The October issue of Time Out Beijing has created an intriguing list of the city’s 40 modern heroes. As the Time Out publishing franchise celebrates its fortieth anniversary, its city magazines worldwide have been listing their own Top 40 ‘Heroes’ – people who have “broken new ground in their fields” and have “worked incredibly hard to somehow make [their] city a richer better and more vibrant place.”
Time Out Beijing is China’s only English-language version of the city
listings and information magazine, although it publishes a
Chinese-language magazine in Shanghai and is rumoured to be launching
an English version in that city soon.
Its 40 modern Beijing heroes include: filmmaker Chen Kaige, who will
next month release his latest blockbuster – a biopic of cross-dressing
Peking Opera star Mei Lanfang; movie queen Zhang Ziyi, who is now holed
up in Hollywood improving her English; outspoken artist, architect and
entrepreneur Ai Weiwei; German architect Ole Scheeren, who designed the
astonishing CCTV Tower for Rem Koolhaas’ Office of Metropolitan
Architecture; Brian Wallis, founder of the seminal Red Gate Gallery;
Jiang Rong, author of Man Asia Booker Prize winner Wolf Totem; and Li
Yinhe, a sociologist and sexologist who has promoted homosexual rights
in China.
Time Out Beijing’s October issue is available free of charge in cafés and bookstores across the capital.
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