The Book Club will meet Tuesday, January 9, 2018, at The Park, to discuss Mikhail Bulgakov's novel, THE MASTER AND MARGARITA, in which Satan arrives in both Roman Jerusalem 2000 years ago and in Moscow in the stalinist 1930's and turns out to be the most interesting and dramatic dude in town (think Milton's PARADISE LOST).
The Kunming Book Club has a wechat group in which many regular attendees participate, but meetings are open to all. Readings, locations and times of meets are chosen by attendees. New participants welcome.
That's creeping up on Chinese New Year, so you might want to check early on tickets to Jinghong. From Jinghong on you can probably just buy tickets the day before at the bus station.
Yahoo is not a brilliant site for news, but it works consistently for me here - perhaps there was a glitch for a week or so once, but that was a long time ago, can't quite remember.
I am a foreigner and at my local PSB I have never needed my landlord to go with me to register, I just needed lease and photocopy of his ID the first time, when I moved in. Later trips in and out of the country, I just had to show up with my passport - did this last week.
What I'm saying is, that in the current situation the political significance of the name is more important than whatever the British decided to call it. And accepted English politic-geographic names do change (e.g., Bombay is now Mumbai in English, Persia became Iran (the name that Iranis themselves use)). It's all okay with me, but you are right to consider the political significance of names.
The name by which the country should be called should be left to the people of the country. The opposition to the name Myanmar within Burma and outside of it has come mostly from politicized people who oppose the governments of the past few decades, who renamed it Myanmar. I'm not sure how much this is an issue for those people today, but I'll be happy with whatever the people decide.
Foreign names for countries, including English names them, often have odd origins and this is rarely a real issue for anyone concerned, but in the Myanmar/Burma situation they have taken on political significance. I usually call the place Burma, because I really think that, in the last 52 years at least, the government has been little short of horrible. If you say that 'Burma' is the preferred term for the country among its inhabitants today you may well be right, but I really don't know.
@HFCampo: Your description of smoking/nicotine addiction is ok but most smokers do not continually need to smoke more & more - I don't smoke any more now than I did decades ago.
Also, I don't understand why this is stealing from one's family.
I agree with you that nicotine addiction is a problem, and that this legal drug (nicotine) does more damage than some (not all) of the illegal drugs that you are so against.
Seems to me that, if, as you say, we cannot define which drugs should be illegal and which illegal, as the governments that you don't respect have all the power in this regard, it would also be the case that we have no power to oppose drugs like nicotine that are legal.
So - there are problems with drugs, both legal and illegal. What to do?
Introduction to the article: the CEF troops were not PRC government military forces operating outside the PRC's borders because the PRC did not then exist. Neither was the CEF a Communist Party unit, though there may have been a few individual communist troops within it.
On translation 'Burmese': the clearest way to distinguish ethnicity in the country once called Burma is to use the word 'Burmese' to refer to all citizens of Burma; the majority ethnic group in Burma are best called Burmans. Other ethnic groups are Karen, Kachin, Shan, etc.
Not quite what you'd call a jumping place, but not bad at all for rather standard US-type meals, not overly expensive, and with a really good salad bar that's cheap, or free with most dinner dishes after 5:30PM. You can get a bottle of beer or even wine if you really want to, but I've never seen anybody do it - maybe that's just to take out. Chinese Christian run, and they hire people with physical disadvantages, who are pleasant and helpful. Frequented by foreign (mostly North American) Christians and Chinese Christians - was started by a Canadian couple associated with Bless China (previously, Project Grace), who are no longer here, but no religious pressure or any of that. Steaks are nothing special, and I avoid the Korean dishes, which I've had a few times but which did not impress me.
As a shop and bakery, it's very good bread at reasonable prices, of various kinds (Y18 for a good multigrain loaf that certainly weighs well over a pound. Other stuff too, like granola and oatmeal that is local, as well as imported things, including American cornflakes and so forth, which some people seem to require.
Large portions, seriously so with the pizza, which is Brooklyn/American style, I guess. Convivial, conversational, good place to drink with good folks on both sides of the bar, especially after about 9PM.
Nowhere to kowtow in barren fields
发布者What I'm saying is, that in the current situation the political significance of the name is more important than whatever the British decided to call it. And accepted English politic-geographic names do change (e.g., Bombay is now Mumbai in English, Persia became Iran (the name that Iranis themselves use)). It's all okay with me, but you are right to consider the political significance of names.
Nowhere to kowtow in barren fields
发布者The name by which the country should be called should be left to the people of the country. The opposition to the name Myanmar within Burma and outside of it has come mostly from politicized people who oppose the governments of the past few decades, who renamed it Myanmar. I'm not sure how much this is an issue for those people today, but I'll be happy with whatever the people decide.
Foreign names for countries, including English names them, often have odd origins and this is rarely a real issue for anyone concerned, but in the Myanmar/Burma situation they have taken on political significance. I usually call the place Burma, because I really think that, in the last 52 years at least, the government has been little short of horrible. If you say that 'Burma' is the preferred term for the country among its inhabitants today you may well be right, but I really don't know.
Laos extradites drug suspects to Yunnan
发布者@HFCampo: Your description of smoking/nicotine addiction is ok but most smokers do not continually need to smoke more & more - I don't smoke any more now than I did decades ago.
Also, I don't understand why this is stealing from one's family.
I agree with you that nicotine addiction is a problem, and that this legal drug (nicotine) does more damage than some (not all) of the illegal drugs that you are so against.
Seems to me that, if, as you say, we cannot define which drugs should be illegal and which illegal, as the governments that you don't respect have all the power in this regard, it would also be the case that we have no power to oppose drugs like nicotine that are legal.
So - there are problems with drugs, both legal and illegal. What to do?
Nowhere to kowtow in barren fields
发布者Introduction to the article: the CEF troops were not PRC government military forces operating outside the PRC's borders because the PRC did not then exist. Neither was the CEF a Communist Party unit, though there may have been a few individual communist troops within it.
Nowhere to kowtow in barren fields
发布者On translation 'Burmese': the clearest way to distinguish ethnicity in the country once called Burma is to use the word 'Burmese' to refer to all citizens of Burma; the majority ethnic group in Burma are best called Burmans. Other ethnic groups are Karen, Kachin, Shan, etc.