The October 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 Noelle Mateer introduces the magazine:
October is a weird time in Beijing. Maybe you won’t be here for most of it. Maybe you’re one of the bajillion people who’s booked flights to somewhere sexy and exciting, like Bali or Koh Samui or Tokyo. Maybe you and your lover are renting motorcycles and driving the length of Vietnam. Wherever it is you’re going, know that I hate you.
Sorry, is it bad form to start an Editor’s Note by admonishing our readers? I take it back. It’s just that I wish you all were here over Golden Week. The national holiday is one of the best weeks of the year in Beijing – and I’ll miss you, damn it.
If you’re still in town and off work, it’s a magical week of good weather and long naps. The China Open is happening (see p. 69). Bars offer hefty discounts to get the few of us homebodies who aren’t traveling outside. And I have yet to discover a restaurant that stops it regular brunch service over the holiday, so cheers to that.
But if Halloween is your preferred October holiday, then boy, oh boy, do we have the cover story for you. Read China’s most gruesome horror stories, in illustrated graphic-novel form, starting p. 40 (you’ve been warned: it’s not the most family-friendly read). Elsewhere in the magazine, Dominique Wong attends an English-language debate competition for Chinese high schoolers (p. 10); Erica Martin shares her pick of the month’s album releases (p. 35); and Yuka Hayashi goes gonzo… by waiting in a two-hour line for milk tea (p. 54).
Happy Golden Week, Mid-Autumn Festival, Halloween and whatever else you’re celebrating,
Noelle Mateer
Editor-in-Chief
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