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Follow Us on WeChat Now FOR THOSE 城市漫步珠三角 英文版 11 月份 China Intercontinental Press 国内统一刊号 Advertising Hotline : CN 11-5234/GO ABOUT TO 400 820 8428 ABOUT TO NOVEMBER ALSO IN THIS ISSUE: AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH 2016 JIMMY CHOO, THE SIGHTS OF URUMQI AND ACCOUNTS FROM CHINA'S MOST POLLUTED CITY that’s PRD 《城市漫步》珠江三角洲 英文月刊 主管单位 : 中华人民共和国国务院新闻办公室 Supervised by the State Council Information Office of the People's Republic of China 主办单位 : 五洲传播出版社 地址 : 北京西城月坛北街 26 号恒华国际商务中心南楼 11 层文化交流中心 11th Floor South Building, HengHua linternational Business Center, 26 Yuetan North Street, Xicheng District, Beijing http://www.cicc.org.cn 社长 President of China Intercontinental Press: 李红杰 Li Hongjie 期刊部负责人 Supervisor of Magazine Department: 邓锦辉 Deng Jinhui 编辑 : 刘扬 发行 / 市场 : 黄静 李若琳 广告 : 林煜宸 Editor in Chief Tom Lee Deputy Editor Jocelyn Richards Shenzhen Editor Sky Thomas Gidge Web Editor Matthew Bossons Editorial Assistants Tristin Zhang, Ziyi Yuan National Arts Editor Andrew Chin Contributors Lena Gidwani, Oscar Holland, Dominic Ngai, Dave Tacon, Zoey Zha HK FOCUS MEDIA Shanghai (Head Office) 上海和舟广告有限公司 上海市蒙自路 169 号智造局 2 号楼 305-306 室 邮政编码 : 200023 Room 305-306, Building 2, No.169 Mengzi Lu, Shanghai 200023 电话 : 传真 : Guangzhou 上海和舟广告有限公司广州分公司 广州市麓苑路 42 号大院 2 号楼 610 室 邮政编码 : 510095 Rm 610, No. 2 Building, Area 42, Luyuan Lu, Guangzhou 510095 电话 : 020-8358 6125 传真 : 020-8357 3859 - 816 Shenzhen 深圳联络处 深圳市福田区彩田路星河世纪大厦 C1-1303 C1-1303, Galaxy Century Building, Caitian Lu, Futian District, Shenzhen 电话 : 0755-8623 3220 传真 : 0755-6406 8538 Beijing 北京联络处 北京市东城区东直门外大街 48 号东方银座 C 座 G9 室 邮政编码 : 100027 9G, Block C, Ginza Mall, No. 48 Dongzhimen Wai Dajie, Dongcheng District, Beijing, 100027 电话 : 010-8447 7002 传真 : 010-8447 6455 General Manager Henry Zeng Operations Manager Rachel Tong Accountant Annie Qi Production Supervisor Jack Lin Senior Designer Tawaka Jiang, Designers Claire Zheng, Jenny Li Sales Managers Celia Yu, Justin Lu Account Manager Christy Cai Senior Account Executive Shumin Li Account Executives Wesley Zhang, Nicole Tang Sales Assistant Sunnie Lü Business Development Manager Morri Qin Event Manager Valentina Latorraca Event Supervisor Alice Wang Marketing Executive Fish Lin Marketing Assistant Annie Li Distribution Luo Zhi, He Wei Wen CEO Leo Zhou Editorial Director Ned Kelly HR/Admin Director Penny Li Financial Manager Laura Lu Digital Products Manager Vickie Guo Digital Sybil Zhang, Timi Shi, Joseph Miao, Miller Yue General enquiries and switchboard (020) 8358 6125 [email protected] Editorial (020) 8358 9847 ext 808 [email protected] Sales (Guangzhou) (020) 8358 9847 ext 802 [email protected] (Shenzhen) (0755) 8623 3210 ext 801 Distribution/Subscription (020) 8358 7749 ext 828 Listings & Events (Guangzhou) (020) 8358 9847 ext 808 (Shenzhen) (0755) 8623 3220 Web & IT (021) 5238 5459 Fax (020) 8363 3759 ext. 816 www.thatsmags.com 广告经营许可证 : 京海工商厂字第 8069 号 法律大部 : 大成律师事务所 魏君贤律师 Distribution Legal advisor: Wei Junxian, Dacheng Law Firm across the 国际标准刊号 : ISSN 1672-8041 国内统一刊号 : CN 11-5233/GO Pearl River ： Delta: 63,000 定价 : 25.00 元 邮发代号 46-193 copies 如发现印刷装订问题 , 请与广州白云天马印刷厂联系 部分非卖品 , 仅限赠阅 2 | SZ | NOVEMBER 2016 | WWW.THATSMAGS.COM Editor's Note November WIN WIN WIN Autumn, much like poetry, is often written off as a rather boring affair. It has none of the feverish sexuality of summer’s pool parties and beach holidays; neither does it offer the cooling release of winter, that brief period in South China when we are given respite from our sins and it doesn’t feel like another hot day in hell. No, on the face of it, autumn does not have much to recommend itself (aside from, perhaps, Thanksgiving celebrations, if you happen to celebrate that particular festivity). But just as we can find beauty in leaves as they wither and die, leaving this world in a flash of burning orange, so can we find beauty in the Pearl River Delta. What beauty exactly, you ask? Perhaps you can draw inspiration from some of this In Guangzhou, a pair of tick- month’s articles, whether you’re a fashion maven (check out our interview with Jimmy Choo on p21), an avid club-goer (see our chat with Armin van Buuren on p29) or just in search of a ets to psychedelic shoegaze new team activity like Ultimate Frisbee (p48). outfitFlyying Colours (p76), See you in the winter! a pair of tickets to post-rock band Mooncake (p76), a pair of tickets to a piano duet rep- Tom Lee Editor in Chief ertoire by Lithuanian pianist Gintaute Gataveckaite and Australian pianist Tristan Lee featuring Schubert, Ravel, Brahms and Tchaikovsky (p76), a pair of tickets to see a mix of “Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun hip-hop and electro up-and- Conspiring with him how to load and bless comers at Northern European With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run; Night (p76), a pair of tickets To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees, to French musical Romeo et And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; Juliette (p78) and a pair of To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells tickets to the Monet exhibi- With a sweet kernel; to set budding more, tion at GTLand Plaza (p78). And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease, In Shenzhen, a pair of tickets For Summer has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells. COVER CREDITS to Australian singer-composer Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store? Special thanks to Humi Tamas Wells (p72), two Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find Zheng and his team at Suting pairs of tickets to traditional Thee sitting careless on a granary floor, Photography Studio for turning Hispanic music concert Sound Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind; our editorial department into a of Spain (p72), a pair of tick- Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep, bunch of badass rockers! We'd Drows'd with the fume of poppies, while thy hook also like to credit the great Alex ets to homegrown folk band Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers: Grey for his background design. Low Wormwood (p72), 10 And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep e-vouchers, for two glasses Steady thy laden head across a brook; of Taps beer (p84) and five Or by a cider-press, with patient look, tickets to Future One’s White Thou watchest the last oozings hours by hours. Party (p85). Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they? Think not of them, thou hast thy music too,– To find out how to win one of While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day, these fabulous prizes, simply And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue; Hourly updates on news, current affairs message our official WeChat Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn and general weirdness from around PRD Among the river sallows, borne aloft and China. (Thats_PRD) with the name of Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies; FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA the prize you would like. And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn; facebook.com/thatsonline Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft The red-breast whistles from a garden-croft; twitter.com/thatsonline And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.” youtube.com/thatsonline #ThatsPRD -- ‘To Autumn,’ by John Keats 4 | SZ | NOVEMBER 2016 | WWW.THATSMAGS.COM WWW.THATSMAGS.COM | NOVEMBER 2016 | SZ | 5 8 CITY 36 COVER STORY KEEP ON ROCKIN' 9 MORNING PICK-ME-UP Interviews with the bands and record labels livening up the PRD. A couple who sell street- side breakfasts shares the story of their lives. 12 BAODING COMES CLEAN Will blue skies return to China‘s most polluted city? 20 LIFE & STYLE 46 COMMUNITY 21 MORE THAN STILLETOS Jimmy Choo on mentoring and giving back to China. 26 THE LAST PARADISE Island and resort hopping in Palawan. 72 EVENTS 28 ARTS 29 ARMIN VAN BUUREN Legendary DJ to Only Embrace China. 32 CLOCKENFLAP 2016 NOV 6-12 Annual music, art and film festival rocks Hong CHoP Festival Kong. 58 EAT & NOV 11-12 DRINK Shenzhen Craft Beer Festival 59 B.PARK CUISINE Dining in an art garden. 68 TRAVELS THROUGH DALI WITH A LEG OF HAM Travel maven Zhang Mei returns to her Yunnan roots and discovers NOV 18 regional recipes. Low Wormwood THE WRAP 6 | SZ | NOVEMBER 2016 | WWW.THATSMAGS.COM CITY Journey to the West The colorful life of Xinjiang captured in photographs China’s new basketball hope? Smog City P10 P12 8 | SZ | NOVEMBER 2016 | WWW.THATSMAGS.COM MAN ON THE STREET MORNING PICK-ME-UP Chinese Breakfast Vendor By Tristin Zhang t is a typical, drizzling morning in October. “My husband was a business man in the - Zhang Yin and her husband roll their cart, hardware industry and owned a store in the tracted many a returning customer. Iequipped with a metal steamer, to their Tianping Decoration Market. Some years porridge, the decent flavors of which have at regular selling post on Shatai Lu and start ago he shut it down due to high rent and bad considering selling something else for lunch, their morning routine: selling porridge, buns business,” Zhang continues, explaining how like “Wechangfen, usually to finish add to after our income,11am. We you are and other morning repast. How long have they got into the street food business. know?” Zhang says, adding that she wishes they performed this routine? “Let’s count. Zhang and her husband have thought her and her spouse could make as much Hmm,” Zhang ponders, “we have been doing about leaving Guangzhou for a fresh start money as in their previous line of work.