@ Ouyang
And most important of all,Tsingdao from Qingdao.

A taxi passenger opened his door into the cycle lane and I hit it.

The cops made the taxi driver compensate me. This was in Zhengzhou, but I think the same would happen in Kunming.

Actually I think I have worked out the logic of traffic, or at least a logic that can be applied.
Imagine a world of vehicles with no brakes, they can slow and alter course, but not quickly. Some are big and take longer to slow or alter course. Think about who needs to adjust speed for who, and how they avoid collisions. Imagine a set of unwritten rules of the road developing in this scenario.

There is a logic in keeping out of the big vehicles path (might is right), but if the big vehicle drives like a road hog expect collisions. The big guy is perhaps less aware of his own vulnerability than the little guy. In a collision the big guy is usually in the wrong, and being the owner of something big (rich) coughs up some money.
Imagine a world of horses, carts, rickshaws, and sedan chairs. No effective braking. Introduce cars and trucks, at first only for the powerful, then for the rich, and now a free for all.

TigerTiger's Theory of Road Relativity. ;-)

Yep, taobao has lots of 'ripped' books available. Probably the cheapest option for imported books, sometimes very cheap. However, class audio CDs are not always available.

@Ouyang, is it Tsinghua or Xinhua?
This bookstore can be good for student books but often not so good for teacher books.

There are a number of books published by Chinese universities. Notable Shanghai East China Normal, and Beijing Language and Culture Univ. Shanghai publishes it's own books, like 'Let's Talk' series. BJ tends to produce books in colaboration with western pulishers like Oxford Univ Press and Cambridge UP. The books seem to be rehashed early editions of established series of books. They are not up to date and for China market only. These books are also priced for the Chinese market and cost upwards of RMB30, a fraction of the cost of an imported book. Most of these books do not seem to have a teacher edition. One good exception is the Interchange series of books, which has teacher book, teacher resource book, and student study book.

I used to buy books on Amazon and get my daughter to bring them over with her, but now the selection on Kindle is growing rapidly. Although Kindle is not suitable if you want to photocopy. Unless someone knows an easy method.

Amazon USA do deliver to China, but Amazon UK don't; unless this has changed recently.

Buying direct from publishers Websites is an option. I got a set of books from MacMillan in 5 days. I paid an extra 23 GB Pounds for courier delivery. Expensive, relatively (it was a 100 Pound order), but an option.

Another option is Shanghai Book Traders (SBT), this is the Foreign Language Books Store on Fuzhou Lu in Shanghai. They have a good selection of books in stock, usually. They also have a mail order service and website, in Chinese, that looked a pig to navigate; but may be another option.

@Ed

Feedback on new homepage.

Red fonts on blue are hard to read.
New font on homepage is less easy to read than before. A real problem when using smaller screens.

There is a reason why some fonts have become prevalent, they are easy to read.

My 2cents.

Where you live in the city is important.
My housing development, although new, has poor infrastructure. China telecom refused to provide a 'faster' commercial internet service, as it was the infrastructure that was slowing it down.

Don't expect anything like broadband. They call it broadband, but it is in fact only wideband at best. The Chinese government has been complaining to the telecom providers to give better service, but nothing seems to be happening.

Perhaps we could do a quick survey on here, and people publish the speeds that they actually get. Best, normal, etc. And the district where they are living, if not the development they live in.