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Borderlands Dispatches from the Edge of China 城市漫步上海 英文版11月份 国内统一刊号: CN 11-5233/GO China Intercontinental Press Borderlands Dispatches from the Edge of China NOVEMBER 2019 that’s Shanghai 《城市漫步》上海版 英文月刊 主管单位 : 中华人民共和国国务院新闻办公室 Supervised by the State Council Information Office of the People's Republic of China 主办单位 : 五洲传播出版社 地址 : 中国北京 北京西城月坛北街 26 号恒华国际商务中心南楼 11 层文化交流中心 邮编 100045 Published by China Intercontinental Press Address: 11th Floor South Building, HengHua International Business Center, 26 Yuetan North Street, Xicheng District, Beijing 100045, PRC http://www.cicc.org.cn 社长 President of China Intercontinental Press: 陈陆军 Chen Lujun 期刊部负责人 Supervisor of Magazine Department: 付平 Fu Ping 主编 Executive Editor: 袁保安 Yuan Baoan 编辑 Editor: 朱莉莉 Zhu Lili 发行 Circulation: 李若琳 Li Ruolin Food & Drink Editor Cristina Ng National Arts Editor Bryan Grogan Production Manager Ivy Zhang 张怡然 Designers Joan Dai 戴吉莹 , Nuo Shen 沈丽丽 Contributors Waseem Abbas, Matthew Bossons, Logan R. Brouse, Danish Ejaz, Ryan Gandolfo, Phoebe Kut, Mia Li, Herlina Liu, Justine Lopez, Erica Martin, Valerie Osipov, Benjamin Plafker, Daniel Plafker, Tristan Sapp, Sophie Steiner, Tristin Zhang HK FOCUS MEDIA Shanghai (Head office) 上海和舟广告有限公司 上海市静安区江宁路 631 号 6 号楼 407-408 室 邮政编码 : 200041 Room 407-408, Building 6, No. 631 Jiangning Lu, Jing'an District, Shanghai 200041 电话 : 021-6077 0760 传真 : 021-6077 0761 Guangzhou 上海和舟广告有限公司广州分公司 广州市越秀区麓苑路 42 号大院 2 号楼 610 室 邮政编码 : 510095 Room 610, No. 2 Building, Area 42, Luyuan Lu, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou 510095 电话 : 020-8358 6125, 传真 : 020-8357 3859-800 Shenzhen 广告代理 电话 : 0755-8623 3220, 传真 : 0755-8623 3219 Beijing 广告代理 电话 : 010-8447 7002, 传真 : 010-8447 6455 Sales & Marketing Director Doris Dong 董雯 BD Manager Tina Zhou 周杨 Sales & Advertising Linda Chen 陈璟琳 , Celia Chen 陈琳 , Jayness Zhang 张帅 , Nick Cen 岑烨 BD & Marketing Yuri Teng 滕越儿 , Camilla Bian 边思宇 , Yuki Wu 吴亚琪 HR Manager Apple Chen 陈怡 HR/Assistant Annie Zhao 赵怡婷 Accounting Emily Xu 须秀彦 Distribution Zac Wang 王蓉铮 NATIONAL OPERATION CEO Leo Zhou 周立浩 Financial Manager Laura Lu 陆晓岚 Director of National Sales Project Henry Zeng 曾庆庆 Director of National Communications Ned Kelly Director of National Digital BD Doris Dong 董雯 National BD Manager, Hospitality Tina Zhou 周杨 Director of National Digital Products Vickie Guo 郭韵 Digital Content Manager Bridget O'Donnell Digital Elsa Yang 杨融 , Kane Zhu 朱晓俊 , Ruyi Jin 金如意 , Walle Cao 曹健 , Orange Wang 王爽 , Yu Sun 孙宇 , Taylor Luo 罗素梅 General enquiries and switchboard (021) 6077 0760 [email protected] Editorial (021) 6077 0760*5807 [email protected] Distribution (021) 6077 0760*2802 [email protected] Marketing/Subscription (021) 6077 0760*8801 [email protected] Advertising 400 820 8428*8803 [email protected] Web & IT (021) 6077 0760*7803 Fax (021) 6077 0761 广告经营许可证 : 京海工商广字第 8069 号 法律顾问 : 大成律师事务所 魏君贤律师 Legal Advisor: Wei Junxian, Dacheng Law Firm 国际标准刊号 ISSN 1672-8033 国内统一刊号 CN 11-5233/GO 定价 : 25.00 元 邮发代号 : 4-845 www.thatsmags.com 2 | NOVEMBER 2019 | WWW.THATSMAGS.COM Editor's Note NOVEMBER e’s got itchy feet and Solomons takes a long-overdue coming to town (p28). Tibetan ants in his pants, does and much longed-for trip to HMatthew Bossons. When Thames Town, a surreal replica art week is on the way (p34). film is taking off (p30). Shanghai not exploring the best destina- of an English market town on the Historic Shanghai is yours to Hourly updates on news, current affairs tions in Asia, or trying to contact outskirts of Shanghai. Hilarity explore (p49). Soup is available and general weirdness from around aliens using the world’s largest (and Harry Potter sightings) to warm the cockles when the Shanghai and China. ensue (p10). The wanderlust weather turns (p56). There is Guizhou, or scuba diving through doesn’t end there – we’ve also always more food and drink to FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA China’sfilled-aperture vast underwater radio telescope cave in got a travel guide to Urumqi be enjoyed (p58). And that ir- system in Guangxi, then he’s off from our excellent Explore China repressible alcoholic Logan R. facebook.com/ThatsShanghai the edges of the Chinese empire, guide from p20. If you enjoy Brouse offers up yet more ways and nosing around in its neigh- that, the book, which covers the to get you drunk (p63). twitter.com/ThatsShanghai bors’ backyards. Find out what whole country, is available to buy youtube.com/thatsonline lies south (and north, east and by scanning the QR code on the Enjoy! west) of the border from p38. opening page of the piece. #THATSSHANGHAI A little closer to home, Aron What else? The Kooks are Ned Kelly AD WWW.THATSMAGS.COM | NOVEMBER 2019 | 3 7 20 6 CITY 14 LIFE & STYLE 7 BIG PIGS 15 VINTAGE PRINTS Why China is breeding huge swine Lifestyle brand de shanghai 10 THAMES TOWN 20 URUMQI Putting the trip into day trip Gateway to the Northwest THE WRAP 34 56 24 ARTS 52 EAT & DRINK 28 THE KOOKS 56 SOUL SOUP Guitarist Hugh Harris Winter warmers season is nigh 34 ART ATTACK 58 NEW RESTAURANTS Art021 and West Bund Art & Design Exploring the latest openings 4 | NOVEMBER 2019 | WWW.THATSMAGS.COM 38 COVER STORY THE BORDERLANDS Dipatches from the edge of China P68 64 EVENTS NOV 8 NOV 15-16 SAMAJAM Kids Show 2 Der Elefantenpups NOV 15-17 DEC 1 Children’s Book Fair Allie X WWW.THATSMAGS.COM | NOVEMBER 2019 | 5 CITY Thames Town Potter Spotted, P10 Woohoo Lei! Trowing Shade P8 P9 TALES OF THE CITY TALES OVERSIZED OINKERS China Breeds Polar Bear-Sized Pigs as Pork Prices Surge By Ryan Gandolfo frican Swine Fever (ASF) has taken a are still increasing as a result of the virus. One of them was adding 1,600 metric tons major toll on the nation’s pork supply, In Jilin province, farmers are raising pigs of frozen pork reserves into circulation, dis- Aleading some farmers to ‘go big’ and 50 to 75 kilograms heavier than a normal breed the heaviest swine they can manage. pig’s average weight (around 125 kilograms), As the swine population continues to According to Bloomberg, one farm owner with one farmer telling Bloomberg that the fallcounted as a result by 10% of aof growing the average number market of ASF- price. named Pang Cong in Nanning, Guangxi is goal is to raise them “as big as possible.” infected pigs, tapping into pork reserves and breeding pigs the size of polar bears. Pang’s Large-scale farms are also supersizing supplying the meat to supermarkets, schools ‘swollen’ swine, which weighs approximately their swine, as Chinese protein producers try and hotels, among other establishments, 500 kilograms, is a part of a herd that’s ex- to increase the average weight of their pigs, seems to be the main method of addressing pected to breed more giant oinkers. In some demand. The tactic is expected to keep pork cases, farm owners can reel in more than according to Bric Agriculture Group Senior prices relatively stable while the government RMB10,000 for these massive animals. Analystwhich could Lin Guofa, raise profitscited by by Bloomberg more than. 30%, continues to address the epidemic. Over the past year, pig farmers around Chinese Vice Premier Hu Chunhua visited To read about Chinese scientists’ break- China have been feeling the pressure to Shandong, Hebei and Henan provinces last through in the search for a cure for African deliver on an increasingly meat-obsessed month to encourage farmers to resume pig Swine Fever, scan the QR code. production to “ensure a stable market sup- of ASF were reported in China, which has population. In August 2018, the first cases on the Central Government’s website. population over the past 14 months. Beijing ply,”In according response to to an the official growing announcement pork crisis, andled to local a significant governments drop have in the taken country’s measures pig - to stabilize the industry; however, pork prices ures to stabilize pork prices in September. officials in Guangdong implemented 10 meas WWW.THATSMAGS.COM | NOVEMBER 2019 | 7 THE BUZZ DON’T YOU KNOW WHO I AM? Wu Lei RANDOM NUMBER The Chinese forward made history last month, in the main stages of a European competition, asbecoming he gave theEspanyol first Chinese a 1-0 lead national over CSKAto score Moscow in the UEFA Europa League. The 39 27-year-old made an angled run to meet a … is how many billions of US dollars ball from teammate Matías Vargas and dinked Alibaba founder Jack Ma and his fam- it over goalkeeper Igor Akinfeev to put the ily are worth, according to the Hurun Barcelona side ahead in Moscow. China Rich List 2019. The annual report Espanyol ran out 2-0 winners on on China’s wealthiest folks was pub- the night. Scan the QR code to lished last month, and revealed quite a watch the goal. shakeup in the top 10. Hurun’s chief re- searcher referred to China’s wealthiest person list as a “two-horse race,” with Tencent CEO Pony Ma’s wealth valued USD2 billion short of Ma, at code to see the full list. USD37 billion. Scan the QR QUOTE OF THE MONTH “Freedom of speech doesn’t mean freedom of consequences” between the National Basketball Association (NBA) and China last month, whichSo said started LA Clippers after Houstonhead coach Rocket’s Doc Rivers General when Manager asked aboutDaryl Moreythe conflict tweeted about Hong Kong-related events. In response to comments made soon after by NBA commissioner Adam Silver, Chinese broadcaster CCTV decided to temporarily suspend the broadcasts of NBA preseason games Chinese celebrities and companies also came out in opposition toand Morey’s investigate tweet all and cooperation Silver’s comments.
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