The June issue of That's Beijing is out now – paper-and-ink-form citywide, digital pdf form right here or in your browser here. Editor-in-Chief Oscar Holland introduces the magazine:
My editor’s notes usually offer some personal musings on the magazine’s cover story. But that leaves me in dangerous territory this month, given our feature package is about Beijing’s ethnic minority communities.
Yes, my ethnicity is technically a minority one here, but nobody wants to hear a white dude reflecting on what it’s like being a white dude in China. If you do, keep an eye out for my forthcoming expat memoir. (I’m joking – and can everyone please stop writing expat memoirs?) Instead, I simply implore you to read this issue and meet members of Beijing’s three most populous minority communities: Manchu, Hui and Mongol.
In the meantime, I want to talk about sausages. Last month, the team and I headed to Arrow Factory’s new(ish) Liangmahe taproom to take part in a sausage-eating competition. I came second, thanks for asking.
But I bring this up for two reasons. First, it provides an excuse to print the picture above. And second, it allows me to segue into some shameless self promotion for our upcoming event at Arrow Factory. The Summer Sundowner will take place on the taproom’s rooftop on June 18, providing readers and assorted freeloaders with music, prizes and RMB30 craft beers. I’ll be there – IPA in hand – reflecting on what it’s like to be a white dude in China.
Elsewhere in the magazine:
Dominique Wong meets the Guangzhou-based photographer taking pictures of very sad-looking zoo animals (page 10)
I ask founder of Beijing’s favorite T-shirt brand, Plastered 8, to pick out his favorite tees on his company’s 10th birthday (page 20)
Andrew Chin talks synthesizers with husband-and-wife duo Alpine Decline (page 28)
And Noelle Mateer reviews a new book on China’s youth (page 33) before bringing you her characteristically discerning round-up of the month’s new food and drink openings (from page 48)
Happy Reading.
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