Hualin Jade Plaza
➔ Between Shangxiajiu Lu and Hualin Temple, Liwan District
Walking through the winding colonial streets of the Jade Market, one can’t help but wonder how the shops, which all sell pretty much sell the same things, stay in business. The Jade Market is the oldest market in...
They say the Pearl River Delta is the brightest spot on Earth. As you’d expect, we’re not sure who “they” are, and it may be a slight exaggeration, but there’s a grain of truth to it. Ask anyone who does business in China. Ask any one of the developers working on the...
HK Magazine: How did you start paddling?
Andrew Au: A friend of mine introduced me to paddling five years ago. I was doing regular gym work and was getting bored, and paddling was a refreshing and fun way to exercise – it’s outdoor, on the water and a team sport.
HK: What is your...
What’s my job? I would say I’m a cultural activist.
I was born in 1969 in a small town in the west of Guangdong. I had a very poor family. I had to study very hard to find a chance to change my life.
I studied hard and got to Zhanjiang, a seaport city in western Guangdong. It was there...
Favorite Guangzhou noise:
At dawn - the sound of birds singing outside.
In your pocket:
A pen, a gift from my father. I like writing by hand, even though everyone’s using computers more and more. For the last two years, I’ve also been addicted to calligraphy.
On the GZ music scene:...
HK Magazine: So who is this little munchkin?
Lisa Peters: This is Xia. She’s about one year old, and she came from Guangxi Province. Her Chinese given name was Xiang, we just shortened it to Xia and gave her a Chinese middle name, Zhu Li, which means pearl of beauty. Her grandmother’s...
LEO (Jul 23-Aug 22): Travel writer Bruce Chatwin walked around Australia as he researched and meditated on the indigenous people’s beliefs about what the land was like in the ancient past. He wrote: “Aboriginal creation myths tell of the legendary totemic beings who wandered over the...
Hot Tables
We’ve heard good things about the new Shifu Court in the Holiday Inn Shifu Guangzhou. So we stopped by and had some kick-ass Cantonese in a venue with eight private dining rooms and great daily specials featuring the freshest catch of the day for both lunch and dinner. For an early...
Chris Patten’s just left town after promoting his newest paperback, “Not Quite the Diplomat.” What other books from our public personalities should we be taking to the beach?
How Regina Got Her Groove Back by Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee
When she causes a disaster in her hometown, a...
When Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Kieslowski died in 1996, it’s fair to say that anyone in the know was a little bit bummed. Kieslowski, after all, was the visionary who brought us the seminal “Three Colours” trilogy, and he was on the verge of starting another: the “Heaven,...
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