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Forums > Living in Kunming > Places (Province) to live in China.

Don't forget Taiwan. I lived there a total of about 5 years, really liked the people, the savvy that comes with free speech/press, the food, the lower level of serious poverty, many things - but I gather the intended discussion here is the PRC-mainland.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Trying to buy a dog

@ tiger: you may have a point here about farmer's dogs etc., but if you get the dog as a puppy and treat him well, you're problem not going to have this problem. I doubt if many farmers' dogs are of any particular breed, illegal or otherwise. Note that farm kids grow up with farmer's dogs, successfully, for the most part.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Health Certificate

Michael's experience written above indicates to me that the control freaks in national bureaucracies are either paranoid as hell, stupid as hell, or that they really hate people.

Maybe the three syndromes run together.

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Forums > Travel Yunnan > Lost utility knife at security checkpoint, again

Must be 3-4 years ago I took a train from Kunming to Guangzhou from the main train station. I've done this many times, but this was the only time the check-baggage guys wanted to take my Swiss army knife - and they had a big pile of knives they'd already confiscated in a tray. The knife has a personal sentimental value to me, as it is not only an excellent knife but was a gift from a former student. I said No man now look if you're going to take the knife from me I'll just turn around and not take the train. After some discussion the guy said something like "Oh - well, then stick it deep within your luggage somewhere". I did and got on the train and all was cool.
I'm still not sure what this was about, unless the check-baggage guys had seen an opportunity and collected a hell of a lot of good pocket knives for personal redistribution/sale, or unless they got some new broom running their operation who was being meticulous about his new job.
Never happened to me again and I've never seen these guys confiscating knives at the train station again, but I no longer carry a pocket knife when traveling by long-distance public transportation.

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Suggest the drinking is related to difficulties of adaptations to, and even of any clear understanding of, rapid socio-cultural change coming from the outside and the denigration of local culture involved, both in objective terms - insecure sense of identities, commoditization, new irrelevance of traditional cultural understandings, etc. Doesn't exactly strike me as mysterious. Religion, including 'new' religion, can play a part in this, either aggressively or defensively, but usually a bit ambiguously, a bit of both.

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Plenty of articles about problems caused by hydropower. 'Cleaner', well, maybe, but clearly not good enough in the long run, which is going to require further development of solar, geothermal, wind, etc. It's going to be expensive in terms of money, but that's where the money has to be put in. In the meantime, maybe you've got a point, but the meantime isn't going to last all that long, and it's probably not a good idea to move too many people around, silt up dams, ruin fisheries, risk dam collapses in earthquake-prone areas and all the rest...no, I don't know a lot about this stuff, and burning fossil fuels, including natural gas, is obviously lousy, and nuclear power is really good and clean and safe until it isn't (Japan, not long ago)...okay, I'm no expert.

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@ michael: Got your point. Southeast Asian countries are closer, but then Viet Nam, Laos, Myanmar have plenty of hydroelectric power generation potential of their own, although some of them (Laos, for instance, which can and to some extent does provide power to Thailand) probably don't have the cash to develop it. Rather doubt that Viet Nam, for one, would want to become dependent on Chinese power generation.

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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.

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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.

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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.