Tag Archives: Yunnan

Photos of northern Yunnan

Photos of Yunnan by Danwei contributor Jonah M. Kessel, a Beijing based freelance visual journalist working with the New York Times. See his web site here, follow him on Twitter here or keep up with his strange travel schedule at his blog. I spend a lot of … Continue reading

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17 young people disappear in Yunnan, police fear a serial killer

The Chonqing Economic Times is a newspaper under the Chongqing Daily Press Group with a circulation of around 630,000 copies per day. Today the front page announces a new round of economic stimuli to promote stable growth in China. According to the … Continue reading

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Scenes from the tobacco harvest: Why China can’t quit smoking

Gejiu is a city of 135,000 people that lies 280 kilometers southeast of Kunming, the capital of Yunnan Province, and several hours north of China’s border with Vietnam. Sibling mountains cradle Gejiu in a narrow valley, made even smaller by … Continue reading

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Harvest Season: Q&A with novelist Chris Taylor

Chris Taylor is the author of Harvest Season, his debut novel set in southwestern China and published earlier this year by Earnshaw Books. He recently answered Danwei’s questions about how he came to write his first work of fiction.

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Mudslide in Yunnan; Beijing issues local advisory

A landslide in Puladi (普拉底), Yunnan Province, kills one and leaves 90 missing. Landslides are likely in Beijing’s outer districts for the next three days. Natural disasters are likely in southwest China for the next several years.

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A clear water pool turns muddy in Yunnan

Kunming’s Heilongtan Park’s clear water pool changed to a muddy color overnight. The management of the park claimed that the park had never gone muddy in March before.

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New developments in the Kunming prostitution case

Wu Hongfei writes with an update on the Yunnan prostitution case.

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Hydropower and Green Beat’s new style

Hydropower on the Nu River: A new rather serious sounding episode of online video series Green Beat, without the home-made rapping and Green Brothers shtick.

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The body in the lake

An extract from a novel by old China hand Chris Taylor.

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2 dead, 14 injured in bus explosions in Kunming

Two bus explosions in Kunming leave 2 people dead and 14 injured.

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