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Pyongyang Marathon Going the Distance Intro Festival Return of the Original Underground Party Soldiers of Misfortune the KMT Veterans on the Wrong Side of History Pyongyang Marathon Going the Distance INTRO Festival Return of the Original Underground Party Soldiers of Misfortune The KMT Veterans on the Wrong Side of History Follow us on WeChat Now Advertising Hotline 400 820 8428 城市漫步北京 英文版 5 月份 国内统一刊号: CN 11-5232/GO China Intercontinental Press + Great Wall Music Festival MAY 2014 Win Tickets BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER 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 ：北京市海淀区北三环中路31 号生产力大楼 B 座 7 层 邮编 100088 B-721 Shengchanli Building, No. 31 Beisanhuan Zhonglu, Are you young, enthusiastic, personable and Haidian District, Beijing 100088, PRC in love with Beijing? http://www.cicc.org.cn 社长 President of China Intercontinental Press 李红杰 Li Hongjie Prefer DADA to Vics? 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Readers should verify terms and conditions of all offers mentioned in this issue. 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 1672-8025 国内统一刊号 CN 11-5232/GO 定价 : 20.00 元 邮发代号 : 2-930 部分非卖品 , 仅限赠阅 2 MAY 2014 Thats_Beijing EDITOR’s twitter.com/Thats_Beijing Note www.facebook.com/pages/Thats-Beijing MAY Around this time last year, someone politely suggested we put together a summer sports is- sue, because that’s an idea that hasn’t been done to death by every other magazine a million times before. Yet, here we are, in the dying days of spring, with our very own inadvertent sports issue. Will Philipps kicks off proceedings on page 16, with his “North Korean workout plan.” in the annual Pyongyang marathon. On page 42, I hit the gym with two of China’s top teen- Join him, as he attempts to become the first ever foreign amateur runner to go the distance Arts (MMA). While on page 38, Nightlife Editor Alex Taggart proves raving really is the best formage cage of exercise, fighters, as to he find meets out what with itthe takes organizers to succeed of the in theINTRO brutal Festival, world and of Mixed goes behind Martial legend, turned hired goalkeeping gun, AKA, the most truthful man in football, our very own Mr.the Ianscenes Walker, at Beijing’s as he guides original us EDMthrough summer the corrupt party. Andunderground finally we world join Tottenham of Chinese Hotspur match- Our life and style editor Marianna Cerini, photo- Too much? Worry not, there’s more to this issue than tenuous sports-related content. graphed here with British style Elsewherefixing (page in 80). the magazine Karoline Kan meets with China’s last surviving KMT veterans icon Paul Smith. Never meet (page 10), Marina Garvey-Birch travels to Taiwan to sample the island’s famous night mar- your idols, they say. Well, Paul kets (page 30), our resident columnist Ali Ali makes peace with the idea of being a token certainly has now. black friend (page 14), and last, but by no means least, there’s the Great Wall Music Festival, for which we’ve got a fist full of tickets to give away (page 65). Rave on sports fans. Stephen George Editor-in-Chief Senior editor Will Philipps got a lot of strange looks when he told people he was off to North Korea to run a marathon – but that was nothing compared to the strange looks he got from the North Korean spectators as he ran around the course. If April was the month of rock ‘n’ roll (did you spot us playing air guitar at Sound of the Xity and Strawberry?), then May is the month of electronica. We’ve got two pairs of tickets to give away to both INTRO (p38) and the Great Wall Festival (p65), there's also a pair of tickets for the Whose Line Is It Anyway? comedy gig (p33); a pair of tickets to the Beijing screening of Comrade Kim Goes Flying (p40); a pair of tickets for the Nanluoguxiang Theater Festival (p41); and a meal voucher for Niajo (p71). MAY 2014 3 6 CITY 9 WHAT WOULD CONFUCIUS DO? Moral dilemmas dissected through the teachings of Confucius. 15 CHINESE urBAN dictioNary Webslangin’ words made comprehensible. 16 PYONGYANG MARATHON Twenty six miles in a repressive dictatorship. Sign up for 20 LIFE & STYLE 1 year 21 STYLE SECRETS Fashion designer Georgette on the (12 issues) importance of feeling comfortable. 24 ChiNA’S Beauty home delivery INduStry of That’s What makes up the cosmetics industry in China. Beijing for 30 TRAVEL: TAIWAN We eat and shop around the RMB240 island’s vibrant night markets. 34 ARTS 37 tortoiSE The Illinois post-rock legends come out of their shell before playing Beijing. 38 INtro feStival It’s not all that easy organizing an EDM festival in an old steel factory. 40 comrade kim The groundbreaking (and per- haps only) North Korean rom-com arrives in Beijing. 50 EAT & DRINK 52 MAMA piZZA It’s in this mother’s nature to make great pizzas. 53 SoloiST TEL: 84477002 The café where making [email protected] . coffee55 hat is Sa UfineNE art Beijing’s popular California sushi joint is on a roll. 4 MAY 2014 THE WRAP Quote of the ISSue ”IF THE UFC STAGED A TOURNAMENT IN CHINA TOMORROW, ALL THE CHINESE FIGHTERS WOULD GET BEATEN, baDLY. THIS WOULD BE A BIG PROBLEM. EVERYBODY WOULD KNOW THAT KUNG FU’S FAMOUS MAGIC POWERS ARE A LIE“ MMA trainer ‘Bobo’ Wu Jing , page 45 COLUMNiSTS 42 Fight CluB On the road with China’s teenage cage fighters. 14 ALI ALI 35 ADam DEHMOHSENI 52 V SPORTS Do the owners of Vics know how to run a sports bar? 1O SOLDIERS OF MISFORTUNE We meet with China’s last surviving KMT veterans. 36 ALEX TAGGART MAY 2014 5 TH E BUZZ ASK A LAOBEIJING What do you think of the taxis and traffic in Beijing? Yang Quanli was taking his grandson home from a park in Gulou. He has a slow and simple lifestyle – no car, no cellphone, no Internet. “I don’t like taxis. The drivers are so picky. I am outside every day with strategy when choosing a passenger. A single person is better than a group, youngmy little is bettergrandson than and old, although and Chinese I don’t is lookbetter for than taxis, foreigners I’ve figured who out may their not be able to direct them to the right location. a taxi! But one trick: without saying a word, open the door and sit down, they’re“If you unlikely are a seniorto be able foreigner to get youwith out a kid, of the then taxi don’t then. bother trying to find “I don’t need taxis. Taxis are only for those busy businessman and rich people. You can walk and cycle anywhere for free, take the bus for several mao or the subway for two kuai. Why do you need a taxi that costs 20 yuan or more? “There is something called Didi Dache that can help you to get a taxi? Well, sounds amazing, but still, I won’t be tempted!” everybody lives like me, then no car is needed. I have lived here for almost “The traffic jams are the price you pay in return for modern life. If cancer. 20 years and have seen how the traffic gets worse and worse. It is this city’s There is a parking area but it remains empty while its entrance is almost blocked“And by the cars. reason? I can’t I see understand no traffic people regulation, today; at they least don’t not here hesitate in Gulou.
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