The May issue of That's PRD is out now, in both paper-and-ink form citywide and digital PDF form on our website. Here, Editor-in-Chief Matthew Bossons introduces the magazine:
For this month’s cover story, we’ve taken it upon ourselves to introduce you to the neighbors you didn’t know you had: the shuishangren, or ‘people on the water’ in English.
More commonly – and controversially – known as Tanka people, populations of shuishangren are found in various parts of the Pearl River Delta (Hong Kong, Dongguan and Foshan, to name a few), and on pages 34-43, we offer an insight into the lives of these river- and sea-faring folks while also exploring the modern-day challenges facing their centuries-old communities.
In our City section, on pages 10-13, we look at the important work being done by PFLAG China, named for – but unaffiliated with – America’s Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays. We’ve also included a two-page photo essay from our colleagues in Beijing profiling China’s ‘Weird Architecture’ era (pages 14-15).
Elsewhere in our May issue, we give you a breakdown of the best PRD-based events from this year’s Festival Croisements (page 32), pay a post-quake visit to Hualien in Taiwan (page 22) and meet the folks working to save Shenzhen’s coral reefs (page 45).
Catch you all in June,
Matthew Bossons
Editor-in-Chief
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