Beijing Today (January 20, 2012)

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by  Beijing Youth Daily Group

Enter the Dragon Year
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Beijing’s small restaurants are closing for the holidays as waitresses and cooks head home. While meals may be becoming difficult to
find, those who choose to remain in the capital through the holiday have a splendid week ahead. The city’s parks, temples and cultural
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Miffed shoppers
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY Page 4
January 20 2012-January 26 2012 Artist leads chuck eggs at
NO. 554 CN11-0120 organic effort Apple store
HTTP://WWW.BEIJINGTODAY.COM.CN Emi Uemura
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CHIEF EDITOR: can share her pas-
JIAN RONG
NEWS EDITOR: sion for safe and
YU SHANSHAN
DESIGNER:YANG GEN sustainable food.
Bloggers weigh
Regulators may
in on fashion
close rogue
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gold markets
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Year of China
in Germany
The China Phil- New film shows
harmonic Orches-
tra is headed to how kids see
Berlin to kick off a
childhood
year of 150 cultural
exchanges.
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January 20 2012
2 City warms up for
Brief
Han Han denies
ghostwriting rumor
Spring Festival A well-known blogger has
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wrote his novels.
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the Beijing Youth Daily reported
this week.
The 29-year-old, who in addition
to being a bestselling writer is also
a professional rally driver, has been
a controversial gure ever since
he published his rst novel Triple
Door in 2000. His latest essays dis-
cussing revolution, democracy and
freedom, by contrast, have been
criticized as mild.
Mai Tian, the former CEO of
online private loan platform Mayi,
posted a story on his popular blog
last Sunday saying that Han’s public
image was entirely created by his
father Han Renjun and his publisher,
Lu Jinpo.
Mai said Triple Door was ghost-
written by his father and won a
prize in a competition because his
father was an acquaintance of the
judge. Mai said another 13 essays on
Han’s blog were likely ghostwritten
by others in 2008 because the dates
of their publication coincided with
dates he was off racing.
Mai asked how Han was able to
publish essays on his blog and take
part in races at the same time.
Han responded to the accusations
on his own blog, saying, “I have been
honest and upright since I entered
the (literary) circle. I have a clear
Ditan Park, one of the most popular temple fairs, is just steps away from Yonghegong Lama Temple on North conscience.”
Second Ring Road. CFP Photo Apple Beijing store
By Zhao Hongyi ates the popular chain restaurants customers grab all the goods without pelted with eggs
Spring Festival is around the Kaorouyuan, Kaorouji, Youyishun, even inspecting them like they nor- Apple became a victim of its own
corner, and Beijing’s restaurants are E’mei and Hongbinglou. mally would.” success after the botched launch of
preparing to face this special holiday. Fengzeyuan is famous of its Many younger hosts are purchas- its iPhone 4S on January 13 led it to
While in the past, Chinese fam- Shangdong dishes. It offers home ing these items online, especially ofce suspend sales.
ilies began preparing food for their delivery banquets priced at 1,588 and workers who will not begin their vaca- Would-be customers who waited
reunion banquets weeks or months in 2,688 yuan. The Shanxi dishes Jin- tions until January 23. overnight as temperatures dropped
advance, many today prefer to leave yang Restaurant promises for home Other purchases include rice cakes, to -9 degrees C reacted with fury after
the details up to a restaurant. delivery are priced the same as in the wines and prepared foods. the company’s main store in Sanli-
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n utive general manager of Meizhou is also popular. Roast Duck King is of traditional arts, snacks, toys, books handsets at stores that did open and
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ng lled red envelopes. of the festival. gather the most foreign performers. tied man said over a bullhorn that
ua While elder family members prefer Special purchases for Spring Festi- Organizers actively solicit the cap- the phone wouldn’t go on sale today,
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A the corridors – have been booked,” Baked or steamed cakes, rice balls, and has been organized yearly since was pelted with eggs by the crowd.
D Guo said. roasted seeds, nuts and candies have the 1980s. “This is a debacle,” Shaun Rein,
Guo suggested that anyone who long been an important tradition for There are a number of other managing director of China Market
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hasn’t made a reservation should look Chinese families on the festival eve. temple fairs in the city, including Research Group, a Shanghai-based
T into home delivery or leave their Most families stay up together until Beijing International Sculpture Park retail advising company, said in a
number in case of a cancellation. midnight to welcome the rst day of Temple Fair, Yuanmingyuan Royal phone interview today. “Everybody
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Many of this year’s reservations the new lunar year. Temple Fair, Changdian Temple Fair, knows there will be massive num-
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I said Chen Siliang, assistant general goods even a month prior to the fes- Fair, Donyuemiao Spring Festival kind of a launch. This shows very
J manager of Huating Food & tival,” said Wang Jingzhi, a sales- Cultural Temple Fair and Lotus Pool poor retail management ability.”
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January 20 2012
End of gold rush? 3
Chinese value
cash-at-hand
Regulators tighten control of gold exchange amid trading By Huang Daohen s
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Western Union, polled Chi-
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ferred money in and out of
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Chinese consumers attach
much importance to whether
money can be received
quickly, the report said. Quick
access to cash allows people
to solve urgent problems and
make quick decisions, even
when anticipated expendi-
Gold is especially popular with shoppers at Caibai this year. CFP Photo tures may not be immediate.
By Huang Daohen a little bit, I decided to buy it That these have pushed business. Gao Jianhua, president
No asset is safe. The slug- now,” Chen said. gold to record prices worries To buy or not to and general manager for
gish stock market, restrained Chen bought a gold pendant regulators. Should consumers invest in western China and Mongo-
housing industry and surging and the promotional 12-percent On December 27, the Peo- gold? Zhao Xiao, economics lia, agreed. Many Chinese
ination have left investors no discount saved her 800 yuan. ple’s Bank of China, the cen- professor at University of Sci- people see cash as a token of
safe option save the yellow Not only did Beijingers tral bank, together with the ence and Technology Beijing, condence and pride.
metal: gold. show keen interest, but some Ministry of Public Security and said yes. “When parents receive
Although gold prices customers have been travel- other regulators, issued a notice Zhao said no commodities money from their sons or
remained high last year, the ling to the capital from neigh- saying that gold exchanges out- are safe, and the only choice daughters working overseas
precious metal still traded at boring cities to take advantage sides of two in Shanghai are to to hedge risks is to hold hard and share it with their
a record level, spawning of the cheap prices. be banned. currency like gold. Zhao, also neighbors, they feel proud,”
multiple unauthorized gold Caibai said its business “No local authorities, institu- a consultant to an investing Gao said.
exchanges to capitalize on increased more than a half tions or individuals are allowed rm, urged his clients to buy Chinese people, Gao said,
investors’ insecurity. from last year over the three- to set up a gold exchange or more gold. still see cash as the most
But regulators are not happy day New Year’s holiday, with trading center,” the notice pub- “You have a growing appropriate gift for close
about the competition. sales volume totalling 50 mil- lished on the central bank’s middle class that has increas- family members to maintain
Late last year, the central lion yuan. website said. ing disposable income,” he connections.
bank ordered that all gold Although the store dropped The notice said that the said. “That may affect the gold The country is the world’s
exchanges, apart from the of- the price to 390 yuan per gram, Shanghai Gold Exchange and exchange somewhat, but in second largest recipient of
cial one in Shanghai, cease oper- that is still nearly 50 yuan the Shanghai Futures Exchange the long run it would help the remittances. In 2010, the
ations as part of a crackdown higher than last Christmas. The are enough to meet domestic market to grow.” trans-border remittances
on illegal deals. spot gold price went through investors’ demand for spot gold Before the central bank’s market in China reached
Will this be the end of the a decade-rally and touched a and futures trading. move, many experts worried $50 billion.
gold rush? record of more than $1,900 per Other existing exchanges or that the gold boom was a spec- “China has been an
Gold fever at year end ounce early last September. It trading centers were ordered ulative bubble and discouraged important market for West-
Apple’s latest gadget, the declined about 20 percent since to stop offering new services, the public from buying. ern Union, considering the
iPhone 4s, is not the only gift then to around $1,600. and closed down. But Zhao said the current volume of the country’s over- n
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that people are lining up for. “In recent years, the gold Senior ofcials at the cen- demand is healthy, and is a seas migrants,” Gao said. G
The recent decline in gold price has kept rising in Bei- tral bank cited by Xinhua sign of a cultural and social According to a report by ng
prices, together with year-end jing, so the decrease has been said the move aims to harden imperative. the China News Services, the Ya
promotions, has sparked a rush attractive to customers,” said regulations and promote “Gold is indestructible and number of Chinese living and er:
on the purchase of the metal in the marketing manager of healthier development of the timeless. That is why it has been working overseas reached 48 gn
the capital. Caibai in Chongwen District bullion market. chosen as the basis of wealth million by the end of 2010, esi
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Caibai, Gongmei and Zhongjin in the coming Spring Festival. international reserve. The mea- In China, people like to buy ior has become extremely oh
Gold reduced the price of pure Sales have also been strong sure will “safeguard economic gold for dowries, he said. important for the US Da
gold by as much as 10 yuan at Gongmei’s agship store on and nancial security and social Zhao’s statements were money-transfer agency’s g
per gram and provide more Wangfujing Street. Almost 20 stability,” Xinhua reported. echoed by billionaire George expansion in China. an
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dragon-themed jewelry designs kilograms of gold bars for The country’s gold con- Soros and Alibaba Chairman Last year, the company H
for shoppers to choose from. investment were sold on the sumption doubled to 20 per- Jack Ma. Being optimistic unveiled the world’s biggest or:
“I am looking for a gold pen- morning of January 1 after the cent of global supply in the past about the country’s retail red envelop at a Chinese dit
dant with a dragon on it,” said a store adjusted its price. decade, while its reserves have demand for gold, Soros and New Year celebration in E
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35-year-old woman surnamed Xinhua reported that gold climbed to 1,054 tons, count- Ma have placed their bets on Fuzhou, Fujian Province,
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Chen, who was born in the year sales jumped more than 30 per- ing 1.8 percent of the foreign the country’s gold market via the hometown of many over-
of the dragon. cent over the three-day vaca- exchange reserves. the IPO of Hong Kong jeweler seas workers. D
Chen went to Caibai, one of tion in Beijing. As of Wednesday, the Bei- Chow Tai Fook. Red envelopes, called O
the country’s largest gold stores, Clamping down jing Gold Exchange Center said Gold is always the ultimate hongbao, still play an T
over the weekend after hearing While consumers like Chen it has not received any detailed hedge against times of tur- important role in modern
news of the discounts. bought gold as a gift, others instructions. “But the talk of the moil, Zhao said. “Time and China in spite of the coun- G
“I had this idea several were rushing to hoard the metal ban has been going on for a again we see that in any crisis, try’s growing prosperity, N
months ago, but the price just for investment. Gold exchanges while,” an ofcial named Wang natural disaster or nancial said Drina Yue, managing
kept rising. Now it is going to be and trading centers have mush- at the exchange said by phone. crisis, gold holds its value, director and senior vice JI
the year of the dragon soon, and roomed in the country, and so Wang said the measure is and sometimes actually rises president of Western Union I
since they dropped the price has illegal trade. surely going to affect their in the short term.” Asia Pacic. E
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January 20 2012
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Japanese artist leads
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Last year was not kind to the Chinese food indus- the country’s food, introducing concepts such
try. Crises included poisoned milk, recycled cooking as organic farming and farmers’ markets. They
t oil, fake eggs and wines, dyed steamed buns, exces- offered training and lobbied for officials to draft
a sive fertilizer use and pollution of drinking water. safety regulations.
But while the above all captured headlines, This is the story of one of those people.
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In September 2010, Emi
Uemura, an artist from Japan,
came to Beijing and set up
her Organic Farmer’s Market,
or Country Fair, downtown.
The market collected and sold
organic products from farms
in the suburbs around Bei-
jing.
Over the past year, she
worked on independent proj-
ects around town and collab-
orated with Vitamin Creative
Space to create Mobile Farm,
which grows plants in wheeled
containers, and Calendar Res-
taurant, which uses food prod-
ucts grown from the farms.
Uemura has worked on
many social projects, using
meals as a vehicle for people
from all walks of life to gather
and discuss.
“I had no idea what to do Photo provide by Michael Eddy
when I came to China,” Uemura
Uemura’s organic market draws thousands of local farmers and foodies interested in organic products.
said. “Fortunately, soon after I
arrived, we found the topic of the organic campaign begin- the World Health Organiza-
organic agro-products.” ning to gather momentum in tion (WHO) in Beijing, said the
Uemura thought her organic the capital. More are coming WHO has advised the health
market would attract artsy to promote the planting and ministry and State Food and
types, but it drew thousands of export of organic products. Drug Administration on topics
local farmers and foodies inter- In 2008, Joseph Jen, former such as food security man-
ested in healthy eating. deputy secretary of the US Agri- agement, inspection and risk
n She and her colleagues culture Department and now evaluation.
Ya realized it was a great one of the ve co-chairmen of The US Federal Drug
ao opportunity to promote the the International Union of Food Administration set up its
Zh so-called “Local Food Move- Science and Technology, joined rst overseas ofce in Beijing
er: ment,” an ongoing movement China’s Ministry of Health to in 2008. The ofce claimed
gn popular in Japan, Europe and hold an international food secu- that “they are focusing on
si the US. rity forum in Beijing for three the food products exported
e Diners at Calender Restaurant discuss the day’s interesting
D With her organic market consecutive years. to the US only.”
n setting an example, more issues over organic food. Photos provided by Danmin Fang Patrick Wall, former chair- Eight UN agencies, includ-
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an of farmland in the suburbs Now they produce vege- to prepare kimchi. Safety Authority, reminded Chinese government bodies to
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Ha own vegetables. Farmer’s Market and Calen- responsibility for the food “when a crisis happens, the ties in the western part of the
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Y Uemura and her colleagues opened Calendar Restaurant think about the kind of life- much more important than work in the cities.
A did not rush to the suburbs. in Wudaokou to remind style we want and pursue. solving the problems.” At the end of last year,
D Instead, they created and pro- people to eat seasonal foods. “Our market, farm and res- Gale Prince, former chair- the Chinese Ministry of Com-
O moted Mobile Farm, providing The two women prepare taurant emerged as the result man of the International Asso- merce declared that more than
organic products to restau- dishes with organic ingredients of this thinking,” she said. “It’s ciation of Food Protection and 99 percent of Chinese food
T rants and setting up the con- and talk to visitors about the not an ideology insisted on by now president of SAGE Food exports are clean and healthy.
G cept of sustenance of space: advantages of eating organic. an artist from Japan.” Safety Consulting, agreed. “It’s only a short-term
they make full use of the spaces “Our restaurant is not for “Qualied professionals achievement,” said Wang Jun,
N and corners in the buildings prot and is not open every A long-term and technical trainings are professor of social sciences at
I they live and grow organic day,” Fang said. In the last commitment the most important factors to Peking University. “The safety
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I food in boxes, squares and month of 2011, they held a The story of Uemura and ensure food safety,” he said. of food requires long-term com-
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January 20 2012
Commemorating 5
20 years with Israel
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and Israel celebrated the 20th
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tries on January 12, vowing to Amos Nadai
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continue strengthening bilat- The momentum will be main-
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“It’s wonderful for us to ister of foreign affairs.
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gather together to celebrate the “I think China is a center
20th anniversary of diplomatic of manufacture and Israel is
relations, even though we’re a center of technology and
doing it through video confer- design,” Nadai said. “We can
ence,” said Ruth Kahanoff, Isra- be complementary in many
el’s deputy director general for aspects like economy, culture
Asia and the Pacic, in the and agriculture.”
opening remarks. Nadai’s tenure as ambas-
“We must remember that sador began in 2007. In the
the relationship between the past four years, he has traveled
Jewish people and Chinese extensively around China to
Officials from China and Israel celebrate the 20th anniversary of diplomatic relations in the
people started long ago,” said strengthen communication.
Israeli embassy. Photos by Wu Tong
Amos Nadai, the Israeli “The Embassy of Israel has
ambassador to China. “We tions in 1992, cooperation ambassador to Israel, said at some ups and downs in the set many international pro-
also need to remember that between the two countries the conference that there is last two decades in our rela- grams in China, for example
China and Israel in modern has covered such elds as also great potential. tions. We also have different the Mashav program (for
times have achieved a lot even economics, science and tech- “For example, we period- views on certain issues. How- international development
before the establishment of nology, agriculture, educa- ically sent a Chinese delega- ever, we have always dealt with cooperation). We have many
formal diplomatic relations. I tion and culture. tion to visit Israel last year, problems using a long-term Chinese graduates from
don’t think there are two other This year, two-way trade and many high-level Israeli perspective, seeking common Mashav program every year,”
countries that have achieved from the two countries is ofcials are expected to visit ground while learning from Nadai said. “I believe their
so much during such a rela- expected to reach $10 billion, China this year,” he said. “The differences.” active participation in social
tively short period of time.” a 20-fold increase from $20 cooperation between us will China and Israel have activities will surely be helpful
Since China and Israel million in 1992. surely be tightened. achieved a great amount of to build up the bilateral rela-
established diplomatic rela- Gao Yanping, the Chinese “We have experienced diplomatic success in the past. tionship in the future.”
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January 20 2012
Roundabout hosts charity
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By Wu Hao
Sunlight streamed through the windows of Beijing Rego British School’s cafe last Saturday as volunteers in red
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aprons shuffled about, sorting books and helping visitors find what they want.
m This was Roundabout’s charity book fair, with all proceeds going to purchase coal for a school for deaf children
in Hebei Province. Books were sold from all genres, from fiction to travel to cooking. There was also a children’s
area for books and toys.
m An annual event in years past, “this year we’ll start to have it every six weeks or so,” said Sally Hind, who’s in
charge of the book fair.
But Roundabout does much more than organize book fairs.
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Roundabout’s charity book fair, with all proceeds going toward the purchase coal for a school for deaf children in Hebei Province. Photos by Wu Hao
Inspired by son believes in transparency. consists of volunteers who don’t lem – perhaps the biggest.
Mama Tina “Normally in our retail store, have much time but do what Roundabout has a retail store,
if we purchase coal for the they can to help sort and price a 1,000-square-meter space it
Many of Roundabout’s vol-
orphanage, a copy of the receipt products. rents for 1,500 yuan per month,
unteers have been involved in
is on the wall, as is the picture Roundabout also gets a lot but it’s located in Shunyi. It’s
volunteering for a long time.
of coal being delivered,” Simp- of support from locals. During hard to nd to nd anything of
Leslie Simpson, the founder of
son said. “We would be crazy to the last book fair, Roundabout comparable size for that price
Roundabout, worked at a char-
steal [funds].” dropped bags at every house in nearer downtown.
ity store when she was in UK.
Roundabout has also sent aid their neighborhood on Friday “Bags of donations come to
In the 1980s, Simpson read
to other countries. It cooperated with a note in English and Chi- us, which can be jewelry, expen-
Bridge Over My Sorrows and
with a Canadian organization nese. When they came to pick sive things. We need people
Mama Tina, which were about
called The Fugong Foster Care up the bags a few days later, with the good heart to not take
an Irish woman from a humble
Project , which has been working they got a lot of Chinese books, these things,” Simpson said. “So
background who moved to Viet-
nam to help homeless children. in Yunnan for many years, and and a lot of Chinese people came that’s what really stops us from
Yan “When I read her story I also some Chinese organizations to the fair for the rst time. expanding too much. We are
o instantly knew that I wished like Butter Lamp Foundation in “There is a big thought in not going downtown until we
Zha to do similar work,” Simpson Choosing among the many Qinghai. All are reputable chari- China that only rich people can nd the right person.”
ner: saapipdl.y “ Mfory ah juosbb ainn dC hsainida hsoe cthouatl dI tfaitilre.s at Roundabout’s book ties“, FSiirmstp wsoen h saavied .to ensure that dthoe cshaamritey ,t”i mSiem, pas oland sya icda. mAet PaRsosuinndga boonut twhaent ts rtou sntd a
sig could do what I want.” According to its website, the organizations we are working to greet her with a basket of new affordable home soon, to
De Simpson arrived in China “Roundabout is currently sup- with are very clean and transpar- home-baked cookies. reestablish its base in Shunyi,
n nine years ago and volunteered porting 30 charities within the ent,” Simpson said. “So we do “Everybody can be involved, then move on to open more
ma at Blue Sky Healing Home for Beijing area and many more in research on the Internet, ask a lot everybody has some talent or stores in the city. After ve years,
an three and a half years. areas throughout the country.” of questions from other organiza- even just time,” said Flora Simpson would like to be able
M “I saw, through doing that, “We rst started by contact- tions, asked those charities about Clyde, Roundabout’s commu- to perfect her model and open
an the need for a donation point. ing a few charities and asking the work they’ve already done. nications director. stores in other areas of China.
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local moms and moms-to-be.
Many of Beijing’s residents will clear out during Spring Festival, including most res-
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taurant owners and shopkeepers.
(English) at Beijing United
But the cupboard won’t be completely bare when it comes to dining and entertain- Family Hospital c
ment. Beijing Today recommends Laoshe Teahouse and an ice lantern festival.
Where: 2 Jiangtai Lu, Chao-

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Open: January 27, 1:30-3 pm
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reworks for the holiday?
this past Monday on a day called “small
Authorities have said that
spring festival” – exactly seven days
there will be 1,500 temporary
before the start of Chinese New Year – e
stands that sell reworks. All re-
and will last until February 23. Under
works have already gone on sale. N
Chinese tradition, the small spring festi-
The cost can be anywhere from
val is a day to worship the Kitchen God.
120 to 1,200 yuan per unit.
Laoshe Teahouse invited folk artists
to perform a dragon dance and held a
How much do housekeepers
ceremony to mark the opening of its
cost? I met a Sichuan woman
temple fair.
who charges 20 yuan per
During the fair, visitors will be
hour. How is that rate?
treated to fantastic shows and deli-
With the dramatically
cious Beijing cuisine. There will be a
increased costs of living here,
lantern show and demonstration of
20 yuan per hour is a great
Old Beijing peddling.
price for a housekeeper. You
Trinkets
can also get a live-in house-
Every night from 6 to 10 pm before
keeper or nanny, but you’ll have
February 6, visitors will nd folk handi-
to negotiate the price.
crafts on the second oor of the teahouse,
such as dough gurines, pinwheels, diab-
I just moved into a
olos, polymer clay puppets, cloisonne craft
shared apartment and
pictures and Liu Bao pressed tea.
I’ve seen three
Today and tomorrow, experts from
cockroaches already.
the Yinglian Society of China, an organi-
What can I do to get rid
zation of poets that specialize in couplets,
of them?
will write New Year’s couplets for visitors
from 4:30 to 9:30 pm. Try the following:
Performing arts 1. Starve them (don’t leave
Many traditional performances are food out where the roaches can
scheduled to be on stage from January get to them).
23 to 28. A special matinee will be added 2. Clean dishes thoroughly.
on January 23, 24 and 28. From January Laoshe Teahouse will stage many traditional shows during the 3. Put roach motels in dark
25-27, a special youth crosstalk challenge holiday season. CFP Photo areas where they are most likely
will feature popular crosstalk artists He to hide.
Yunwei and Li Jing. One part of the eve- Longqing Gorge ice 4. Keep the bathroom as
ning program is a lucky draw. clean as possible. Avoid lth
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rettes and haircuts. divided into four parts: colorful Tower and goddess Guanyin are some good Chinese Yin
New Year’s Eve dinner lantern area, snow sculpture area, also depicted. music? Is there any ei
New Year’s Eve dinner is the most ice display area, and “Longqing Hobbyhorses, land boats, Chinese indie rock? W
important part among spring festival cel- Gorge Cup international ice and dragon lantern and other sym- Try Twist Machine, Yaksa, or:
ebrations. The teahouse will prepare two snow sculpture competition” bols of local folk culture can be AK-47, XTX and Cold Animal dit
kinds of Beijing style New Year’s Eve area. There are more than 350 ice seen through this festival, adding for Metal, The Suffocate,Chun E
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yuan per table. While dinning, customers 300 tree ice lanterns on display. Longqing Gorge: CMCB for rap, The Reector, D
could enjoy great shows and take part in The highlight of this year”s Longqing Gorge (Longqingxia) Hang on the Box and other O
luck draw arranged by the tea house. event is dragon themed art. is about 85 kilometers outside many locals for punk. Zi Yue T
Laoshe Teahouse Exquisitely carved dragon gates downtown Beijing. You can take and The Sand are also popular.
Where: 3 Qianmen Xi Jie, Xuanwu and palaces are everywhere. Bus 919 from Deshengmen (east You can nd the bands easily G
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As the artistic director and chief Yu said.
conductor of China Philharmonic Orchestra, Another is Ye Xiaogang’s The Song of the
he and the orchestra had been practicing day Earth, recomposed after Gustav Mahler’s piece
and night. On January 30, he will lead the of the same title. From 1908 to 1909, Mahler
orchestra in a concert at the Konzerthaus on composed this piece based on seven Tang
Gendarmenmarkt in Berlin to open the Year of Dynasty (618-907) poems. In 1908, Mahler
Chinese Culture in Germany. read The Chinese Flute, the publication of Hans
“Germany is the home of classical music. I feel Bethge’s volume of ancient Chinese poetry ren-
both excited and worried. I’m trying to prepare a dered into German. Mahler was attracted by the
performance so impressive we’ll knock the audi- vision of earthly beauty expressed in the verses
ence dead,” Yu said. and chose seven to set to music.
“We decided to perform works by both In 2005, 98 years after the initial performance
German and Chinese musicians. It is a great of Mahler’s version, Yu and China Philharmonic
opportunity to pay my respect.” Orchestra invited Ye to recreate The Song of the
The concert will open with the overture Earth using the same texts.
from Richard Wagner’s Tannhouser. Follow- “We asked the professors at Peking University
ing will be Butterfly Lovers’ Violin Concerto, to translate Mahler’s texts into Chinese. It took
composed by Chen Gang and He Zhanhao in a long time for them to figure out which poems
1958. The piece is based on a Chinese tragedy appeared in Mahler’s music. Ye created his ver-
about Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, often sion based on the original poems,” Yu said. “Ye
likened to Romeo and Juliet. uses many Chinese percussion instruments in his
The finale will be The Drunken Beauty, a piece. If Mahler’s version is six oil paintings, Ye’s
Peking opera with an orchestra accompaniment. is six wash paintings.”
“People are familiar with Peking opera. We There are more than 1,500 artists and
have revised it into an orchestral version. I scholars attending the events at the Year of
hope people will see music as a way to com- Chinese Culture in Germany. In addition to
municate with the past and with different cul- musical events, the public forums give more
tures,” Yu said. open and direct communication between Chi-
Born in Shanghai in 1964 to a family of musi- nese and Germans.
cians, Yu received his early music education from One project, “China! China? China...,” will be
his grandfather Ding Shande, a composer and held as a cultural event in the town squares of
China’s first pianist to hold a piano recital and six German cities. It will bring together Chinese
record albums. artists and scholars to talk about poetry, music,
His formal music education began at the dance, movie, fashion and philosophy in a pavil-
Shanghai Conservatory of Music and concluded ion made of bamboo.
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January 20 2012
Adventurer of
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Timezone 8
book listing
wanderlust at sea
Timezone 8 is a Hong Kong-
k
based publisher, distributor and
retailer of books on contempo-
o
rary art, architecture, photog-
o raphy and design. This week,
it recommends three upcoming
By Charles Zhu
B titles to Beijing Today readers.
John Moynihan, son of New
York’s senator Daniel Patrick Moyni-
han, went to work on the Merchant
Marine during the summer of his
junior year at Wesleyan University.
The story of his days spent aboard
a super oil tanker were recorded in
an illustrated manuscript before he
died at the age of 44 from a fatal
reaction to acetaminophen.
When his mother discovered the
journal, she had a limited run Zeng Hao: Summer
printed for Moynihan’s friends and By Zeng Hao, 149pp, Beijing
family. Now, a mass publication of Center for the Arts, $30
his thrilling tale is being made avail- Zeng Hao’s large-format oil
able by Spiegel & Grau as The paintings depict young Chinese
Voyage of the Rose City. men and women facing the
Moynihan decided to drop out of viewer with blank expressions
Wesleyan before he was 20 years against monochrome backdrops
old. His father, who as a young man punctuated by oddly isolated
had been in the Navy and worked trees, occasionally doing away
on the New York City docks, wor- with the gures altogether.
ried about his son’s intentions
and opposed. However, his mother,
Elizabeth Moynihan, was an ardent
sailor who “immediately set about
helping him.”
The boy was bored with Wes-
leyan’s scholastic life, which he
referred to in his journal as “an
overgrown playground” where “con-
versation focused on feminism and
boycotting Nestle.”
He also wanted to confront what Zhang Yuan: Unspoiled
he called “the sense of failure that has Brats
Voyage of the Rose City: An Adventure at Sea
haunted me since I left school.” By Zhang Yuan, 193pp,
By John Moynihan, 256pp, Spiegel & Grau, $22
His rst assignment was “forty- Ullens Center for Contempo-
ve days from Camden, New Jersey, rary Art, $19
to the Mediterranean on the Rose the 1980s with John Moynihan, who Gradually, hostility was The lms and photographs of
City,” a supertanker measuring 894 lived nearby.” replaced by the thrills of the sea. acclaimed director Zhang Yuan
feet long, 105 feet wide and 64 feet “Over a few pints, John spun Like most crew members, he took a portray individuals on the out-
deep. However, as the ship sailed on out his theories about Walt Disney’s turn at the helm. “I allowed myself skirts of Chinese society. This
the sea, forty-ve days became four inuence on American culture and a wry smile,” he writes. “What artist’s book presents a range of
months across the equator, around the aws in American higher educa- would the executives of Texaco do his color portraits of disenfran-
Africa, across the Indian Ocean, and tion amid a smorgasbord of topics. if they knew a 20-year-old beer- chised youth, lesbians, victims of
up to Japan. An engaging young man of many drinking ex-hippie who had been abuse and monks, all of whom
It was a far more dangerous talents and many interests, he had out to sea for only two and a half are interviewed about their lives.
n voyage than Moynihan, who avidly inherited his parents’ sense of days was controlling the destiny of
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er: dilapidated equipment aboard the tional Union asked him to say his and funny scenes in ports like Yoko-
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esi They passed through the Straits which Senator Daniel Patrick Moyni- paid, went on a drinking spree and
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Y the old seamen and came to value the when the dreamy and long-haired from his Wesleyan writing teacher (PSFO) art collective was
A drunken friendship among the men. Moynihan barely suppressed “fear of Paul Horgan, a great chronicler of the founded in 2005 by Hong Hao,
D As a gifted writer, John drew what being thrown overboard or getting American West. After reading Rose Xiao Yu, Song Dong, Liu Jian-
O he saw and kept a journal on the ship punched out.” He was, he writes, City, Horgan said, “Keep sailing – hua and Leng Lin. PSFO initiates
that he turned into his senior thesis “dangerously alienated.” He could you’re on your way.” group discussions in locations
T when he returned to Wesleyan the fol- not distinguish between a hatchet Though not a great work, the such as factories, farms, schools,
G lowing year. and a crescent wrench. Nor could he book written by a boy barely 20 artist’s studios, bathhouses and
A friend of John’s recalled, “The make out which end of the ship was years old is a stirringly authentic department stores. Their activi-
N Eire Pub in Boston’s Dorchester the bow. “From the hat I was wear- saga that records the fears and glo- ties are documented in this sub-
I neighborhood is not really a sailors’ ing to my complete ignorance of the ries of the sea and funny scenes at stantial overview.
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E place. I met there several times in pathetic joke.” young fans of adventures.
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