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Forums > Living in Kunming > Does our baby need a visa to be in China?

@Ocean: I think this is about 'kids with parents one of which is of Chinese nationality/citizenship and one is not', not 'mixed-race', isn't it? I mean, they're not into sorting out, say, Australian foreigner parents with Chinese parentage from Australian parents who do not have Chinese parentage, considering them as members of different 'races', are they?

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Forums > Living in Kunming > New China visa regulations and applying for a visa

@Torangen: Yep, this has worked exactly as you say for other people too - although I'm not sure what you mean by 'unofficial agency' - place I know of has been in the visa-arranging business for about 20 years, seems perfectly legit and really knows what they are doing.

However, when did you do this? I only know that it worked about a year ago.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > How do you teach a class of teenagers?

@liumingke: I also think one can blame the reduction of education in China, as well as in plenty of other places, to the idea that it's only about cramming information, and that the goal is simply to soak up 'correct' answers, almost all of which are proclaimed to be fixed. I.e., I think there's a lot that could be better with educational policies in China, as well as official attitudes concerning true/false, right/wrong etc., thought in China generally.
In other words, it all becomes boring.

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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.

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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.

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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.