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Go to the new Fu De second hand market, near the new South Bus Station. (A couple blocks south of the south train station.) Easiest way to get there: bus #127, caught somewhere along Long Quan Lou or Yi-er-yi Street. If you head south on Qing Nian Rd., keep going south after it turns in Nan Ba Rd., and go through the big clover leaf. It should be on your right, as you head south. It more or less replaces the 2d hand market that used to be on Bai Yun Rd. Lots of 2d hand bikes, computers, etc., etc.
Fundraiser: buying rice threshers for Guizhou farmers
Posted byIs the thresher expensive to operate? Does it need a lot of gasoline or electricity to run?
New provincial museum nears completion
Posted byIt looks hideous.
Last bastion of Kunming's Muslim quarter: Jinniu Jie Mosque
Posted byCaravan Books is publishing a translation of Emile Rocher's contemporary account of the Panthay Rebellion. Copies should soon appear in Mandarin Books.
Metro Line 1 begins passenger trial period
Posted bySo what buses go to Xiaodong Village? Bus # 67?
Beijing moving to preserve Pu'er tea heritage
Posted byAccording to Emile Rocher, 1870s, Yunnan backpackers mostly carried objects to fragile for mule-back, such as porcelain tea-pots, or in Rocher's case, copper percussion caps for the rifled muskets he was delivering to the Imperial army in Kunming.