-
Hāilìlùyà
Nuremberg is a better choice than Kunming if you need to indulge your Christmas nostalgia. But if you happen to be in Kunming, why not give it a try? I often bicycle past the apparently generic Protestant church on Peoples’ Avenue West, and when I saw the Christmas decorations go up, I was drawn to […]
-
Magical Valley
There is something inherently voyeuristic in my desire for close encounters with rural Yunnan. Chinese villages are a world apart from Chinese cities, and the old aphorism of being a great place to visit, but I wouldn’t want to live there applies. In the lumpy-bumpy karst mountain region a few hundred kilometers east of Kunming […]