Remember how I complained about the expensive textbooks at UBC? I was set back by about S$400+ (even after returning most books after photocopying them) on material for 5 classes.
Here, books for 9 classes are 100RMB (S$20). Of course, most of the photocopying has already been done by the teachers, complete with book covers.
I haven’t bought my Sociology text, but it’s included in the total cost of textbooks I quoted above. There are two classes I find no point in getting texts, but they won’t add more than 50RMB to the total cost. And these aren’t pirated books (remember that pirated books here are as rampant as pirated DVDs).
Okay, so this is one of the pros.
