The September issue of That's PRD is out now, in both paper-and-ink form citywide and digital PDF form on our website. Here, Chief Editor Jocelyn Richards introduces the magazine:
This month’s cover story was supposed to be about smoking. As China braces for the impact of a looming tobacco epidemic, we set out to see whether cigarettes might ever truly be put out in a country that still regards Double Happiness smokes as wedding favors. But the more we dug into the topic of tobacco, the more we discovered it wasn’t the only story worth telling. Vaping, and the steady rise of e-smoking in China, became our focus – an up-and-coming industry that stands to offer smokers a safer alternative to cigarettes, and maybe even change the long-term trajectory of tobacco use on the mainland.
So we chatted with all kinds of people: a Las Vegas-based e-juice manufacturer who exports to China, the owner of Tianjin’s first vape lounge and a handful of other industry insiders right here in the PRD.
While we learned that production is still going strong here (Shenzhen manufactures about 90 percent of all vape hardware sold worldwide), the vapers we talked to also alluded to the fact that the industry is about to encounter some serious hurdles. What’s next for vaping in China, and will the trend be extinguished just as quickly as it ignited? Turn to p36 to find out.
In City, Shanghai chief editor Dominic Ngai talks to a French photographer capturing Hong Kong’s uniquely vertical character in his series ‘Vertical Horizon.’ For those of us who tend to get lost in our phones when trying to find the best noodle shop in Wanchai (guilty!), this collection offers a glimpse of the beautiful sights we might be missing overhead (p12).
Elsewhere in the magazine, we travel to Qingyuan’s psychedelic caves (p19), introduce a gadget that lets you play hundreds of retro video games (Mario Kart, anyone? p18) and ask the chief curator of Art Canton what we can look forward to at this year’s show (p29).
I hope you enjoy our September issue – catch you back here next month!
Cheers,
Jocelyn Richards
Editor-in-Chief
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