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Forums > Living in Kunming > check on apartment ownership

I've been in Kunming for over 10 years but always in the same flat. Now I've just given a retainer sum to the landlord of another flat, through a real estate guy. Occurs to me I have no proof that the landlord, whom I met, actually owns the flat. I would suppose the real estate agent would share some responsibility for this, but I don't know.
Any suggestions?

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Forums > Travel Yunnan > China Eastern again

Horror show. If the baggage staff et al were trained as well as the pilots...somehow doesn't surprise me that they were not.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > election in US

You may be right, Napoleon - perhaps the Trump election in the US will make no difference whatever to the world outside US borders. So ok, we'll wait and see.

And I agree about too much American tv, which tends to promote US presidential elections as being the world standard for 'democracy' and 'freedom' and 'progress' and 'development' and so forth, and US society as the subsection of the species to which all other groups aspire to attain, and which they can attain, if they'll just listen to US ideals, protection of private corporate 'rights' throughout the world (some of which corporations may be based inside the US and are to be defended by the president & friends), etc.

Bottom line really is that it's not simply a matter of Trump as president - although before we get to the bottom line a lot of crazy sh*t can happen. My highly unscientific prediction, for which I give no evidence or argument whatsoever, is that it will (all tightly sealed within the US borders, of course(?))

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Forums > Living in Kunming > election in US

Napoleon, to imagine that the government of one country does not influence the lives of people everywhere makes it hard for us to understand the presence of foreign troops, international money interests, the international exploitation of labor by capital, the level of the stock market, the many incidents of state violence outside the borders of the state, the presence in various countries of hundreds of thousands of refugees from war and poverty...or maybe, somehow, none of this has anything to do with the government of the US?

We are involved in a historical sea change, and none of us are going to like it.

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@Michael: I think there's a lot wrong with nationalism in today's world. However, overall I agree that more preschools are good, and 'free' in a socialist country would not be an amazing step forward but would be what socialists are supposed to do. My point is just that the indoctrination is the downside, and requires more space for different opinions in the overall political/media/educational culture from which its shortsightedness may be counteracted, and on that score there's a long way to go.

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All sounds good. But the flip side to universal compulsory state-run education, in China and everywhere, is that the state wants you to turn over your kids to them, for longer & longer periods of time, so that they can be molded into members of The Nation - which is something that they, of course, are very interested in doing. Cf, for example, church education where it exists.
I'm not suggesting kids should be kept ignorant of the world they'll have to deal with, but it's still a global conundrum.

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If you mean 'None of the stuff ever sold in LIJIANG is by customer demand', I'd suggest it does get customer acceptance, because when you go somewhere you have to buy some crap, and the crap on sale is apparently acceptable. And the lack of local shopkeepers is indeed a profit ripoff from the local culture. Most of the tourists are not really interested in local culture, but only in what they would like to believe is local culture - and even most of them know they are getting lied to.
However, there is no society without culture, Revolution or no. Lijiang is, pretty much, Chinese tourist culture. 'The real China' is a bit vague, but Chinese tourist culture is part of it.

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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.