When push comes to shove,the Star Wars franchise most popular character could well be that loveable little trash-can on wheels R2-D2.Yes,Han Solo may get all the cool lines and Luke Skywalker gets to ersave the day an...When push comes to shove,the Star Wars franchise most popular character could well be that loveable little trash-can on wheels R2-D2.Yes,Han Solo may get all the cool lines and Luke Skywalker gets to ersave the day and kiss his sister,but it's R2-D2 who provides the saga's synthetic heart.And,more importantly perhaps,in terms of merchandising,hezs extremely flexible,as his rotund robotics lend themselves well to more gadgets and electronic toys than you can shake a severed Jar Jar Binks head at.展开更多
With the weather just about on the cusp of spring and winter-that magical time of year when the temperature often hovers around that warm and breezy sweet-spot-that's have been feeling decidedly sporty of late,and...With the weather just about on the cusp of spring and winter-that magical time of year when the temperature often hovers around that warm and breezy sweet-spot-that's have been feeling decidedly sporty of late,and our June edition reflects this sudden urge to get moving and work up a sweat.展开更多
Stepping onto Shenxianju's mist engulfed rope bridge,a 150-metre high catwalk that plunges into a thick legion of spectral white clouds like a majestic dagger,you can't help but be overawed by the place.Far aw...Stepping onto Shenxianju's mist engulfed rope bridge,a 150-metre high catwalk that plunges into a thick legion of spectral white clouds like a majestic dagger,you can't help but be overawed by the place.Far away from the big-city bustle that so many of us have become accustomed to,one feels an eerie kind of solitude wash over them;a kind of mental nothingness that reflects the vast emptiness stretching out before you.展开更多
Sometimes we all need a getaway.Whether it be from the stresses of our jobs,from the pressure of urban living or just from the routines of our everyday lives.Lucky for us then that Zhejiang Provinee has a number of fa...Sometimes we all need a getaway.Whether it be from the stresses of our jobs,from the pressure of urban living or just from the routines of our everyday lives.Lucky for us then that Zhejiang Provinee has a number of fantastic places that we can all run away to without breaking the bank or traveling for miles on end.展开更多
EACH MONTHE THAT'S WELL BRAVE THE WIND,RAIN,SUN,SNOW-AND WHATEVE ELSE THE GODS WISH TO THROW AT US-IN ORDER TO CHECK OUT EVERY SINGLE STOP ALONG THE CITY'S YEAR-OLD METRO SYSTEM,STARTING WITH LINE 1.FROM XlANG...EACH MONTHE THAT'S WELL BRAVE THE WIND,RAIN,SUN,SNOW-AND WHATEVE ELSE THE GODS WISH TO THROW AT US-IN ORDER TO CHECK OUT EVERY SINGLE STOP ALONG THE CITY'S YEAR-OLD METRO SYSTEM,STARTING WITH LINE 1.FROM XlANGHU TO LlNPING WE'LL BE THERE,CAMERA AT THE READY,TO LET YOU KNOW WHAT’S OUT THERE.WHY?BECAUSE THERE'S MORE TO THIS CITY THAN MEETS THE EYE,AND WHAT BETTER WAY TO EXPLORE IT THAN FROM THE COMFORT OF OUR SHINY NEW METRO SYSTEM?展开更多
Foilowing on from last month's ‘Made in Hangzhou’feature,May's edition of that's China sees yet more focus being placed on local artists and creative visionaries who add colour to the nation's cultur...Foilowing on from last month's ‘Made in Hangzhou’feature,May's edition of that's China sees yet more focus being placed on local artists and creative visionaries who add colour to the nation's cultural life via their tremendous originality and verve.Local artist Zhou Yilun,Duku editor-in-chief Lao Liu and the Shanghai based ink and wash painting artist Li Zhimi-whose work graces this month's cover-make up the bulk of May's spring seented edition.展开更多
Ask most Hangzhou expats about Ningbo and you'll most probably get blank stares in return.That or an indifferent shrug of the shoulders.Less glamorous than the equidistant Shanghai and not as topographically compe...Ask most Hangzhou expats about Ningbo and you'll most probably get blank stares in return.That or an indifferent shrug of the shoulders.Less glamorous than the equidistant Shanghai and not as topographically compelling as,say Wenzhou or Suzhou,Zhejiang's second city struggles to attract us Hangzhouvians to its surprisingly dense urban streets,and the truth is that it's a damn shame.展开更多
Alighting the train at Line l'a Qaosi station,you'd be forgiven for thinking that you'd got off at the wrong stop.Dusty roads and low-slung,hastily built dwellings line up along Qiaomo Road and,all-in-all,...Alighting the train at Line l'a Qaosi station,you'd be forgiven for thinking that you'd got off at the wrong stop.Dusty roads and low-slung,hastily built dwellings line up along Qiaomo Road and,all-in-all,you feel about as far away from Sweden's verdant grasslands and snowy hillocks as humanely possible.But,nevertheless,this unlikely locale is about to become very well-known indeed thanks to the much anticipated arrival of Hangzhou's brand-spanking new IKEA,a home furnishing wonderland that looks set to revolutionise millions of Hangzhouvian homes once it opens its doors on the 25th June.展开更多
"Well-buried treasure can often be the most dazzling kind..."When you are told that you're going to be visiting a town known as The Home Of The Immortals(Xianju),your expectations naturally rocket to the..."Well-buried treasure can often be the most dazzling kind..."When you are told that you're going to be visiting a town known as The Home Of The Immortals(Xianju),your expectations naturally rocket to the stratosphere.展开更多
EACH MONTH THAT'S WILL BRAVE THE WIND,RAIN,SUN,SNOW-AND WHATEVER ELSE THE GODS WISH TO THROW AT US-IN ORDER TO CHECK OUT EVERY SINGLE STOP ALONG THE CITY'S YEAR-OLD METRO SYSTEM,STARTING WITH LINE 1.FROM XLANG...EACH MONTH THAT'S WILL BRAVE THE WIND,RAIN,SUN,SNOW-AND WHATEVER ELSE THE GODS WISH TO THROW AT US-IN ORDER TO CHECK OUT EVERY SINGLE STOP ALONG THE CITY'S YEAR-OLD METRO SYSTEM,STARTING WITH LINE 1.FROM XLANGHU TO LINPING WE'LL BE THERE,CAMERA AT THE READY,TO LET YOU KNOW WHAT'S OUT THERE.WHY?BECAUSE THERE'S MORE TO THIS CITY THAN MEETS THE EYE,AND WHAT BETTER WAY TO EXPLORE IT THAN FROM THE COMFORT OF OUR SHINY NEW METRO SYSTEM?展开更多
WHAT'S DIFFERENT ABOUT YINFENC IS THAT IT FEELS LIKE THEY'RE BUILDING AN ACTUAL CITY HERE,AND YOU CAN SEE A MINI-METROPOLIS RISING BEFORE YOUR VERY EYES.
After a night on the tiles with the"Snapshots of Zhejiang"photography team,I headed out into the Xianju morning light in search of breakfast and coffee.Now I wouldn't exactly consider myself as a fussy e...After a night on the tiles with the"Snapshots of Zhejiang"photography team,I headed out into the Xianju morning light in search of breakfast and coffee.Now I wouldn't exactly consider myself as a fussy eater...but sometimes a man knows what he wants and he'll be damned if he can't get it,okay?That particular morning I was on the hunt for a)one of those Nescafe‘Smoovlatte's'(their spelling,not mine)and b)and something vaguely meaty and filling to shove into my lip-lined cake hole.展开更多
A fter last month's revelations-endless urbanity!gleaming glass towers!smooth air wheel friendly tarmac!I was•sure that my luck was bound to end this month and that,as I continued my way along Line 2's nether ...A fter last month's revelations-endless urbanity!gleaming glass towers!smooth air wheel friendly tarmac!I was•sure that my luck was bound to end this month and that,as I continued my way along Line 2's nether regions,I'd be faced with a cityscape that gets more apocalyptic with each passing station.展开更多
Bangladeshi artist and current China National Academy of Art Masters Degree student Warior Rahman Sami-or Sami as he likes to be known-is blessed with a pair of lovely light brown eyes and a charming smile.Meeting up ...Bangladeshi artist and current China National Academy of Art Masters Degree student Warior Rahman Sami-or Sami as he likes to be known-is blessed with a pair of lovely light brown eyes and a charming smile.Meeting up to discuss his recent exhibition,‘Intuitive Cosmos’,at the elegantly lit Sunlong Art Dimension gallery,it turns out that Samfs talents extend fair beyond his twinkling eyes and welcoming grin.展开更多
When I think back to my childhood,some of my earliest memories are oddly linked with images of Chinese mines,Chinese miners and gargantuan mining machinery.My father spent a fair amount of time in northern China worki...When I think back to my childhood,some of my earliest memories are oddly linked with images of Chinese mines,Chinese miners and gargantuan mining machinery.My father spent a fair amount of time in northern China working as a mining electrician in the mid-80s you see,and when hefd return from his trips he'd often sit me on his lap and show me some pictures of his faraway,underground adventures.展开更多
Someone,somewhere,Tve decided,has obviously taken a shine to me-or to MetroBoy at least.Every time I head out to explore Hangzhou's rapidly expanding subterranean public transport network-and,more importantly,the ...Someone,somewhere,Tve decided,has obviously taken a shine to me-or to MetroBoy at least.Every time I head out to explore Hangzhou's rapidly expanding subterranean public transport network-and,more importantly,the areas it leads its patrons to-I'm met by azure blue skies,gentle breezes and agreeable temperatures these days.Our dear city is not always this splendorous-trust me-but on days like this it's hard to imagine a finer place to be.展开更多
On an unusually cold and wet Monday afternoon last month-one of those kinds of days that make you wish you could stay in bed all day-I met up with Sarah Liu,a striking young women whose company Soul Needs Dance,has be...On an unusually cold and wet Monday afternoon last month-one of those kinds of days that make you wish you could stay in bed all day-I met up with Sarah Liu,a striking young women whose company Soul Needs Dance,has been making waves in Hangzhou for quite a while now.One of China's original belly dancing pioneers-and the first person to establish the discipline in Hangzhou-Sarah began practicing this most exotic of performing arts in 2001,and has been teadiing the craft to countless happy women for over a decade.展开更多
文摘When push comes to shove,the Star Wars franchise most popular character could well be that loveable little trash-can on wheels R2-D2.Yes,Han Solo may get all the cool lines and Luke Skywalker gets to ersave the day and kiss his sister,but it's R2-D2 who provides the saga's synthetic heart.And,more importantly perhaps,in terms of merchandising,hezs extremely flexible,as his rotund robotics lend themselves well to more gadgets and electronic toys than you can shake a severed Jar Jar Binks head at.
文摘With the weather just about on the cusp of spring and winter-that magical time of year when the temperature often hovers around that warm and breezy sweet-spot-that's have been feeling decidedly sporty of late,and our June edition reflects this sudden urge to get moving and work up a sweat.
文摘Stepping onto Shenxianju's mist engulfed rope bridge,a 150-metre high catwalk that plunges into a thick legion of spectral white clouds like a majestic dagger,you can't help but be overawed by the place.Far away from the big-city bustle that so many of us have become accustomed to,one feels an eerie kind of solitude wash over them;a kind of mental nothingness that reflects the vast emptiness stretching out before you.
文摘Sometimes we all need a getaway.Whether it be from the stresses of our jobs,from the pressure of urban living or just from the routines of our everyday lives.Lucky for us then that Zhejiang Provinee has a number of fantastic places that we can all run away to without breaking the bank or traveling for miles on end.
文摘EACH MONTHE THAT'S WELL BRAVE THE WIND,RAIN,SUN,SNOW-AND WHATEVE ELSE THE GODS WISH TO THROW AT US-IN ORDER TO CHECK OUT EVERY SINGLE STOP ALONG THE CITY'S YEAR-OLD METRO SYSTEM,STARTING WITH LINE 1.FROM XlANGHU TO LlNPING WE'LL BE THERE,CAMERA AT THE READY,TO LET YOU KNOW WHAT’S OUT THERE.WHY?BECAUSE THERE'S MORE TO THIS CITY THAN MEETS THE EYE,AND WHAT BETTER WAY TO EXPLORE IT THAN FROM THE COMFORT OF OUR SHINY NEW METRO SYSTEM?
文摘Foilowing on from last month's ‘Made in Hangzhou’feature,May's edition of that's China sees yet more focus being placed on local artists and creative visionaries who add colour to the nation's cultural life via their tremendous originality and verve.Local artist Zhou Yilun,Duku editor-in-chief Lao Liu and the Shanghai based ink and wash painting artist Li Zhimi-whose work graces this month's cover-make up the bulk of May's spring seented edition.
文摘Ask most Hangzhou expats about Ningbo and you'll most probably get blank stares in return.That or an indifferent shrug of the shoulders.Less glamorous than the equidistant Shanghai and not as topographically compelling as,say Wenzhou or Suzhou,Zhejiang's second city struggles to attract us Hangzhouvians to its surprisingly dense urban streets,and the truth is that it's a damn shame.
文摘Alighting the train at Line l'a Qaosi station,you'd be forgiven for thinking that you'd got off at the wrong stop.Dusty roads and low-slung,hastily built dwellings line up along Qiaomo Road and,all-in-all,you feel about as far away from Sweden's verdant grasslands and snowy hillocks as humanely possible.But,nevertheless,this unlikely locale is about to become very well-known indeed thanks to the much anticipated arrival of Hangzhou's brand-spanking new IKEA,a home furnishing wonderland that looks set to revolutionise millions of Hangzhouvian homes once it opens its doors on the 25th June.
文摘"Well-buried treasure can often be the most dazzling kind..."When you are told that you're going to be visiting a town known as The Home Of The Immortals(Xianju),your expectations naturally rocket to the stratosphere.
文摘EACH MONTH THAT'S WILL BRAVE THE WIND,RAIN,SUN,SNOW-AND WHATEVER ELSE THE GODS WISH TO THROW AT US-IN ORDER TO CHECK OUT EVERY SINGLE STOP ALONG THE CITY'S YEAR-OLD METRO SYSTEM,STARTING WITH LINE 1.FROM XLANGHU TO LINPING WE'LL BE THERE,CAMERA AT THE READY,TO LET YOU KNOW WHAT'S OUT THERE.WHY?BECAUSE THERE'S MORE TO THIS CITY THAN MEETS THE EYE,AND WHAT BETTER WAY TO EXPLORE IT THAN FROM THE COMFORT OF OUR SHINY NEW METRO SYSTEM?
文摘WHAT'S DIFFERENT ABOUT YINFENC IS THAT IT FEELS LIKE THEY'RE BUILDING AN ACTUAL CITY HERE,AND YOU CAN SEE A MINI-METROPOLIS RISING BEFORE YOUR VERY EYES.
文摘After a night on the tiles with the"Snapshots of Zhejiang"photography team,I headed out into the Xianju morning light in search of breakfast and coffee.Now I wouldn't exactly consider myself as a fussy eater...but sometimes a man knows what he wants and he'll be damned if he can't get it,okay?That particular morning I was on the hunt for a)one of those Nescafe‘Smoovlatte's'(their spelling,not mine)and b)and something vaguely meaty and filling to shove into my lip-lined cake hole.
文摘A fter last month's revelations-endless urbanity!gleaming glass towers!smooth air wheel friendly tarmac!I was•sure that my luck was bound to end this month and that,as I continued my way along Line 2's nether regions,I'd be faced with a cityscape that gets more apocalyptic with each passing station.
文摘Bangladeshi artist and current China National Academy of Art Masters Degree student Warior Rahman Sami-or Sami as he likes to be known-is blessed with a pair of lovely light brown eyes and a charming smile.Meeting up to discuss his recent exhibition,‘Intuitive Cosmos’,at the elegantly lit Sunlong Art Dimension gallery,it turns out that Samfs talents extend fair beyond his twinkling eyes and welcoming grin.
文摘When I think back to my childhood,some of my earliest memories are oddly linked with images of Chinese mines,Chinese miners and gargantuan mining machinery.My father spent a fair amount of time in northern China working as a mining electrician in the mid-80s you see,and when hefd return from his trips he'd often sit me on his lap and show me some pictures of his faraway,underground adventures.
文摘Someone,somewhere,Tve decided,has obviously taken a shine to me-or to MetroBoy at least.Every time I head out to explore Hangzhou's rapidly expanding subterranean public transport network-and,more importantly,the areas it leads its patrons to-I'm met by azure blue skies,gentle breezes and agreeable temperatures these days.Our dear city is not always this splendorous-trust me-but on days like this it's hard to imagine a finer place to be.
文摘On an unusually cold and wet Monday afternoon last month-one of those kinds of days that make you wish you could stay in bed all day-I met up with Sarah Liu,a striking young women whose company Soul Needs Dance,has been making waves in Hangzhou for quite a while now.One of China's original belly dancing pioneers-and the first person to establish the discipline in Hangzhou-Sarah began practicing this most exotic of performing arts in 2001,and has been teadiing the craft to countless happy women for over a decade.
