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 get you, but I wonder just how many farmers can be moved into middle class urban environments and leave the farming to advanced agricultural methods - question remains how many farmers China needs. And I dunno.
Also, with rice farming, I think it is difficult to produce the economies of scale that are possible with other crops (e.g., wheat) - hard to achieve the per-hectare yields that are possible with intensive labor, and this in a highly populous country with relatively little agricultural land (I mean, China is mostly not very flat - tribute to be bad by the enormous labor resources put into slope land over many, many centuries) - but this is not my field, not sure what the most advanced agricultural methods may be capable of in terms of large-scale farming these days).
@dazzer, yeah, they do, but then where do cppcc members come from?
And I suspect, even if it's true that the money put into the documentary was all her own, she had some assurance before she started that it wasn't going to lead to arrest or censorship. So I think it's probably a put-up job, to some extent, but am glad anyway, because if the state is happy enough to have it out there, then it must indicate an increased policy emphasis on their part.
Large prominent articles on this documentary appeared on either Monday or Tuesday or maybe both in the China Daily and Global Times - in other words, the state wanted you to know about it.
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.
Documentary Under the Dome captivates China
发布者I get you, but I wonder just how many farmers can be moved into middle class urban environments and leave the farming to advanced agricultural methods - question remains how many farmers China needs. And I dunno.
Documentary Under the Dome captivates China
发布者Also, with rice farming, I think it is difficult to produce the economies of scale that are possible with other crops (e.g., wheat) - hard to achieve the per-hectare yields that are possible with intensive labor, and this in a highly populous country with relatively little agricultural land (I mean, China is mostly not very flat - tribute to be bad by the enormous labor resources put into slope land over many, many centuries) - but this is not my field, not sure what the most advanced agricultural methods may be capable of in terms of large-scale farming these days).
Documentary Under the Dome captivates China
发布者@dazzer, yeah, they do, but then where do cppcc members come from?
And I suspect, even if it's true that the money put into the documentary was all her own, she had some assurance before she started that it wasn't going to lead to arrest or censorship. So I think it's probably a put-up job, to some extent, but am glad anyway, because if the state is happy enough to have it out there, then it must indicate an increased policy emphasis on their part.
Documentary Under the Dome captivates China
发布者@Dazzer: vote?
Documentary Under the Dome captivates China
发布者Large prominent articles on this documentary appeared on either Monday or Tuesday or maybe both in the China Daily and Global Times - in other words, the state wanted you to know about it.