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I'm involved in translating a French traveler's account of Yunnan in the 1870s. I know that there are other Kunming expats writing/editing seriously.
I'm involved in translating a French traveler's account of Yunnan in the 1870s. I know that there are other Kunming expats writing/editing seriously.
Re: books, there are fair numbers of books circulating on-line in the e-mule/a-mule file sharing system. It's random, of course, but it's a cheap way to acquire, eg, the entire Cambridge History of China. It's all pirated, I would suspect, but "it is a marvelous thing to be a pirate king."
Rosaa, there used to be a reading group which met at The Box (bar in the Wen Lin Jie area). It seems to have died down at the moment, but there's no reason it can't be revived.
If you don't like being targeted as a laowai, wear old-fashioned Chinese clothes, get a cap without a brim, and before you know, people will be asking where in Xinjiang you are from or even addressing you in Uighur!
Don't hesitate to move back to your white, tight, suburb if you don't like it here. Personally, I love it all, good and bad.
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The beer is good. The food, OK, if you're dying for something Western. Food service is better in the daytime, mamahuhu in the night time.
I haven't stayed in their guesthouse, but I'll guess it's noisy in the night times.
Prague Cafe in Bei Chen Walking Street is Prague III.
There are other branches in Wen Lin Jie and in Lijiang.
I've been a long time customer of the Wen Lin branch.
Both Kunming branches are pleasant places to meet and chat with friends.
The food may not be the cheapest, but the cheapest would be from the street vendors.
I meet and drink coffee with friends at the Wen Lin PC several times weekly, especially since the Yun Joy Cafe is no more.
I've been drinking Beer Lao and coffee here, off and on for some years.
It's always a pleasant place to relax. The food is good as well. Close to cheap hotels and bike rental on Manting Lu, too.
Kunming's reservoirs, rivers drying up
发布者Yet some people still pretend there's no global warming.
Kunming's Qiu He era ends
发布者I miss the urban villages, with their unique businesses and human scale.
Rising food prices driving inflation across Yunnan
发布者That's what happens when you take a lot of farmland out of production. The food has to come from somewhere else and probably costs more.
Inside Kunming's 'dwarf empire'
发布者Everybody has to earn a living somehow and performing at Dwarf Empire probably beats some other things. Don't like it? Don't go.
Inside Kunming's 'dwarf empire'
发布者Dwarf martial arts sounds kind of interesting!