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I first visited Tai O in Hong Kong at around the age of 4 or 5. To this day, I still remember the pungent aroma of silver shrimps being dried to make shrimp paste, and the sunburned skin on the elderly local fishermen’s faces, and how sick I got from the boat rides to and from the fishing village (the fishy smell of Tai O’s infamous sauce made matters worse).
But as the many parts of China take their giant leap forward towards urbanization, tides are shifting against boat people living along the coasts of Guangdong, Fujian and Hong Kong. In our cover story this issue, Daniel Pflaker and Tristin Zhang from our Guangzhou team capture the uncertainty of their future on p42.
Speaking of the future, I recently attended the inaugural symposium of Museum 2050, a new art initiative dedicated to investigating the key issues surrounding China’s cultural institutions and art districts by midcentury. Founders Nicole Ching and Leigh Tanner talk more about their project and share their thoughts with me in this month’s City feature (p10).
In the Arts section, Erica Martin visits the Museum of Broken Relationships (p38) exhibition at Columbia Circle and shares some of the stories and artifacts from every type of breakups out there in the world.
For Food, Cristina Ng has enlisted a team of expert judges for our inaugural Ice Cream Cup. Find out which Shanghai-based purveyor snatches the prestigious title on p54. Last but not least, you’ll find my interview with Welsh adventurer Ash Dykes (p15) as he departs on his yearlong trek through the Yangtze River this month in the Life & Style section, as well as a roundup of the most interesting hotel openings of the year so far (p22).
Until next month,
Dominic Ngai
Editor-in-Chief
Download the July 2018 issue of That's Shanghai here, or view it in your browser with Issuu here (VPN required). To download previous issues, click here.
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