PLIGHT OF THE PORPOISES P8 BREAKBREAK INTOINTO PUBLPUBLIISHSHIINGNG GGETET YOURYOUR WRITINGWRITING IINTONTO PRINTPRINT ECOLOGICAL ECONOMY CN 53-1197/F ISSN1673-0178 IRISH WIN BALL TICKETS!P20 MARCH 02 Beijing Folk: The man in the glass box CITY SCENE Going Underground: Military Museum Scene & Heard: Snapshots of extroverts … plus your chance to win great prizes ECOLOGICAL ECONOMY 08 生态经济(英文版) ECOLOGY Feature: Who’s to blame for the impending demise of 主管单位: 云南出版集团公司 the Yangtze River’s finless porpoises? The answer may 主办单位: 云南教育出版社 surprise you. 出版: 生态经济杂志社 社长: 李安泰 主编: 高晓铃 12 地址: 昆明市环城西路609号云南新闻出版大楼4楼 Authors tell us how to impress publishers. Publishers 邮政编码: 650034 COVER FEATURE dish on what makes a good pitch. Plus, take a look at 国内统一刊号: CN53-1197/F the fifty finalists in the “Your Beijing in Just Six Words” 国际标准刊号 : ISSN1673 – 0178 contest. Editorial Planning Manager Jonathan White 21 Deputy Editorial Planning Manager Iain Shaw What’s New: 4corners, Florence, Xiangtianxia Hot Pot, Style and Living Editorial Planner Tiffany Wang Dining Da Giuseppe, Dog On Fire and Ouest Arts & Culture Editorial Planner Marilyn Mai Feature: Potatoes of the world, unite Explore Editorial Planner Lauren McCarthy Taste Test: Gooey chewy local specialties Contributing Editor Tom O’Malley A Taste of Home: Thailand Visual Planning Joey Guo 33 Contributors Jovan Belev, Badr Benjelloun, Michelle What’s New: The Bar at Migas, Hidden Lounge and Dai, George Ding, Charisma Lee, Kyle Mullin, Josh Ong, BARS & CLUBS Offside Nick Otto, Susan Sheng, Edward Ragg, Carleen Wang, Party Like A: Table of Contents Max Wu Clubhouse: Cut Chemist Advertising Agency True Run Media Mastermind: Anthony Tao of The Kro’s Nest 全国广告总代理: 深度体验国际广告(北京)有限公司 北京广告代理: 北京爱见达广告有限公司 39 地址: 北京市朝阳区建国路93号万达广场10号楼2801室 Have You Met: Goober Gun Playlist: Tizzy Bac 邮政编码: 100022 MUSIC 电话: 5820 7700, 5820 7100 Livehouse: Death Cab for Cutie 传真: 5820 7895 … plus reviews of Mr. Graceless, Residence A and Il Divo Room 2801, Building 10, Wanda Plaza, 93 Jianguo Lu, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100022 41 General Manager Michael Wester What’s New: Luxbible, The Wellness Spa and STYLE Unianswer Operations Director Toni Ma Inspect a Gadget: Body metrics Editorial Director Jerry Chan Get the Look: Parkas Chief Art Director Jacopo Della Ragione Atelier: Manchit Au Art Director Susu Luo Designers Helen He, Yuki Jia, Li Xing 45 Features: Gary Shteyngart has done his homework Marketing Manager Shana Zhang ARTS & CULTURE on Beijing, Yu Hua thinks it’s all gotten too rowdy Event and Brand Manager Victoria Yang and Gu Dexin presents pungent art Marketing Executives Cao Yue, Jiang Lei Bookshelf: Luka Lesson Finance & Admin Manager Lisa Ji Cashier & Admin Executive Judy Zhao 49 HR & Admin Assistant Amy Liu IT Manager James Wang SPORTS IT Support Engineer Kavin Lu Feature: A new season of CSL logos Web Deputy Managing Editor Lauren McCarthy Web Editor Max Wu Photographers Judy Zhou, Sui, Nature Zhang 51 Sales Manager Ivy Wang Q&A: Jinde Charities Sales Account Executives Carren Andreo-Winters, LIVING Hands-On: Flower arranging is not as easy as it looks Zi Yu, Ashley Lendrum, Hailie Song, Jackie Yu, Playdate: Snowboarding with Alan Wong Sophia Zhou Sales Assistants Phoebe Li, Veronica Li, Naomy Liu, Amy Sun 53 Distribution Jenny Wang, Victoria Wang Reception Yu Yang EXPLORE Long Weekend: Macau General Inquiries: 5820 7700, 5820 7100 Feature: Hong Kong Distribution 5820 7700 Sales & Marketing 5820 7700 Fax: 5820 7895 56 Email: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; listings WHAT’S HAPPENING: The month at a glance [email protected]; [email protected] EVENTS: Day-by-day listings for March Complimentary copy, not for sale. 部分非卖品，仅限赠阅 THE DIRECTORY: Venues, venues, venues 84 Peking Man: George pays the price for not CLASSIFIEDS eating his vegetables http://www.issuu.com/thebeijinger http://weibo.com/tbjmagazine MARCH 2012 1 CITY SCENE LIES, DAMN LIES AND ... The Titles of China Memoirs This wordcloud highlights the most common words among the titles of over 50 well-known China memoirs. GENERATION GAP EDITOR'S LETTER y parents, having both been teachers, out what real footballers named as their favorite always encouraged me to read, though meal. The answer always being “steak and chips” Mthey may have regretted it occasionally. was never a disappointment. Did you I would read the dictionary for hours at a time. I then moved on to more literary football enter (Not specifically looking for smut to peddle in magazines (FourFourTwo and World Soccer), music your six hushed whispers on the playground, though I’d magazines (the NME, Melody Maker, Metal Ham- be lying if I said that never happened.) There was mer, Kerrang!, The Source, Hip Hop Connection), lad words? We are not friends. the summer holiday in Spain when I was sent out mags (FHM, Loaded) and outright propaganda to play in the sun whenever they caught me lying (fanzines United We Stand and Red Issue). At some Check on the couch studying the cards from a travel edi- point it dawned on me that it wasn’t just the Weibo. tion of Trivial Pursuit. Lord alone knows what they subject matter but the writing that interested me, thought when my 12-year-old self bought the and the writers themselves. recently published biography of Jeffrey Dahmer. I began to put faces and backgrounds to In fairness, it was very cheap and I’d also been bylines. I found out that a fanzine editor could brought up to value a bargain. become a proper journalist (the excellent Andy There was always something to read in my Mitten) and bought some CDs off eBay from the house: shelves full of books, newspapers every HHC editor (I paid him in postage stamps). It day and magazines whenever they were pub- became truly apparent that writing was something lished. Breakfasts were never so quick – nor the done by real people. school day so interminable – as on the days that The Internet has since changed everything. I Our cover my magazine had arrived in the morning. All I no longer buy magazines but I’ve never lost inter- photo was wanted was to read the new Beano or Sega Power est in the printed word. I still can’t believe it when shot at The waiting for me at home. it feels that someone has written an article just for Bookworm by The very idea of magazines was fascinating; me. I can’t imagine anyone feeling any different. Judy Zhou. I could never get over the fact that someone Even if print dies, words will not. This month, we’d Thanks to our would write in such depth about something like to help you bring yours to life. models. that, at the time, was the most interesting thing in the world to me. My first subscription must have been to Roy of the Rovers, a football-themed comics weekly. Later, I graduated to both Match Jonathan White and Shoot! I always looked forward to finding Managing Editor 2 MARCH 2012 The Titles of China Memoirs MARCH 2012 3 SCENE & HEARD Scottish electro-pop star Calvin Harris played at The One Club on Feb 18. Photos by Abdel Beldy Hilton Beijing held its annual pancake race for Shrove Tuesday on Feb 21. Photos courtesy of Hilton Beijing Shanghai-based DJ Conrank brought drum & bass, dubstep and more to Lantern on Belgian DJs Attar! and Mickey teamed up with Feb 18. Photos by Albert Louis Albaladejo Beijing’s Neon crew on Jan 14 for Take Me to Belgium at Haze. Photos courtesy of Haze 4 MARCH 2012 D-22 held their final Zoomin’ Night on Jan 10. Photos by Michelle Dai The Wings of Music 2012 charity event at Millennium Residences raised funds for underprivileged children on Jan 14. Photos courtesy of the organizers Oakwood Residence Beijing held a cocktail-making class for its residents on Jan 31 in the Mediterraneo Lounge Bar. Photo courtesy of Oakwood Residence Westin Financial Street General Manager Charlie Dang with violinist Nigel Kennedy. Photo courtesy of Westin Financial Street China World Hotel welcomed the Year of the Dragon with a traditional lion dance on Jan 23. Photo courtesy of China World Hotel MARCH 2012 5 SMASHING RECORDS THE CHALLENGE: BALANCING PENCILS e’re always getting called pencil pushers by the other departments. We thought we’d show them who was a pencil pusher by breaking Wthe Guinness World Record for Most Pencils Balanced On End In One Minute. At the very least we hoped it might be quite good practice for the inevitable return of chopsticks in one of our future record attempts. The rules are simple: Place standard-size commercially available pencils on a flat, hard surface. Pick them up and balance them one at a time on their unsharpened end using only one hand. The other hand must be behind your back at all times. The pencils must be standing for at least five seconds after the minute has expired to count towards the total. The current record is 31 and was set by Velentina Pagano in Venice on April 8, 2011. HERE’S HOW WE DID Marilyn, Arts & Culture Editor: 10 pencils Ryan, Intern: 9 pencils Lauren, Web Editor: 8 pencils Iain, Deputy Managing Editor: 7 pencils Max, Assistant Web Editor: 7 pencils Jonathan, Managing Editor: 5 pencils Tiffany, Style and Living Editor: 5 pencils Judy, Photographer: 1 pencil TIPS AND STRATEGIES • Buy new pencils. Ours were old and we found out the hard way that trying to balance a pencil on the chewed end is not easy. • Remaining calm is easier said than done. Still, the more flustered you are, the more likely you are to knock over your hard work.