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Learning Bai

Learning Bai
Bai 白族话 is the language spoken by the Bai people 白族 in the Dali area. While Chinese has become the lingua franca, Bai is still actively spoken by many, particularly older people, but it does not have a native written form and comes in many dialects. Here we list the available resources for learning this difficult language.



A day of honours for village elders eighty years and over.


Jim Goodman: Children of the Jade Dragon: the Naxi of Lijiang and their mountain neighbours the Yi

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In the first half of the 1990s Lijiang had barely made its appearance on the Chinese tourism stage, even less so the then remote mountains of Ningland and Lugu Lake. Jim Goodman's account of the Naxi and the Yi draws back to a time where not everything was staged for mass tourism: an account of a lost world.


A number of Chinese historic texts covering life and politics in Yunnan have survived over the centuries. I have translated a few of them.

Jim Goodman: Children of the Jade Dragon: the Naxi of Lijiang and their mountain neighbours the Yi

Cover Image
In the first half of the 1990s Lijiang had barely made its appearance on the Chinese tourism stage, even less so the then remote mountains of Ningland and Lugu Lake. Jim Goodman's account of the Naxi and the Yi draws back to a time where not everything was staged for mass tourism: an account of a lost world.


A specific theatre performance style in Dali.



Yunnan's only Shui-Township with stunning karst scenery.

Markets this Tuesday

Kunming 昆明
Jijie 鸡街乡
Tuanjie 团结

Dali 大理
Fuheng 富恒
Junhua 均化
Duomei 朵美
Zhongsuo 中所
Fengyu 风羽
Liandong 炼洞
Yongping 永平县
Guanping 关平
Liuhe 六合
Baofeng 宝丰乡
Heqing 鹤庆县
Binju 宾居
Madeng 马镫
Shuijing 水井
Deju 德苴乡
Liuchang 刘厂镇
Xinjie 新街镇
Mizhi 密祉镇
果城村

Honghe 红河
Mingjiu 鸣鹫镇
Wantang 湾塘乡
Caoba 草坝镇
Shalatuo 沙拉托
Dayangjie 大羊街
Zhemi 者米拉祜族乡
Panzihua 攀枝花
Tongchang 铜厂

Wenshan 文山
Babu 八布乡
Tiechang 铁厂镇
Jiayi 稼依镇
Zhuanjiao 篆角乡
Funing 富宁县
Mulun 睦伦乡
Jiumo 旧莫乡

Chuxiong 楚雄
Gaoqiao 高桥镇
Dalongkou 大龙口乡
Mixing 弥兴镇

Baoshan 保山市
Xinzhai 新寨
Hehua 荷花傣族佤族乡

Lincang 临沧
Mengding 孟定
Fengqing 凤庆县
Wumulong 乌木龙乡
Nanmei 南美拉祜族乡
Banhong 班洪乡

Qujing 曲靖市
Baiwu 白雾
Daqiao 大桥乡
Leye 乐业镇
Malu 马路乡
Yema 野马林场
Zhehai 者海镇
Zhichang 纸厂乡

Zhaotong 昭通
Shuanghe 双河

Yuxi 玉溪
Chahe 岔河
Mosha 漠沙镇
Dalongtan 大龙潭

Nujiang 怒江
Gudeng 古登
Bingzhongluo 丙中洛
Lishadi 利沙底乡

Puer 普洱
Nuofu 糯福
Dashan 大山乡
Mengma 孟马镇
Fubang 富邦乡
Mujia 木戛乡
Ankang 安康佤族乡
Wendong 文东佤族乡
Wenggake 翁嘎科镇

Diqing 迪庆
Zhonglu 中路