Someone needs to drink a little pu'er tea and relax...
I think the question probably relates to being in a class with so many Westerners that the teacher winds up speaking in English (or French, Spanish, German, etc.) too much. Although the suggestion to immerse one's self in the street to learn language is a good one, it also takes some structured study to learn grammar, syntax and vocabulary well, especially in Yunnan where so many people can barely speak Putonghua.
The BBC article did a hack job in the section about Chenggong. There was virtually no discussion about the incomplete subway line, nor was there any mention of the other very successful Kunming project, the new airport. The accompanying photographs were awful, many of them shot with a fisheye lens that added nothing to the quality of the photographs. In all, for the BBC, it was a sloppily assembled piece.
@Liumingke1234, It never ceases to amaze me how prudish the Chinese appear to be on the surface. It's a country filled with 10's of millions of sex workers. 1.5 billion people didn't just appear through immaculate conception. Those who are appalled and ashamed by other's nudity should reassess their own twisted view of the world.
They can make all the rules and regulations the want, but until the rule of law actually exists in China it's nothing more than another reason for low level flunkies to trump up their sense of self importance and another opportunity for increasing the already rampant corruption.
Liumingke1234, why is it so sad that people want to live their own lives. Children do not ask to be born. It is a great conceit of parents to expect to be raised by their own parents and then to be taken care of by their children. Each generation is responsible for the future, not for the past.
If you are elderly and can't take care of yourself or haven't made arrangements to be taken care of, the only fault is your own (barring any unforeseen circumstances). We all know that we are to going to age and at some point become feeble. Why is it our children's responsibility to take care of us?
I ask this as a childless, 56 year old, who is an only child.
@laotou, thanks for your comment. I think that there are two completely different worlds at work here. The official CPC line about harmony is a thinly veiled ideal of group think and uniformity rather than the kind of community spirit and cooperation we normally think of. The other world is the continuous improvement in the well being of a large number, albeit a minority, of Chinese people who have formed a large middle class open to a world of ideas and information beyond Chinese borders. As their children are exposed to the benefits of communal responsibility, as they experience more and more acts of selfless kindness by those around them, social responsibility and true harmony may yet come I the next generation. Let's hope so....now what to do about the other 900 million Chinese!
You've lived in China long enough to realize that there is virtually no sense of communal responsibility. It's every man for himself. Think about the traffic, getting on a bus or trying to buy a train ticket. Because traiditionally one could not rely on anyone outside of immediate family, everyone else is suspect. Hence, no one is willing to get involved.
Thanks for the great interview. I'm delighted to hear about the, obviously, active classical music scene in Kunming. When I lived there, I'm ashamed to admit that I had no luck in finding concerts like those discussed in the interview. I always wondered what the students who bought all those instruments from the musical instruments stores lining one long street near downtown were doing with them. Now I know.
Caring for Yunnan's elderly in the one-child era
Posted byLiumingke1234, why is it so sad that people want to live their own lives. Children do not ask to be born. It is a great conceit of parents to expect to be raised by their own parents and then to be taken care of by their children. Each generation is responsible for the future, not for the past.
If you are elderly and can't take care of yourself or haven't made arrangements to be taken care of, the only fault is your own (barring any unforeseen circumstances). We all know that we are to going to age and at some point become feeble. Why is it our children's responsibility to take care of us?
I ask this as a childless, 56 year old, who is an only child.
Yunnan serial killer gets death penalty
Posted by@laotou, thanks for your comment. I think that there are two completely different worlds at work here. The official CPC line about harmony is a thinly veiled ideal of group think and uniformity rather than the kind of community spirit and cooperation we normally think of. The other world is the continuous improvement in the well being of a large number, albeit a minority, of Chinese people who have formed a large middle class open to a world of ideas and information beyond Chinese borders. As their children are exposed to the benefits of communal responsibility, as they experience more and more acts of selfless kindness by those around them, social responsibility and true harmony may yet come I the next generation. Let's hope so....now what to do about the other 900 million Chinese!
Yunnan serial killer gets death penalty
Posted byYou've lived in China long enough to realize that there is virtually no sense of communal responsibility. It's every man for himself. Think about the traffic, getting on a bus or trying to buy a train ticket. Because traiditionally one could not rely on anyone outside of immediate family, everyone else is suspect. Hence, no one is willing to get involved.
Interview: Howard Dyck
Posted byThanks for the great interview. I'm delighted to hear about the, obviously, active classical music scene in Kunming. When I lived there, I'm ashamed to admit that I had no luck in finding concerts like those discussed in the interview. I always wondered what the students who bought all those instruments from the musical instruments stores lining one long street near downtown were doing with them. Now I know.
Kunming police launch website for foreigners
Posted byAs usual, it's nothing but a show. The "laws" may be written, but until there is rule of law, it's all a bad joke. They are deluding themselves.