Too weird.
Too weird.
US media c.1988: read Manufacturing Consent, by Herman & Chomsky
Stores everywhere. Metro up Beijing Road, area called Beichen, not really near the center, but plenty of foreigners around there, and reasonably quiet. A Carrefour near there too. Modern apartments in the area. Main Walmart is near, or maybe in, the center, near the main Carreefour - there are several Carrefours and Walmarts, but I don't know where they all are as I rarely use Carrefour and never use Walmart or, so far, Metro.
@Blobbles: Note that I put 'assimilating' in ' ' - I don't think the word is appropriate, and I think what you say about assimilation in China is correct. My guess is that the word 'adaption' is more or less what the writer meant - one can adapt, although I won't argue that 100% adaption is possible either - I never completely adapted to the place where I grew up. I don't think it's a good idea to deny who one is, where one comes from or what one eats, whether it's traditional to where they come from or not - I don't. However, people do change, and who one is changes, to varying degrees, and nobody has to be a slave to tradition.
1. All over.
2. Yes, I guess so.
Taufic, if you're thinking of moving here, I strongly suggest that you come take a look at the place first.
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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.
Too bourgeois.
Really good pizza and steaks. The wine machine fuddles me when I'm a bit fuddled, & seems unnecessary. Good folks on both sides of the bar.
Ain't no flies on Salvador's.
Report: Kunming police fire shots on Wenlin Jie
发布者I seriously doubt that many thieves would arm themselves with guns just to steal an ebike.
Report: Kunming police fire shots on Wenlin Jie
发布者Don't go killing people over an ebike, or firing shots that hit public buses, gunfire makes me nervous. Seems there is indeed a doubt about their having machetes. Apparently no civilian was killed in either this incident or the previous one.
But yeah - catch these guys.
Kunming police now permitted to carry sidearms
发布者@yuantongsi: I agree, a little scary - shooting at people for stealing an ebike is a bit much, especially around a public bus.
Around Town: Kunming's new and improved Railway Museum
发布者Edit button unavailable - anyway, the southern sections were actually destroyed earlier, after the Germans took France and Indochina came under Vichy French rule, under the eyes of the Japanese, who took over Viet Nam directly only in 1945.
Around Town: Kunming's new and improved Railway Museum
发布者Amazing construction project. The railroad never made a profit, but it had a great deal to do with the modern history of Yunnan. The old museum was already good. Marbotte's book, Un chemin de fer au Yunnan: L'aventure d'une famille francaise en Chine, is an interesting read - many of the construction bosses were Italian, and many of the maintenance workers were Vietnamese - within these groups, in later years, Ho Chi Minh and other future Vietnamese leaders were able to move. Southern sections of the RR were intentionally destroyed by the Chinese after the Japanese took French Indochina, to prevent possible invasion of Yunnan.