@bilingual: Perhaps one problem might be that of imagining posters here and elsewhere constituting a 'community' through their posts. Words lose their meanings when stretched too far. Serious communal reality has to be elsewhere.
@bilingual: Perhaps one problem might be that of imagining posters here and elsewhere constituting a 'community' through their posts. Words lose their meanings when stretched too far. Serious communal reality has to be elsewhere.
@ satirical and bilingual: Interesting. Seems the problem is that posters tend to think of of their activity as social interaction' rather than as participants in a discussion (such as, for example, one often sees in academia (seminars, etc.), although I'm not saying that's perfect either). I think the substitution of electronic contact for real social interaction (you know, where people actually meet and deal with people rather than with (often useful) electronic intermediaries) is scary. Results tend to be that people go around taking disagreement personally, and personally attack those whose info or thinking is different from or opposed to their own.
Strikes me as childish, and perhaps even a bit paranoid.
A broader social problem here, symptomatic, perhaps, of what we imagine 'Progress' to be (i.e., primarily material and oriented around the promotion of competitive commodity production).
Reckon that's as far as I should go in the direction of getting off the immediate subject today.
zuopaopao: Why?
In the canteens you can eat cheap. The food is okay, sometimes pretty good with a lot of selection. You can get by for about Y40 a day for food in canteens if you want to.
My suggestion for downvotes stands - they're appropriate when somebody's simply not talking about the thread.
But for god's sake, either downvote or don't, but talk about something more interesting.
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I'm not a health foody but the few meals I've had here have been really good and, yeah, I'll be happy to go back alone to sample all the rest of them. It's also not a bad place from which to people-watch the street below.
From student to sculpture artist: 20 years in Yunnan with Matti Dubee
Posted byNot sure if my comment is clear, meant to be a joke. What I meant was, the exhibit is really worth seeing; thing about Matti with hair refers to the photo above.
From student to sculpture artist: 20 years in Yunnan with Matti Dubee
Posted by(1): Go see the exhibit.
(2): AMAZING to see Matti with hair!
Province-wide dragnet targets illegal ivory trade
Posted byWonders of Economic Competition Dept.: produces such nice players.
China-South Asia Expo takes over Kunming
Posted bySilk Road - yeah, romantic. Sucks you right in.
China-South Asia Expo takes over Kunming
Posted byThey needed a name that was suitably vague but easy to remember. The thing that needs to be done is to figure out what this really means in terms of the hundreds of millions of people that it will affect.