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.
@Michael: in referring to the 'middle east', you mostly mean Central Asia, no? If not, I don't understand how your statement can apply to Iran and the Arab countries.
@Peter: Yes, It was his map that was the most widely-used one among western foreigners for quite awhile, but unfortunately y copy of the book does not have the map. However, in Davies' 1895 itinerary of his 2nd trip, her makes Nakoli at 4600 feet altitude, 12 miles north of Simao.
@Xiefei: H. R. Davies, in his YUN-NAN: THE LINK BETWEEN INDIA AND THE YANGTSE (pub. 1909; p. 99) writes that he started from Simao and started north (?) for Puer; road was "fairly easy"; they went up to 6,300 feet and descended to "Na-k'o-li" in one day, then spent the night there; following day they went 12&1/2 more miles to "Pu'erh Fu, the most important official town as Ssu-mao is the chief commercial town in this part of Yun-nan."
So, yeah, the names of the places are a little confusing.
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.
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发布者@Michael: in referring to the 'middle east', you mostly mean Central Asia, no? If not, I don't understand how your statement can apply to Iran and the Arab countries.
1920s China through the lens of Joseph Rock: Simao
发布者@Peter: copy, yeah.
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1920s China through the lens of Joseph Rock: Simao
发布者@Peter: Yes, It was his map that was the most widely-used one among western foreigners for quite awhile, but unfortunately y copy of the book does not have the map. However, in Davies' 1895 itinerary of his 2nd trip, her makes Nakoli at 4600 feet altitude, 12 miles north of Simao.
1920s China through the lens of Joseph Rock: Simao
发布者@Xiefei: H. R. Davies, in his YUN-NAN: THE LINK BETWEEN INDIA AND THE YANGTSE (pub. 1909; p. 99) writes that he started from Simao and started north (?) for Puer; road was "fairly easy"; they went up to 6,300 feet and descended to "Na-k'o-li" in one day, then spent the night there; following day they went 12&1/2 more miles to "Pu'erh Fu, the most important official town as Ssu-mao is the chief commercial town in this part of Yun-nan."
So, yeah, the names of the places are a little confusing.