Comments on: Now that’s a launch party

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 13:27:48 +0000

@AJ: Welcome to Suzhou. You can find the mags pretty much anywhere expats congregate. The Western restaurants in SIP are where I usually get my copies.

By: aj

aj — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 09:57:16 +0000

Hey, glad to hear there are some decent publications in Suzhou. I just moved here, where can I grab a copy?

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:38:11 +0000

I’ve no loyalty to either magazine, but I will hazard a guess that More didn’t go out and burn shoe leather getting those addresses in the first place.

As a writer and former journalist I am reasonably sensitive to plagiarism, but don’t know if I’d call copying public addresses such.

By: Steve Manning

Steve Manning — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 07:13:37 +0000

That may well have been some party but a very poor start for such a supposedly heavy weight magazine. I don’t know if anybody else noticed this but all of the listings in the back were ripped directly off the More Magazine website. The proof is that the only description for any of those listings was Harry’s Bar, and it was word for word the same as what has been in More since I came to Suzhou. Looks like they copy and pasted and forgot to do all the deleting.
I prefer More. It’s always has good local information and they aren’t lazy plagiarists.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:00:18 +0000

@Jason: Incidentally, why is it that once national capital and still provincial capital Nanjing always seems to take backbench to Suzhou?

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:59:17 +0000

@Jason: We’ve got Map now too – and the tabloid format isn’t bad, but upon quick review there’s not a thing in it related to Suzhou – it appears that they’ve just slapped a “Suzhou Edition” on the masthead and sold (more likely gave away) loads of advertising to local Suzhou businesses.

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:24:41 +0000

All we have here in Nanjing is ‘Map’.
Map…is interesting. On the one hand, it’s big, full of great pictures, and it’s bilingual. I like all of that. On the other hand, many of the articles really just aren’t that interesting. It could just be Nanjing…maybe we’re just not that interesting.
It is, however, better than nothing. Here’s to a good Suzhou version.

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By: Chinkerfly

Chinkerfly — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 05:42:50 +0000

Heh, well it’s only been a couple weeks and it wasn’t exactly a conscious decision on my part. I basically got deported for not understanding my visa.

By: Nick

Nick — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 16:26:38 +0000

Picked up a copy, looks great. Was happy they even had my little office in the directory without having submitted it. I have to say, disappointingly MORE hasn’t grown or improved much since its conception, OPEN has had ups and downs but is ultimately crap and full of chinglish. Map Magazine has already made the jump from Nanjing (launch party last month) and is a nice, free, bilingual rag which is pretty appealing to me though i havent seen much of it around.

I look forward to the unbiased and to the point restaurant reviews in the back like the Shanghai edition of That’s.