Filming and editing are two separate things.
FWIW I have had a few short (~3-5 minute) videos (already filmed) professionally edited recently for very reasonable rates... executed within a day, and under 800/minute. Very happy with output quality and service.
I can give you the editor I used's contact details if you wish, send me a PM.
Shenzhen is awesome! So much going on. Everyone is from somewhere else so you don't get that 'lao difang ren' mentality with swearing, arguing on the street, spitting, day-long-mahjong, etc. It's a very young city. The sort of place you can literally make anything happen. A true city of opportunity.
No coverage so I thought to share. Yesterday morning on Hongshan Nan Lu near the intersection of Hongshan Dong Lu a man with a mental illness took an axe to the general public. Multiple people were seriously injured. Police turned up but were unable to constrain the attacker, and ultimately shot him.
Apparently the attacker was a Chinese man in his mid 30s.
I read an article recently, recalled some TM threads here and looked them up.
It seems sad that as an international organization supposedly fostering effective and professional communication they are unable to provide a current, geographically delineated list of clubs and events.
Hi Ronald,
You should get in touch with Jim Goodman, he has pictures of a lot of these that he took himself from the 1990s through early 2000s.
As far as older ones go, he has published a number of books on the province some of which almost certainly include older images which he could provide. (Likely including the one near Baoshan.)
I also have a collection of old Yunnan photographs and other imagery and could provide you with a French era (~1900) black and white of one in southeast Yunnan.
Jim's website which has his email: blackeagleflights.blogspot.hk/
Or just email me and I'll put you in touch with him. My email: walter at the domain name of the website pratyeka.org/
I have a few images of covered bridges from ~2001 onward, but also photographs of some old photos. Unfortunately they would take me a long time to dig up and I don't have time right now. I would suggest contacting the various prefectural museums for additional assistance (eg. Dali, Baoshan, Kunming, Jianshui, Mengzi/Honghe). There is also a private museum in Tengchong which would likely be of use.
A copy of the finished book would be appreciated.
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@nailer is being unfairly dismissed: they are certainly fallible. At one point they were well managed and the only game in town, and their outdoor bar had an interesting social vibe. Recently, none of these is the case (was given a bad bill to the tune of ~300% - no managers present and a subsequent complaint resulted in a less than ideal outcome, many more places are now open, and the outdoor bar is closed). Unless you are specifically seeking faux-Americana (often far better examples elsewhere) or two degrees removed faux-Mexicana, there's little reason to go there. How come French Cafe can serve a great sandwich for 24元 but Sals requires 50元 for a pretend-exoticized nibble? Certainly the business will continue, but the hey-dey is clearly gone. Romaniticizing the past aint gonna help. E-waste recycling by shipping (non carbon neutral) junk across the country? Puh-lease. Garbage processing people here recycle anyway! I applaud the ethical stance of one of the managers, but the place has frankly lost its mojo.
Hands down the best draft craft beer in Kunming. On top of that, very reasonable prices for food and other drinks (especially wine).
Called the number provided on a Friday at 2:15PM while a 10% discount was advertised "on Friday and Saturday" (listed in GoKunming specials).
A Chinese person answered the 'English' phone number in Mandarin then explained in broken English that you need to order 3 hours in advance. (Subtext: As their business is so slow)
Grumble. False advertising. Waste of time. Seems 100% Chinese run. Probably bad pizza.
The listing here is wrong! Teresa's are not defunct, they are just back to being one store instead of two stores on Wenlinjie now! They are still in business, still answer on this phone number, and are still delivering! Points for consistency, it's been years! As of right now, it's 68元 for the more toppings vegetarian at the largest size. They will do thin or thick crust. Yes, it's not to everyone's taste, but I always used to find adding dried chilli powder and some extra salt brought it up to tasty. Might go for a dash of Sichuan pepper oil to spice it up this time around. (You know you've been in China too long when...)
I also had a bad experience here recently.
Honestly, I wish them the best of luck, but I do think the staff are poorly managed and the owners have the wrong attitude and a clear lack of experience in service-oriented business. While the pizza is OK, everything else I have tried (including overnight stay) can be had cheaper and better elsewhere, and the pizza at Roccos is better in my opinion. The service has always fluctuated between acceptable to don't care.
Since they don't have their situation resolved yet, and it has been a few years, I have made the decision not to go there anymore or send anyone else. It's just not worth the hassle, given the crappy location (masked as private or lost). Better pizza with more quiet and privacy on Roccos' terraces.
Interview: Kunming Craft Beer Society founder Darryl Snow
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Getting Away: Dali's Jizu Mountain
发布者I have a map of the place from the republican period which is interesting to compare to the current situation. Basically, today nothing there is ancient at all except for the tower at the top, whose majesty is destroyed by cookie-cutter temple crap that has been dotted about. The original temples up the mountain have been turned in to government-run Mahayana Pure Land temples with fake monks, instead of real working temples with a Vajrayana bent.
You can stay at the top. Originally you could stay part way up, but the government has stomped on that with the installation of the cable-car.
You can do the whole thing in a day trip from Dali. Get up early and bus to Xiaguan. From Xiaguan bus to Jizushan. Walk up the mountain, cable-car back down, bus back toward Xiaguan (may need to change buses once), then bus back to old town Dali.
It's a very underrated day out, but a bit sad to look at how important it was historically, how natural the place must have been, and what it has been turned in to.
Many Tibetans still visit, it is good to see.
Chasing the Tea Horse Road in Pu'er
发布者Nice article Michael, thanks for sharing your experience. I share your sadness at seeing all of the old buildings being destroyed.
I can resolve the question of the toponym. Today's Ning'er is the actual, real and original Pu'er, which lends its name to the tea. Today's Pu'er is the actual, real and original Simao, which I am led to believe has significantly less of a historical connection to the tea, except perhaps as a trans-shipment point and/or local political center.
Somewhere in the mid noughties the prefectural government renamed Simao to Pu'er, in what I have been told as hearsay from many quarters was basically a bid to attract greater recognition and business to the prefectural capital (Simao) in the then-thriving and highly speculative Pu'er tea trade.
It is my distinct impression from 15 years here including 2.5 living in Xishuangbanna that there were multiple trade routes in pre-modern times. I recall reading that Yiwu, which I have also visited multiple times (sadly, last time they had imprisoned a forest monkey in an undersized cage in the middle of the village), actually traded north via Jianshui and/or Shiping. Whether that is true or not, and what the evidence may be, I am not sure, but it definitely the impression I've gained from reading. There are probably lots of Ming and Qing era texts describing the area.
Definitely by the Ming Dynasty there were trade routes as far south as Ayutthaya and as far west as India (via Baoshan and Tengchong) from Kunming, these are recorded by Zheng He's voyage and Marco Polo, for instance.
If you are interested in doing some more research, you may be able to garner some specific local trade route evidence by searching Geoff Wade's 'Southeast Asia in the Mingshi Lu' resource at www.epress.nus.edu.sg/msl/ ... though many place names have changed, and all I could see was that mining is mentioned as an industry in the area in the 30 Mar 1589 entry at www.epress.nus.edu.sg/msl/entry/2672?hl=%22Pu-er+Tong+Hai%22
Dianchi Lake showing encouraging signs of life
发布者Dunno about other readers, but I still can't get over the thought process and ethnical bankruptcy of "spend billions redirecting the headwaters of one of the most significant rivers in Asia [because capital of some province screwed up their lake]". This will permanently seriously deride the environment between the source point and, I suppose, Sichuan, where it seems the next major tributaries lie.
Yunnan fossil brings human evolutionary timeline into question
发布者PS. French sources discuss overland routes to Kunming and beyond coming up the Red River valley then via Mengzi. Probably there is documentary evidence from the Qing Dynasty as to the volume of trade that went on. As far as its importance in the Ming Dynasty, you can read translated references to Mengzi in Geoff Wade's 'Southeast Asia in the Mingshilu' at www.epress.nus.edu.sg/msl/place/1157 ... still earlier, in the Tang Dynasty, the book known as the Man Shu that I am translating over at en.wikisource.org/wiki/Translation:Manshu may reference Mengzi under another place name (chapter one) but I am having trouble identifying some of the early toponyms. In any event, Mengzi is a natural plain featuring plentiful fresh water and was located at the southern end of the plateau stretching south from about Shilin, running parallel to the Nanpan River, to the east of central Kunming's lake plateaux. In prehistoric conjectural terms, it would have been a geographically likely location for settlement from an early period for this reason alone.