盖茨比 www.thenanjinger.com Contents THE DECEMBER 2018 6 Contributors Volume#9/Issue#3 7 Poem 8 Editorial #81 9 Nanjing Nomads Your Travels in the Digital Realm 10 Nanjing’s Former Embassies Reliving Republican Glamour 15 Sino Gatsby Disposable Culture’s Flickering Green Light 18 Human on the Inside Phoenix Man #RichKidofChina 20 Chomping Thru China Shanghai Decadence 22 Their Home Expatria Third Culture Kids & their Glogal Impact 24 For Art’s Sake Warhol’s Disco Lights in China 25 Strainer Like Broccoli, Love Tea! Hate Cabbage, Love Coffee? 26 The Trip Tianmuhu Bamboo Sea 28 Our Space 42 The Gavel China’s All Singing, All Dancing Regulations 43 Metro Map 4 Introducing some of our www.thenanjinger.com contributors, editors & designers THE DECEMBER 2018 Our Editor-in-chief and Music Critic, Frank Hossack, Sponsor 主办单位 has been a radio host and producer for the past 34 SinoConnexion 贺福传媒 years, the past 25 of which working in media in Chi- na, in the process winning four New York Festivals Publisher 编辑出版 awards for his work, in the categories Best Top 40 The Nanjinger《南京人》杂志社 Format, Best Editing, Best Director and Best Culture & The Arts. Operating Organization 运营机构 Nanjing Hefu Cultural Media Co., Ltd. 贺福是我们杂志的编辑和音乐评论员，在过去的34年 南京贺福文化传媒有限公司 里一直从事电台主持和电台制片的工作。在中国有近 25年的媒体工作经验。工作期间他曾经四次获得过纽 Contributors 特约撰稿人 约传媒艺术节大奖，分别是世界前40强节目奖，最佳 Angela Chen 编辑奖，最佳导演奖以及最佳文化艺术奖。 Triona Ryan Maitiu Brallaghan As an Australian journalist living in Nanjing for many years, Renée Gray has a background in research, Columnists 专栏作家 print and online publishing, taking great pleasure in Francesca Leiper discovering more about Nanjing with every article. Carlo D’Andrea 作为在南京居住多年的澳大利亚新闻工作者，Renee Matthew Stedman Gray有着调研以及印刷品和线上出版物的工作背景。 她总是乐于在每篇文章里发现关于南京的内容。 Editor-in-chief 主编 Frank Hossack 贺福 Matthew Stedman has spent years living and working Executive Editor 副主编 in China. He has sold Chinese tea in the UK, and loves Renée Gray Beaumont 夏蕊 discussing the miraculous leaf with new (and sus- picious) audiences. He however never feels happier Graphic Design and Layout than when researching the product here in beautiful 平面设计与布局 South China. SinoConnexion 贺福传媒 Matthew Stedman在中国生活工作了多年。多年在中 Web: sinoconnexion.com 英两国从事茶叶贸易的他，喜欢和新读者讨论神奇的 东方树叶(虽然有时他的读者保持怀疑态度)。 没什么比 Concept & Design 构想与设计 在美丽的江南走访品尝各种茶叶更让他开心的事了。 封面构想与设计 Roy Ingram Legal columnist Carlo D’Andrea is Chair of the Legal & Competition Working group of the European Client Liason Coordinator Union Chamber of Commerce in China; Shanghai 客户联络协调员 Nancy Guo 郭蓓 Chapter, Coordinator of the Nanjing Working Group of the Italian Chamber of Commerce in China and Legal Consultant 法律顾问 has taught Chinese law (commercial and contractual) Ma Haipeng 马海鹏 at Rome 3 University. 法律作家代开乐担任中国欧盟商会上海分会法律与竞 General Enquires & Advertising: 争工作组主席，中国意大利商会劳动集团的协调员与 +86 25 58491159 曾经在罗马三大担任企业咨询课程中中国商法、合同 Email: [email protected] 法的课程教授。 Volume 9 / Issue 3 / December 2018 Roy Ingram has over 25 years experience working as “Gatsby” an artist and Creative Director. His early career was Copyright 2018, SinoConnexion Ltd. with agencies in London but for the past eight years Published in the United Kingdom ISSN 2051-9974 he has lived and worked in Nanjing. Roy先生有着超过25年的创意总监和艺术家的工作经 历。他早期的职业生涯是在伦敦的一家机构里开始 的，但是在八年前他决定来到南京生活工作。 6 e found her on Facebook. HFrom her profile pic he could see She had aged but not changed, That same slip of a faerie He had so adored was there atsby Still, in her eyes- in those lips... He just could not open her page. Was he wanting to find Her, pining and miserable, wasting away, Like the day he had left her? By Or happily married to life Maitiu Brallaghan ‘18 With a husband and three Adorable children but no memory G Of him or their years, tears and dreams? So it is that he still stands staring, In the peppery night at that shivering light From far, far over the vast gulf of time; Fretting at just what might have been then… And still smoulders, green, receding To a half-repressed spark That glows to a speck in a new day’s eye. 7 Love is the Drug . Scott Fitzgerald may have been resurgence in popularity of the anti a visionary or just plain lucky. His hero, at least from the point of view of Falmost 100-year-old manuscript disposable culture (p15-17). might have been a cautionary warning as to the American dream, but it also First and foremost, however, the paints an eerily accurate picture of decadence of the times so well today’s China. captured by Fitzgerald is on display in our opus this month. Enjoy “Nanjing’s Were it to be published today, Former Embassies; Reliving the the novel might as well be titled Republican Glamour”, from page 10. “#RichKidsofChina”. Angela Chen explains, on page 19. Welcome to “Gatsby” from The Nanjinger. Elsewhere, Triona Ryan dwells on the Ed. can the QR Code to visit The Nanjinger on WeChat, from where you Scan download a free PDF of any issue, find a full list of distribution points for hard copies or arrange a subscription to have The Nanjinger delivered to your home or office! This magazine is part of a family of English publications that together reach a large proportion of the foreign population living in Nanjing, along with a good dash of locals, comprising: The Nanjinger City Guide www.thenanjinger.com Facebook, WeChat, Twitter and Instagram accounts All of the above are owned and operated by HeFu Media, the Chinese subsidiary of SinoConnexion Ltd. www.sinoconnexion.com 8 NANJING Your Travels in the Digital Realm NOMADS See yourself on this page? #nanjingermagazine to be entered in our lucky draw! vaganova_snaps (29 Nov., 2018) Instagram Post. stevowashere (4 Dec., 2018) Instagram Post. Retrieved from https://www.instagram.com/p/Bqv4UFhAAgp/ Retrieved from https://www.instagram.com/p/Bq61HhfA6Xj/ ines.saopedro (29 Nov., 2018) Instagram Post. Retrieved from https://www.instagram.com/p/BqxIVUXgPMY/ haitao1990 (30 Nov., 2018) Instagram Post. Retrieved from https://www.instagram.com/p/BqyftO1loNw/ yiweishigeqingtong (28 Nov., 2018) Instagram Post. Received via WeChat from Udo Looser Retrieved from https://www.instagram.com/p/BqufvixnO0M/ 9 Embassies Former Nanjing’s Reliving Republican Glamour By Renée Gray Beaumont is so hard to imagine China’s flapping days of luxury; Nanjing’s pockets of glitz and glamour, before it all took a turn for the worse, only to IT revel in its renaissance a century later. All too often, modern Chinese history is encapsulated in episodes such as the Cultural Revolution and the War of Resistance against Japan. If we want to remember a world which has been forgotten and erased, along with its bourgeois ways, we need to dig further. Once upon a time, Chinese high society swung to gramophones, sipped Champagne and enjoyed fine dining. Let us for a moment contemplate what it must have been like for those who came long before us; the diplomats and their families, many of whom brought their Victorian manner to mainland China. 10 The former French Embassy, the most beautiful structure on Gaoyunling Alley. he Nanjinger has this month explored the This Victorian mansion, that takes up 1,765.90 square very buildings left standing where these metres, is now a restaurant, used in the past as a people lived and worked; the city’s former hospital, as well as a hotel. Elegant, luxurious and Tembassies. As capital of China during what very British, the building is one of the only former is now known as the Republican Era (1912-1949), embassies (perhaps beside that of the Dutch) to have Nanjing was home to a multitude of embassies, kept its original structure and feel to this day. their dignitaries and staff serving within, many of which built in a European manner, mirroring their country’s architectural preferences. Much of Nanjing today simply did not exist back then, with the exception of locations such as Xinjiekou and Fuzimiao. Sometimes referred to nowadays as the old embassy district, back then, Gulou was literally the new kid on the block, home to the most important of government bodies, buildings, embassies and people of note, as Nanjing settled into its role as capital of the world’s newest and most populous nation. Among Nanjing’s former official residences of foreign ambassadors, none can compare to the extravagance and magnificence of that which was the British Embassy. Located at 185 Huju Bei Lu, it was built in 1919 and rented by the British Embassy during the Republican Era from 1924 to 1950, after the capital was moved to Beijing. In 1953, it began to be used by the Jiangsu Provincial People’s Government. 11 As one approaches the mansion, it becomes easy to where many an important African, Middle Eastern imagine life as an expat in the 1920s. Any trace of and European diplomat sat sipping tea, where China melts away as one ascends the white stairs of bridge was played and national affairs debated. the building. Upon opening its wooden doors and standing in the splendid hallway, decked with red hen the Kuomintang government declared carpets, sparkling chandeliers and elegant paintings, W Nanjing capital of the Republic of China, one is transported into another time. the government’s “central plan” was enacted. Included therein was the building (and renting) of As I stood there with my eyes closed, I could smell embassies, villas and compounds. Where Ninghai ageing wood and cigarette-stained furniture; hear Lu meets Jiangsu Lu and its surroundings is the the whistle of of an upbeat trumpet coming from recently-renovated Yihe Mansions compound, the gramophone in the corner of the hall. It was easy a century ago home to many other embassies. to imagine staff buzzing all around me, while passing These days one can purchase a ticket and take by as I walked up the staircase were men in penguin a look around the mansions, which now serve as tuxedos with thick moustaches; they strolled past with museums and exhibition halls.