Forums > Living in Kunming > Smiles and China There are lots of studies and working papers about it:
www.china-mike.com/[...]
embots.dfki.de/mmc/mmc11/Luetal.pdf
www.plosone.org/[...]
jcc.sagepub.com/content/early/2013/11/28/0022022113513922
eview.anu.edu.au/cross-sections/vol6/pdf/ch08.pdf
And yes, you can blame it on Confucius. If you are inside the guanxi group, you smile. But you dont smile to people outside your guanxi group.
In 女子,女学 and 兒女英雄傳 it is described how a virtous woman is supposed to smile eg dont show your teeth...
The inside/outside guanxi thing also explains why Chinese poop next (and I really mean next to it) to the toilet in public toilets, but meet the hole and even flush the toilet in private.
Still, Chinese only pick and remember the things they want to. The above mentioned books also describe how a woman is supposed to behave, in which position to sleep, how to dress, how to approach husband and family and so on.
But to be honest, it's not a shame that a lot of cultural habits and traditions got lost during Maos time.
Forums > Living in Kunming > Cultural Colonialism The only authentic places on earth are the places where you cant buy coca cola: North Korea and Cuba
Forums > Living in Kunming > Cultural Colonialism The Chinese try to colonise themselves. The guy with the verruca took Karl Marx (German) ideas and opposed them upon his people. Obviously the people werent too happy about it. Besides, the real Karl Marx has nothing to do with what the Chinese understand. Well Chinese are very good at pick and choose. Every year a lot of Chinese travel to Germany to worship Marx.
==> colonising themselves
wear Italian clothes, drive German cars, drink French wine...
==> colonising themselves
still waiting for the sexual revolution in China though. About sexual education: China is lost, no hope
@blobbles: I havent seen that Chinese want to live like Americans. I hope they wont what a ecological disaster and there will be war all over the world (telling everybody that they have nuclear weapons instead of saying we want your ressouces, is not ok)
@laotou: Chinese always say that there have a 8000year long history, but that's there own definition. According to Western standarts definitely not.
Forums > Living in Kunming > Monthly expenses in Kunming rent: 2000kuai (fully furnished apartment in Green Lake area)
utility bills: 100kuai internet, 20kuai gas (cook every day at home), electricity 120kuai (no solar power only electric heater for water), water bill is only paid once a year
==> 2300kuai
Occasionaly eating out in Western and Chinese restaurants, but eat Western food at home (eg bread and cheese, cereal for breakfast) and buying a lot of fruit and dairy. Going out a the weekends to have a drink or two.
==> 2500kuai
plus travelling, clothes and so on
Forums > Living in Kunming > Cultural Colonialism Sure, forums are there to discuss things, but the way questions are asked reminds me of "The Sun".
And about transcending into other cultures. Maybe one day in the future, it will be normal for every Chinese to flush the toilet :-DD
Kunming launches first sightseeing bus
发布者@Alien: I was referring to fuel powered vehicles.
Kunming launches first sightseeing bus
发布者If I hadnt seen the bus today, one would think it's a joke. There is no need for a sight seeingbus. You need sights in order to have a sightseeing bus. Polluted lakes, construction sites, 'a village of tents' where builders sleep and the 2nd ring road are no sights. In cities like London and Paris it makes sense, because you can take photos of the Eiffel tower and Big Ben and so on. But here you cant see anything of the sights while sitting on the bus.
But this will only create more, definitely not needed, pollution when driving around all day long. I mean Higer is a Chinese brand. That means outdated, non environmental friendly technology. The red ribbon and the fancy colour dont help. The money the government spent on it could be better used for other things.
Kunming opens province's first 'baby refuge'
发布者@ Ocean: Just have a look on the Law of the People's Republic of China on Maternal and Infant Health Care, "Chapter II Pre-marital Health Care"
" Article 8 Pre-marital medical examination shall include the examination of the following diseases: genetic diseases of a serious nature; target infectious diseases; and relevant mental diseases."
It's not definite and leaves too much room for interpretation. So it can also apply for colour blind people, people with learning difficulties, people with big moles or large port-wine staines or any other kind of "diseases" that could be passed on the offspring. Doesnt matter whether it's actually from the medical point of view (Western standarts) hereditary or not.
And "Article 16 If a physician detects or suspects that a married couple in their child-bearing age suffer from genetic disease of a serious nature, the physician shall give them medical advice, according to which the said couple shall take corresponding measures." (abortion/sterilization)
www.chinalawedu.com/[...]
Anyway, there are a lot of good reasons to leave the baby in the 'baby refuge'. Most of them doesnt have anything to do with whether you want to be a mother or not.
Kunming opens province's first 'baby refuge'
发布者It seems most people dont know anything about single mothers in China.
Here are two good article that sum it up:
www.globaltimes.cn/content/790393.shtml
www.theguardian.com/[...]
On top, without marriage certificate technically you are not allowed to have children. They have to pay huge fines on an annual basis, the child doesnt get a hukou. It was even big on the news the other day. A mother in Hubei couldnt afford to pay the fines and the father was unwilling to marry her, so the 8 year old girl is still not able to go to school and so on.
Besides, the marriage law says:
"Article 6 No marriage may be contracted before the man has reached 22 years of age and the woman 20 years of age."
"Article 7 No marriage may be contracted under any of the following circumstances:
(2) if the man or the woman is suffering from any disease which is regarded by medical science as rending a person unfit for marriage."
Besides, the Chinese government offers a little financial bonus for every woman who gets sterilized after her 1st child.