Forums > Living in Kunming > Yunnan Thinking and Ways Culture changes. Driving culture in China does not presently satisfy many drivers. To mention this should not be taken as some attack on Chinese culture in general - I don't think that's what the great majority of drivers, who are of course Chinese, mean to do when they recognize that traffic conditions could and can be better. Things change, it takes time, unfortunately, and there's no point in defending the present in the name of face.
In the meantime, as always, one must live with imperfection. Best not to contribute to it.
Forums > Living in Kunming > where to live in Kunming ? Corto, you can get all of what you are asking for, even the AC, probably, though you really won't need it.
Forums > Living in Kunming > Yunnan Thinking and Ways OK then, vent, people need to vent, it's better than irresponsible explosions (note dangerous explosion at Salvador's one night 2-3 years ago), but please don't make mountains out of molehills or go about insulting people. Why not just vent in the garden shed, or with friends in private somewhere? Gokunming is a public forum, better for using brains than exploding about not-yet-familiar annoyances. Me, I shout at my computer, don't think I'll ever adapt fully to the *&%# little bastard.
As for culture shock, it's pretty common, but a lousy experience while it lasts. My sympathies, I've had to go through it more than once, but it's possible to get through it.
And yeah, the traffic is a mess, I agree - and every single driver on the road has to deal with it. Most succeed. No, you don't have to like it.
1920s China through the lens of Joseph Rock: Simao
发布者@Peter: Do you know if the staff will let you photocopy them (at least the ones that are not falling apart)?
1920s China through the lens of Joseph Rock: Simao
发布者Don't know about possible copyrights or whatever - I'd imagine there'd be no problem today - but it would be really GREAT if your copy of this very important map were available through gokunming - a real public service.
1920s China through the lens of Joseph Rock: Dali
发布者My typo: 'shan-shui', not 'sjan-shui'.
1920s China through the lens of Joseph Rock: Dali
发布者Note the similarity of the next-to-last photo to the type of composition you see in traditional sjan-shui (mountain and water) style of Chinese painting - I'll bet Rock thought of that when he set up the photo.
I don't think it's necessary to be a Western exoticist or orientalist of the old and somewhat insulting 'gosh what a wonderful thing these foreigners have managed to produce' school of thought (a bit similar to the 'wonderful minority cultures' syndrome among Han Chinese) to suggest we compare these interesting and fine photos of Dali to all the commoditized, commercialized tourist crap that has taken over Dali, and many other interesting places in Yunnan, over the past 20 years or so. 'Progress' is always just great, isn't it?
1920s China through the lens of Joseph Rock: Simao
发布者@Peter: don't understand why you use the word 'prophet', or why Rock is the only Western Yunnan one.