As a professional photographer who lives part time in Kunming and part time in San Francisco, I definitely advise you to make your technology related purchases outside China. This includes cell phones, computers, printers, audio and video equipment and cameras. In China you may find relatively current models but not the full range of models. In almost all cases the prices are higher. If you are in the U.S., bhphotovideo.com is the leading national stock house with very competitive prices. In Hong Kong I found very good prices, excellent selection at wing shing photo in Kowloon (wingshingphoto.com). Supplies like rechargeable batteries, chargers, proprietary cables, lens hoods and filters are all much cheaper outside of China. The only exception to this general rule was photo studio lighting equipment. I was able to outfit a complete studio with four high power strobes, soft boxes, stands, etc. for the price of one strobe back home. Good luck and enjoy Kunming!
Danmairen has it absolutely right. It's amazing that a few westerners try to spread the poison of religious nonsense that grips the feeble minded, poorly educated people of the US to the Chinese. While the people of China have a long way to go in sorting out problems of overpopulation, pollution, food production, health care and education, the last thing they need is some self righteous, gobbledy-gook from missionary do-gooder types who are misfits in their own country.
timkunming is right on the money. Dr. Wu and the staff at Kunming Animal Hospital are compassionate and knowledgeable. KAH also happens to be the place to get official vaccinations for your pets. They have domestic and imported vaccines (the imported ones are from Novartis of Switzerland). Dr. Wu's great care save our little puppy from certain death due to sever kennel cough. That was nearly 3 years ago. Now little "Mixian" is a happy, healthy family pet living with my in laws in Nanning!
Bonnych is not a laundromat. It's a dry cleaning service. What's funny about all their English signage is that it's a complete fabrication. There is no such company in the U.S. They opened up a location in "Think UK" on Jiao Ling Lu a few years ago. The cleaning services look OK, but I usually stay away from companies that result to lies in their marketing materials.
Although items sent using International Priority Mail (USPS's offering) usually make it, but not always. A delivery slip may be left for you but not always. The only office where packages from the US are delivered is on Beijing Lu between the DonfFengDong Lu and the train stations. The one plus about that office is that several people speak English and they take pride in serving foreign customers. UPS is a much better choice. If American sender provides an email address for the recipient UPS will contact you with customs clearance information and will arrange delivery to your door. It's a lot less hassle than USPS.
Liumingke1234, why is it so sad that people want to live their own lives. Children do not ask to be born. It is a great conceit of parents to expect to be raised by their own parents and then to be taken care of by their children. Each generation is responsible for the future, not for the past.
If you are elderly and can't take care of yourself or haven't made arrangements to be taken care of, the only fault is your own (barring any unforeseen circumstances). We all know that we are to going to age and at some point become feeble. Why is it our children's responsibility to take care of us?
I ask this as a childless, 56 year old, who is an only child.
@laotou, thanks for your comment. I think that there are two completely different worlds at work here. The official CPC line about harmony is a thinly veiled ideal of group think and uniformity rather than the kind of community spirit and cooperation we normally think of. The other world is the continuous improvement in the well being of a large number, albeit a minority, of Chinese people who have formed a large middle class open to a world of ideas and information beyond Chinese borders. As their children are exposed to the benefits of communal responsibility, as they experience more and more acts of selfless kindness by those around them, social responsibility and true harmony may yet come I the next generation. Let's hope so....now what to do about the other 900 million Chinese!
You've lived in China long enough to realize that there is virtually no sense of communal responsibility. It's every man for himself. Think about the traffic, getting on a bus or trying to buy a train ticket. Because traiditionally one could not rely on anyone outside of immediate family, everyone else is suspect. Hence, no one is willing to get involved.
Thanks for the great interview. I'm delighted to hear about the, obviously, active classical music scene in Kunming. When I lived there, I'm ashamed to admit that I had no luck in finding concerts like those discussed in the interview. I always wondered what the students who bought all those instruments from the musical instruments stores lining one long street near downtown were doing with them. Now I know.
Caring for Yunnan's elderly in the one-child era
发布者Liumingke1234, why is it so sad that people want to live their own lives. Children do not ask to be born. It is a great conceit of parents to expect to be raised by their own parents and then to be taken care of by their children. Each generation is responsible for the future, not for the past.
If you are elderly and can't take care of yourself or haven't made arrangements to be taken care of, the only fault is your own (barring any unforeseen circumstances). We all know that we are to going to age and at some point become feeble. Why is it our children's responsibility to take care of us?
I ask this as a childless, 56 year old, who is an only child.
Yunnan serial killer gets death penalty
发布者@laotou, thanks for your comment. I think that there are two completely different worlds at work here. The official CPC line about harmony is a thinly veiled ideal of group think and uniformity rather than the kind of community spirit and cooperation we normally think of. The other world is the continuous improvement in the well being of a large number, albeit a minority, of Chinese people who have formed a large middle class open to a world of ideas and information beyond Chinese borders. As their children are exposed to the benefits of communal responsibility, as they experience more and more acts of selfless kindness by those around them, social responsibility and true harmony may yet come I the next generation. Let's hope so....now what to do about the other 900 million Chinese!
Yunnan serial killer gets death penalty
发布者You've lived in China long enough to realize that there is virtually no sense of communal responsibility. It's every man for himself. Think about the traffic, getting on a bus or trying to buy a train ticket. Because traiditionally one could not rely on anyone outside of immediate family, everyone else is suspect. Hence, no one is willing to get involved.
Interview: Howard Dyck
发布者Thanks for the great interview. I'm delighted to hear about the, obviously, active classical music scene in Kunming. When I lived there, I'm ashamed to admit that I had no luck in finding concerts like those discussed in the interview. I always wondered what the students who bought all those instruments from the musical instruments stores lining one long street near downtown were doing with them. Now I know.
Kunming police launch website for foreigners
发布者As usual, it's nothing but a show. The "laws" may be written, but until there is rule of law, it's all a bad joke. They are deluding themselves.