...that is collectively owned by the cyclists and that refuse to deliver from restaurants that provide throw away chopsticks, and who will not use elevators.
Man, there's GENIUS on this thread today!
(Confession: I think I ate off paper plates last night at the highly-successful Have a Heart fundraiser. However, I walked home afterwards....but then I bought some bananas on the way home and as I had been too thoughtless to carry my own bag, I accepted the plastic bag into which the hawker put the bananas, and I already have way too many plastic bags in my flat...damn!)
1920s China through the lens of Joseph Rock: Simao
Posted by@Peter: Do you know if the staff will let you photocopy them (at least the ones that are not falling apart)?
1920s China through the lens of Joseph Rock: Simao
Posted byDon't know about possible copyrights or whatever - I'd imagine there'd be no problem today - but it would be really GREAT if your copy of this very important map were available through gokunming - a real public service.
1920s China through the lens of Joseph Rock: Dali
Posted byMy typo: 'shan-shui', not 'sjan-shui'.
1920s China through the lens of Joseph Rock: Dali
Posted byNote the similarity of the next-to-last photo to the type of composition you see in traditional sjan-shui (mountain and water) style of Chinese painting - I'll bet Rock thought of that when he set up the photo.
I don't think it's necessary to be a Western exoticist or orientalist of the old and somewhat insulting 'gosh what a wonderful thing these foreigners have managed to produce' school of thought (a bit similar to the 'wonderful minority cultures' syndrome among Han Chinese) to suggest we compare these interesting and fine photos of Dali to all the commoditized, commercialized tourist crap that has taken over Dali, and many other interesting places in Yunnan, over the past 20 years or so. 'Progress' is always just great, isn't it?
1920s China through the lens of Joseph Rock: Simao
Posted by@Peter: don't understand why you use the word 'prophet', or why Rock is the only Western Yunnan one.