re: #217 wheat-doggha — oo bird outside my window

Even we lizards in China have to go to work once in a while. But I am back from teaching.

To answer your questions, jah, I live in western Hunan, which is well north of Guangzhou.

There have been several knife attacks in railway stations this year. A couple of years ago, it was knife attacks at schools. There seems to be a trend with copycat crimes here. The school incidents were by solo attackers, generally by frustrated, angry or mentally disturbed men. The railway attacks seem to be by Uyghur separatists. At least the attack in Kunming, Yunnan province, several weeks ago was. The Beijing government is trying to suppress Uyghur unrest in Xinjiang province, and the Uyghurs in other parts of China are fighting back. Or so the official word goes.

I wouldn’t say they are becoming especially common, any more than school shootings in America are common. I do tend to stay more alert in railway stations now, even in my sleepy “little” city of 300,000.

Thanks! Hmmm. Hunan cuisine. : )