The Book Club will meet Tuesday, January 9, 2018, at The Park, to discuss Mikhail Bulgakov's novel, THE MASTER AND MARGARITA, in which Satan arrives in both Roman Jerusalem 2000 years ago and in Moscow in the stalinist 1930's and turns out to be the most interesting and dramatic dude in town (think Milton's PARADISE LOST).
The Kunming Book Club has a wechat group in which many regular attendees participate, but meetings are open to all. Readings, locations and times of meets are chosen by attendees. New participants welcome.
That's creeping up on Chinese New Year, so you might want to check early on tickets to Jinghong. From Jinghong on you can probably just buy tickets the day before at the bus station.
Yahoo is not a brilliant site for news, but it works consistently for me here - perhaps there was a glitch for a week or so once, but that was a long time ago, can't quite remember.
I am a foreigner and at my local PSB I have never needed my landlord to go with me to register, I just needed lease and photocopy of his ID the first time, when I moved in. Later trips in and out of the country, I just had to show up with my passport - did this last week.
Don't go killing people over an ebike, or firing shots that hit public buses, gunfire makes me nervous. Seems there is indeed a doubt about their having machetes. Apparently no civilian was killed in either this incident or the previous one.
But yeah - catch these guys.
Edit button unavailable - anyway, the southern sections were actually destroyed earlier, after the Germans took France and Indochina came under Vichy French rule, under the eyes of the Japanese, who took over Viet Nam directly only in 1945.
Amazing construction project. The railroad never made a profit, but it had a great deal to do with the modern history of Yunnan. The old museum was already good. Marbotte's book, Un chemin de fer au Yunnan: L'aventure d'une famille francaise en Chine, is an interesting read - many of the construction bosses were Italian, and many of the maintenance workers were Vietnamese - within these groups, in later years, Ho Chi Minh and other future Vietnamese leaders were able to move. Southern sections of the RR were intentionally destroyed by the Chinese after the Japanese took French Indochina, to prevent possible invasion of Yunnan.
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.
Report: Kunming police fire shots on Wenlin Jie
发布者I seriously doubt that many thieves would arm themselves with guns just to steal an ebike.
Report: Kunming police fire shots on Wenlin Jie
发布者Don't go killing people over an ebike, or firing shots that hit public buses, gunfire makes me nervous. Seems there is indeed a doubt about their having machetes. Apparently no civilian was killed in either this incident or the previous one.
But yeah - catch these guys.
Kunming police now permitted to carry sidearms
发布者@yuantongsi: I agree, a little scary - shooting at people for stealing an ebike is a bit much, especially around a public bus.
Around Town: Kunming's new and improved Railway Museum
发布者Edit button unavailable - anyway, the southern sections were actually destroyed earlier, after the Germans took France and Indochina came under Vichy French rule, under the eyes of the Japanese, who took over Viet Nam directly only in 1945.
Around Town: Kunming's new and improved Railway Museum
发布者Amazing construction project. The railroad never made a profit, but it had a great deal to do with the modern history of Yunnan. The old museum was already good. Marbotte's book, Un chemin de fer au Yunnan: L'aventure d'une famille francaise en Chine, is an interesting read - many of the construction bosses were Italian, and many of the maintenance workers were Vietnamese - within these groups, in later years, Ho Chi Minh and other future Vietnamese leaders were able to move. Southern sections of the RR were intentionally destroyed by the Chinese after the Japanese took French Indochina, to prevent possible invasion of Yunnan.