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Yes, i contacted the person in Shanghai and will have a look if she is able to help me and in what way.

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I don´t think that I cross anyones lines, I was just asking for some advices and wanted to let you know about my progress, as i got so many answers. :)

Forums > Study > research in China

I´m sorry for wasting your time when I was talking about my progress or not progress. I searched for some advices and I got a lot of advices. You don´t need to tell me anything, because obviousely we don´t have the same opinion.

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Yes I know. But I guess many people would be happy if they would have the option. But by the way, only because my supervisor sent me the email address of a person he knows personally in Shanghai doesn´t mean I can go there. Of course I will sent her an email, but I will also try to make clear that I plannend to go to Pu'er.

It´s just, once there was a PhD student at my University who also went to Yunnan doing fieldwork, he went to Xishuangbanna. So I thought, having that in mind, there will also be the chance that I can go to Yunnan, as there already was a person who went to Yunnan. I did a lot of research finding the a good University that also fits my wishes (yes, I am only a student and the people who work there have the knowledge) but I considered what others wrote about and then chose the University. So I think, that I am now a bit disappointed because my supervisor just says "find another way" is okay, because he didn´t think about how to go to Yunnan, it´s just the comfort zone, because he has a contact in Shanghai. That is my opinion. I´m not the kind of person who just says "my supervisor recommended me that, so I will do that", because it is my dissertation, I will do fieldwork, I will be there for around one year, I have to fit into it, I have to write about it and I have to feel comfortable. Going from fieldwork in Pu'er to fieldwork in Shanghai is huge for me, it´s not the same, it´s not what I imagined and it´s not what I so far wrote about in my dissertation.

So Pu'er doesn´t have a language school that offers chinese, only english, another step that didn´t work out.

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I would lie if I would say that I already know people in Pu'er wouldn´t be important for me.
But I also can tell, I was once in Beijing for holiday and I felt so uncomfortable, I wanted to leave after a few days. I just don´t feel comfortable in such big cities, it gives me too much pressure, I feel lost all the time.
Of course, Shanghai also has great culture and I know it is more open minded. But I just can´t imagine going there.
I have to think it through