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Recent examples should be seriously encourage us to actPhotovoltaic electricity is also known to growIt is less than 10 of the stock of life says the FFSAFor its part Montpellier is also a new impetus2 billion in 2011 760 million in 2012 and 1No the summer will not any rest for investorsMidCat construction would have to carry a volume of 7It has been a very long time to show themWilliam Shakespeare he wrote his play in 1595Their tax reference income would be less toLive in this world without ever actually enter the nature of people, nor to assimilate into a strange environment shape me a very odd compound and I acquire a mindset that makes me foreign everywhere. Between the France and me rises more and more thick fog to position to the March of time . I became the being that is the far traveler, drowned in a medium which cannot absorb and which is foreign to that which contains more. "Thus speaks in his memoirs, Auguste François, consul of France Yunnan from 1898 to 1903 When Constantine of Slizewicz cited and revived this photographer diplomat, is itself that speaks the young French expatriate volunteer in China. Him, perfectly fluent in the language of the mandarins, is always interrupting a "you speak good Chinese." What country are you . A truth be told, he knows more too: installed there in 2000, after a business school, he has worked since 2002 to Kunning, in the heart of Yunnan, as head of the major stories in the "City Herald", depending on the communiste party local weekly Therefore, journalist, always ready to go in discovery.
But Constantin of Slizewics does not have the ambition of a Bruce Chatwin or a Nicolas Bouvier. It is no more Sylvain Tesson or Alexandre Kauffmann, figures figurehead of the new generation passenger writers. And his sometimes clumsy pen is engaged in any political fight. Then, it must be his story for what it is, a diving extended (and apnea) in the heart of the Middle Kingdom. A great story so effleurerait the capital - he nicely that Beijing killed Beijing - to cross from East to West across the country.
In 2002, Constantin of Slizewicz performs this modern "Anabasis" for free, and spontaneous way with a classmate of adventure, Alexandre, and sidecar, named the "scarab". This is just one of the adventures of this book, which trimbale the reader in the steps of the empire in Yunnan. Little picturesque description to you go or step It is the men and women in the rough lives that discusses the reality of the country. This gallery of portraits of road, the figure of Zhao, the "boss" of the "City Herald", is probably one of the most endearing: "With her hair brush and gominés, his brilliant large polo, small stomach and its footwear, he is like not a doctrinaire of Maoism ascetic". Really not. Must be followed these lads in their night marathons to Kunning. It is the politically correct Beijing and "bling bling" Shanghainese: late at night, it plays, on file in the murky Show Bar see dancers to libido triste And, of course, smoking - the gift of cigarette is a rite of sociability - and it boit A Kunning, as elsewhere, the nights of China nonsense with alcohol, "passage forced to prove his Excellency".
It is a lesson to be learned: doing business in deep China requires a liver of steel. The diplomacy of the "gambei", i.e. of the toast is always a course and you eat much and everything: dog, in soup or in barbecue, but the "XI fan", also mixed with chicken bones crushed sometimes sticky rice porridge with larvae of abeille a specialty of the Wa. The Wa One of the fifty-six "national minorities" recognized by the central Government.
These minorities, Constantin of Slizewics continues to cross, "a different reality of mundane images and propaganda leaflets published by the Chinese Government." Thus, these famous Wa, that he met along the sino-birmane border. Three hundred sixty thousand souls, and a reputation continued into the 1950s cutters and reducers of heads. This passion to head left them everything as the picturesque villages disappeared. Three or four are maintained, for tourists Han, but elsewhere they became "slum where reigns this rancid smell rotten poverty." "Agglo walls have replaced the old Palisades of bamboo, fiber cement plates have replaced the archaic thatched roofs.
These passages are rare critical moments of the book. Do not regret it. Never, it has experienced also about noise, odours, the cold, the moiteurs, contradictions, nights of drunkenness, the suffering and joys of a good réveillée China but still remains out of its cities, unknown to the West.
