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.
I think there are quite a few educational institutions in China now that are somewhat geared to providing education for those who don't do well on the gaokao but who have money, & therefore privilege. On the other hand, the gaokao is so badlyu conceived that it must certainly screen a lot of people out on the basis of, e.g, how many facts you can remember - as if this were the main point of higher education.
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.
Urban managers throw block party, no one attends
发布者'The Chengguan - Your Buddies' - 'we're so lonely' - gimme a break!
China university rankings released, Yunnan gets low marks
发布者@Magnifico: Good article.
China university rankings released, Yunnan gets low marks
发布者@Tiger: Right, 'back home' (?) things are bad too.
China university rankings released, Yunnan gets low marks
发布者I think there are quite a few educational institutions in China now that are somewhat geared to providing education for those who don't do well on the gaokao but who have money, & therefore privilege. On the other hand, the gaokao is so badlyu conceived that it must certainly screen a lot of people out on the basis of, e.g, how many facts you can remember - as if this were the main point of higher education.
Three executed for Kunming railway station attack
发布者Sounds fishy to me - if it's not, why is the state so closed-mouth about the whole thing?