I see no evidence that the word 'Hump' is dying out these days, though it would be surprising for it to be brought up frequently, as WWII ended 71 years ago. The fact that Japanese atrocities etc. or the period are brought up frequently has a lot to do with the government.
In case the penny didn't drop, I previously wrote to agree with Campo. I do not take cutesy hellos or whatever as an attack, and I don't think Campo does either. As for the overall discussion of violence in China, I agree it happens, and that much of the reasoning that several writers have presented sometimes does have to do with why it happens. I also know foreigners who seem to respond to minor things in a way that makes the situation worse, and also some whose own attitudes about, and behavior towards, Chinese people are offensive. And there is also violence sometimes between Chinese people, and between foreigners.
When I add it all up, I don't worry a lot when I go out, which is often. Running into violence or seeing it - I've done both here - simply doesn't occur so often that it's necessary to be on your guard alla time. The attack that started this thread was simply an exception to the norm.
Is there violence in China? Yes, of course, what would you expect?
@ Campo: Despite our various differences, I'm with you on what you've written above, unless you wanted to include passing young kids saying 'laowai' in a cutesy voice as a 'verbal attack' - which would strike me as ridiculous, and I don't think you're being ridiculous.
I think there's no correlation of any importance. I'm not sure if I'd take your bet, as I'm not sure you understand my political worldview - and, yeah, I might change it, and/or continue to develop the way I apply it.
Anyway, let me know if some evidence of significant correlation shows up - after all, foreigners have been punched before, making less of a big deal out of Obama's visit probably has to do with the South China Sea (which, granted, might somewhat reinforce xenophobia), and I haven't seen any evidence that the closing of the Hump has anything to do with xenophobia. Fill us all in if you know more.
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Not quite what you'd call a jumping place, but not bad at all for rather standard US-type meals, not overly expensive, and with a really good salad bar that's cheap, or free with most dinner dishes after 5:30PM. You can get a bottle of beer or even wine if you really want to, but I've never seen anybody do it - maybe that's just to take out. Chinese Christian run, and they hire people with physical disadvantages, who are pleasant and helpful. Frequented by foreign (mostly North American) Christians and Chinese Christians - was started by a Canadian couple associated with Bless China (previously, Project Grace), who are no longer here, but no religious pressure or any of that. Steaks are nothing special, and I avoid the Korean dishes, which I've had a few times but which did not impress me.
As a shop and bakery, it's very good bread at reasonable prices, of various kinds (Y18 for a good multigrain loaf that certainly weighs well over a pound. Other stuff too, like granola and oatmeal that is local, as well as imported things, including American cornflakes and so forth, which some people seem to require.
Large portions, seriously so with the pizza, which is Brooklyn/American style, I guess. Convivial, conversational, good place to drink with good folks on both sides of the bar, especially after about 9PM.
Too bourgeois.
Really good pizza and steaks. The wine machine fuddles me when I'm a bit fuddled, & seems unnecessary. Good folks on both sides of the bar.
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Yunnan could hold model for China's labor camp reforms
Posted byA move in the right direction: disallow the cops from sending people who have not been tried for any crime to up to 4 years of forced labor. I wonder why they didn't think of that before.
Report: Yunnan drug war "extremely dangerous"
Posted byI wish journalists would stop using the category 'drugs', or even 'illegal drugs', as if it explained what the substances are and what they do (are we talking about weed or smack? or perhaps whiskey, in some countries?) - it instills a very ambiguous category into the human brain, so that it can't think clearly (ie., similar to many 'drugs' which have the advantage of wearing off after awhile, besides the fact that the 'drug' user KNOWS that he's inflicted weirdness upon himself). And at any rate, there's no excuse for the state in which we live to go about executing people, China has plenty of prisons, and my thought would be to decrease the number of killings, intentional or otherwise, not increase them.
Yuxi university working to preserve minority languages
Posted byI agree with szbruce - the idea of using hanyu pinyin would, however, perhaps encourage any non-mother-tongue users of the language (such as most Chinese, and non-Chinese who don't go to IPA (as most won't)) to pronounce it in a similar manner to the pronunciation of Chinese, and so in this way to move in the direction of a 'sinicization' of the languages (essentially, to make Han Chinese a sort of standard for these languages). This sounds suspiciously like a nationalist move, and perhaps that is what is intended.
Jianshui: southern Yunnan's cultural gem
Posted bySome years ago (maybe 4) one could/couldn't actually stay at Zhu Family Gdns (unless you were some kinda government bigshot), but it is perhaps a hotel now?
Kunming Environmental Court toiling in obscurity
Posted byIf the 6 people on this court's staff are indeed serious about what they are trying to do, I really feel for them, as the priorities for 'development' run straight counter to them. Keep up the good work, and perhaps it might be best if these folks didn't keep too much booze around the house, especially if they live alone.