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Forums > Living in Kunming > Why do miserable foreigners remain in China?

Perhaps there's a middle way, which will necessarily require a certain awareness, not just of the situation as one sees it, but that communication, to work, requires awareness not only of what you want to say, but also of how you're going to be heard - otherwise you get miscommunication. Insults often work well when communication is no longer possible and there's nothing to do but fight - Last Resort Department, and most things aren't worth it.
As for changing things for the better, I think I've been changed for the better by many (not all) characteristics embedded in the Chinese sense of politeness. At any rate, if you're a foreigner somewhere, it would be ridiculous to imagine that you're likely to make any immediate dent in whatever you don't like locally, because you're always outnumbered by local habits. I'm sure this is as true in London as it is in Kunming.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Living barometer

Something about the build-up of electrical charges maybe - when big winds in the Med are about to start coming out of the Sahara (okay, different situation) it's been shown, apparently with scientific evidence, that people get jumpy & weird, & I think it's been traced to a build-up of electrical differentials between sky & land etc. Anyway, you might check out this electrical explanation, though I have no idea what to do about it.

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Forums > Food & Drink > suggestion on redwine

@blue: I plead guilty. I just meant to say that Great Wall doesn't give me nightmares, and that a regular diet of the sweet crap would make me give up alcohol entirely, or simply switch to bai jiu and be done with it - an acquired taste, which after many years in China I have only half acquired - anyway, I can handle it, especially in good Chinese company (8 people around a big table with a really fine feast on it, everybody loosens up, knows where this show is going and it's all good). But I'm not about to criticize first-time westerners with bai jiu - took me quite awhile, and I'm not quite there.
Wine (e.g. - with real grapes) in China is another matter, but progress is being made - actually, rather quickly, if you can think back just 15-20 years.

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This all sounds good and I hope many people will be there to contribute and/or bid up the auction items, but what is the Kunming Charities Commission and what happens to their 5% cut?

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The term "development" itself should only be used in a context where who is developing what for whom is made clear - this should be well understood by everybody by now, but I'm afraid it isn't, and the term is still used all over the place as if it necessarily indicates something that is good.
Again, I'm not really coming down on the author or the article, except insofar as it uses the political and economic language that has become common and often unremarked in the press, policy statements and academic papers. It is akin to that used in advertising, geared to manipulation before it is geared to communication.
The most dangerous Man is the one in yr head.

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The article is perhaps a bit long for what it says, but okay.

However, I strongly wish the authors of such articles would stop using the ridiculous term "the international community" when they are really talking about national governments and various organizations simply trying to align their policies. The language becomes increasingly degraded when words like 'community', which have serious meanings for real people, are used in this way. Foreigners in Kunming might or might not be reasonably referred to as forming an international community, but the idea of using the same word for something that national governments and organizations and international governments do is not simply a bastardization of meaningful language, it is also a bastardization of thought itself.
It's not all the fault of the author, except insofar as (s)he goes along with this terrible and misleading language.
"The Man has a branch office in each of our brains, his corporate emblem is a white albatross, each local rep has a cover known as the Ego, and their mission in this world is Bad Shit. We do know what's going on, and we let it go on." Thomas Pynchon

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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.