Tag Archives: Kunming
My first encounter with Communist China: And I’d thought Wal-Mart in America was cheap!
Dispatch #2 from Kunming, China Tue 3/19/02 8:46 AM In this Chinese city of 3.3 million, there are few outward signs of communism. On the contrary, Kunming is a grimy, bustling semi-metropolis teeming with commerce. It has more in common with what I expected to find, and did find, in Hong Kong than with what [...]
Macau confidential: “Happy! Happy! Happy! Haw! Haw! Haw!”
Dispatch from Kunming, China Sun 3/17/02 6:25 AM Dear Friends, We’re now in Kunming, capital of the Yunann province of the People’s Republic of China. We’ll be here only long enough to arrange permission and transportation for the Burma road, then we’ll head out. In the meantime, we’re enjoying spending $12 USD per night for [...]
Heat Treatment ’02: Revisiting the travel writing that started it all
The famous “Heat Treatment ’02″ dispatches.
Jeremy Hildreth



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