Championship (Supported by ) (Supported by ) This past month, curious attendees at a series of ‘watermelon cham- China Southern Power Grid Guangdong Company, organized a summer pionship’ events held by That’s and Jing-A Brewing tasted the Beijing- programGuangdong for Radio children and themed Television, around along power with supplythe fine knowledge, folks over atwith the 23 based brewery’s brand-new Jing-A Beijing Bikini Watermelon Wheat inquisitive youngsters discovering the secrets behind supplying electric- Beer, while delighting themselves in a watermelon-eating competition ity in Jiulong county, in northern Guangdong. and watermelon-balloon-blowing contest. The watermelon-themed event series was held at various venues including Beams and Ergou in Guangzhou, as well as Half Ton Brewery, The Brew and Yi Tang Tap Room in Shenzhen.

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SLEEP, WHO NEEDS IT? Here’s How to Have the Best Night’s Sleep Possible

By Dr. Gaudeul

a role in memory consolidation, among Here are some tips to improve your sleep: other healthy benefits that heal and sup- • Exercise regularly. It has been proven to port . improve sleep quality (but not too late in When the REM stage ends, we start an- the day) other cycle of light sleep, then deep sleep, • More bright light exposure during the followed by another REM stage 90 minutes day and avoid light exposure at night. It later. We need around seven to nine hours has been shown to keep the circadian of sleep daily, resulting in approximately rhythm healthy and improve sleep quality 25% of REM sleep. • Don’t drink caffeine in the afternoon or Poor sleep has been proven to have evening as it stays in your system several an immediate negative effect on your hor- hours later mones, performances and brain functions, • Wake up at the same time each day which seems obvious now that we know • Avoid long naps that muscle and brain repair occurs during • Taking a little melatonin (2 milligrams) sleep. But if you can’t sleep, it’s important at nighttime is safe and restores sleep pat- Dr. Gaudeul hails from France and to avoid sleeping pills, as they don’t give terns without creating a habit. got his medical degree from Toulouse us the proper sleep we need. • Avoid alcohol and late night eating as it Rangueil University of Medicine, Snoring is another issue where not diminishes your quality of sleep France in 1991. He joined Eur Am as a only your spouse suffers. Individuals suf- • Don’t drink a lot of liquids before sleep. full time general practitioner in 2018. fering from sleep apnea struggle mightily It can increase the need for bathroom use with this phenomenon. Their poor sleep during night and can impair your sleep. 1F North Tower, Ocean Pearl Building, 19 Huali quality may lead to permanent fatigue, • Upgrade your mattress and pillow. Lu, , Guangzhou 广州市 drowsiness and depression, among other • If you can’t sleep, don’t stay in bed. 天河区珠江新城华利路19号远洋明珠大厦北座 serious side effects, including heart at- Stand up, take a book and read. 首层 Tel : 020 3758 5328 tacks and strokes.

sn’t it a bit frustrating to think that we spend one-third of our day sleeping? IWhat a waste of time! Actually, sleep is a very important part of our daily life. It is much more than a simple period of unconsciousness, but rather a complex rejuvenation process where a lot of things happen. Sleep follows a pattern of several cy- cles of NREM (nonrapid eye movement) sleep, alternating with REM (rapid eye movement) sleep. As we fall asleep, we en- ter the N1 stage – a half-awake light sleep. Then comes stage N2, where we are totally disengaged from our surroundings, our breathing and heart rate go down and our temperature drops. Finally, stage N3 (for- merly called stages 3 and 4) sets in. This is a deep-sleep stage where a lot of things happen – blood pressure drops, muscles relax, the blood flow increases and tissue growth and repair occurs. Many hormones are also released, such as growth hormones, which play a re- juvenating role. Ghrelin and leptin – hun- ger hormones – are also regulated during sleep, so a poor sleep can result in more hunger and a higher risk of obesity. These stages last about 90 minutes, af- ter which the REM stage of sleep starts. We believe that the REM stage plays

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Your upcoming birthday celebration This has always been a hard month for We get it, Scorps, you hatin’ riding the This month, you’ve got to go it alone. is going be wild and someone in you: You simply love moon cakes too metro in the summertime – it stinks, You’re freshly single, but that’s okay your fearsome entourage might find much and your belly always pays the literally. But let’s be real, you can’t – this is a great chance to focus on themselves in trouble with local law price. This year, try balancing each afford to cab to work every day, so save your career goals (you’ll be shocked enforcement. Remind your friends to moon cake with an hour-long walk – yourself some cash and hop on one of how much respect you get when you carry their passports with them while you’ll thank us next month when trying Alibaba’s Hellobikes. A little exercise actually show up to the office on time engaging in late-night debauchery. to fit into that oh-so-sexy Halloween never killed anyone. each day). Download Tantan to fill the outfit. emotional void in your life.

Capricorn Aquarius Pisces Aries 12.22~1.20 1.21~2.19 2.20~3.20 3.21~4.20 You’ve been sick this past month, and, This crackdown on unqualified Disaster strikes this month after you Your ayi will pull a runner this month let’s be honest – your late-night antics teachers has you understandably forget to close your office window and and disappear back to her hometown and nonstop drinking and smoking are concerned about your lack of official a rodent (or two) takes up residence without notice. This is a great chance taking their toll on your health. This paperwork. Accept it: It’s time to go inside. While no one saw you leave to take responsibility for your living month, set a regular bedtime, cut back back to school and earn a degree, the window open, it’s better to claim quarters; do your own laundry, wash on the booze and buy yourself a vape. so that you can pursue your love of ownership of the problem and offer to your dishes and, for God’s sake, flush Avoid moon cakes at all costs and teaching in China with peace of mind. fix it. Buy eight (for luck) rat traps on the damn toilet by yourself. instead try to eat an apple a day. Alternatively, move to Shenzhen and Taobao and swap the cheese for BBQ develop your own cryptocurrency. pork.

Taurus Gemini Cancer Leo 4.21~5.21 5.22~6.21 6.22~7.22 7.23~8.23

You’ve been dating multiple people at Your success this month will be Your ruling planet takes center stage Well done, Leo, you managed to have the same time and it’s about to blow influenced by the people around you this month thanks to Mid-Autumn a birthday celebration last month that up in your face. Do what you can to fix – which means taking a more positive Festival. This means it’s your time to didn’t result in vomit and a lost ATM hurt feelings and take some time to approach to your colleagues. If Sally shine: Buy a fancy new dress (or suit, card – you’re all grown up! Keep the assess what you really want. Pro tip: from sales is behind on her monthly for the lads) and hit the town looking adult-life vibes going this month and Owning multiple cats is a lot of work, quota, try offering some words of classy. Eat at least two moon cakes toss out all your ratty heavy metal but it’s certainly less drama – and the encouragement (and a moon cake!) to per week till the end of the month. T-shirts. Visit Uniqlo for new clothes cuddles are almost as good! keep her motivated. Avoid late-night and a possible love connection. WeChat rants to your boss.

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