@DanTheMan: Thanks, unfortunately 2pm is in middle of our son's nap time so a bit of a hurdle.

Any chance this establishment would be serving doner kebab?

Our one year old has developed a taste for Peking opera. Besides a specific shoe commercial, the acts on CCTV-11 never fail to catch his attention.

Now I'm wondering if those above mentioned places still exist, and whether the shows would be suitable to go with small children?

Specifically, are the show times manageable and is it easy to escape once the little ones become bored? Or any other places in Kunming where such could be seen live?

On a related note, I suspect that this taste is not limited to our child - I'd guess colorful attires and the music and funny singing can keep most toddlers entertained for a while.

I'd be quite surprised if the Chinese government wouldn't be sponsoring cultural heritage by arranging these shows specifically to families of young children, with kid-friendly show times and durations. Perhaps a little funnies thrown here and there.

Certainly there is still huge underground market FOR unqualified teachers, because most "schools" know nothing about regulations governing foreign employees.

Take every art school for kids for example - they'd happily hire a foreigner to give some English classes on the side of their main business (art education), thus attracting more paying customers.

However, my impression is that foreigners themselves are nowadays more aware of the regulations, when they come to China.

So to answer the question, I think it is happening less than before, but no thanks to the employer side.

It is one thing to moderate and delete off-topic and trolling posts, but quite another thing to draw a line between paid and non-paid advertising and delete posts on those grounds.

Also not having seen the original post deleted, but from what I read between lines, a discussion of classical western orchestra playing and apparently regularly training in Kunming would serve sustained and long-term interest of expats and others who take such music as hobby (or even profession). As well as casual readers.

But I get that if the focus of the post was more on a single concert, it would probably belong under paid advertised events.