Chichi: your story about the changing room: being male I rarely get to enter women's changing rooms, but I've never heard that the practices you mentioned are widespread, so the explanation may not have to do with specifically Chinese attitudes at all - if it does, I don't understand it either. However, above you mentioned 'so much body hair' - now I'm not surre what you're referring to.
Seems to me bonuses and penalties are flip sides of the same coin - if the contract is one year, the 10% withheld is returned, in effect, as a bonus. However, schools that suddenly decide to withhold 10% of agreed-upon monthly pay, with this not having been stated in the original contract, should be publicized as being run by aholes, avoided, and hauled before whatever labor tribunal you can find that will listen.
Agree with Tiger's comments. 2000-2500Y per month is a little tight, but it can be done - does this include rent?
Sounds harsh. How long are the contracts for? Result of traditional year-end bonus policy should (and I think often does) keep employees to their contracts. In some places (Hong Kong) these bonuses are in the neighborhood of a month's pay.
Body hair might have to do with the lack of any strong cultural feeling that there shouldn't be any. One might ask why there is so little in places where it's thought that body hair is bad.
Internal heat is largely limited to buildings located north of the Yangzi River.
I think there are a few driving rules but many of them are not enforced.
I find that lots of self-preservation goes on among Chinese, tho if you're talking about safe automobile transport, it is aided largely by the fact that drivers in China don't usually drive all that fast. Numerous other possible self-preservation tactics are not so regularly employed.
Note that 9 or so years ago in Kunming there were very few drivers of private cars, and so the learning process is less than finished. Drivers now are individually a bit better, on average, I think, but the lousy growth in road traffic has brought, and does bring, further problems.
Do your part and get yourself one of those public bicycles, ride the bus, walk, etc.
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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.
China hands out happy city awards, Kunming sad
发布者Social cooperation is also hard-wired into the individuals of an innately social species such as ourselves, without which the individuals of our species would not have survived to pass on any genes..Rouseau's 'noble savage' never existed, both he and Hobbes were wrong.
China hands out happy city awards, Kunming sad
发布者Subjective reports of happiness mean something, but I'm not sure what.
Kunming smells part II: The good, the bad and the ugly
发布者You get used to it all after awhile, as most of Kunming's 7 million inhabitants surely have.
Government sues parents to get kids back to school
发布者@nnoble: don't follow - who or what is rotting? I can think of various candidates, but I'm not sure which one you're talking about.
Government sues parents to get kids back to school
发布者There are economic issues concerning education in China for very poor communities, which obviously need a bigger share of the economic pie than they are getting. Yet China's 'socialist market economy' is increasing the overall level of economic resources within China.
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