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		<title>Return to the Peach Blossom Spring (Chapter 2)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:39:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Jin passed through the long passage, he noticed that he could not see light from the village behind him when he turned his head back to look. A current seemed to propel his boat quickly through the tunnel, and he shot out the other side with a splash, finding himself in the ocean, with a rocky shore on one side and the wide, wide ocean to the other.]]></description>
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		<title>Rediscovering a Forgotten Beauty</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 06:13:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In these days of increasing communication between our two perspectives, and the enormous social implications of these exchanges, music has become the most important ambassador between our cultures. Music holds the keys to the most effective cultural exchange and mutual understanding, since it truly is the universal language. It can help us to overcome our bias and dislike for one another, and replace them with feelings of beauty and appreciation readily available through the experience of listening. Understanding music's functions within both cultures, its background philosophy, its theory, and its meaning as a representative outside of its native culture, has become an essential area of cross-cultural study for musicians and language learners on both sides of the Pacific.]]></description>
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		<title>The Cult of Prosperity</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 04:23:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Kehler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wandered into a Buddhist Temple in the famous water town Zhujiajiao in the Qingpu district of Shanghai municipality. People were charged admission to the main temple grounds, a fee of 10Y, but in the annex worshippers got a freebe. Before paying the fee, one could kneel on a padded bench before a glass-encased Laughing Buddha (Maitreya Buddha) covered in gold paint, with a mischievous-looking Haibao peeking around the corner of the case. The little blue mascot for the Shanghai World Expo and the golden Buddha are emblems of the same aspiration among the Chinese: conspicuous wealth and a global showcase of modernization.]]></description>
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		<title>The Lifecycle of the Village</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 02:24:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Chinese Social Contract was an unchanging way of life for almost three thousand years. While many things have changed in the last one hundred years, the cultural mentality that this lifestyle created cannot be easily unlearned, and informs almost everything that the Chinese person does. ]]></description>
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		<title>Mahjong</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 02:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the past, the peasants looked to the fate of the fortune-inscribed stick to communicate the will of Buddha; now, the Chinese businessman looks to another inscribed stick to divine the sacred will of the Party. It is the classic scene from the Joy Luck Club; white tiles, clicking and clacking together, as the women gossip about their families, cementing the bonds of a lifetime friendship that would tie the fates of generations together. This ritual has replaced the similar ritual that used to obsess the more religious generations of China – the fortune telling joss sticks and the mysterious predictions of the Book of Changes. No one believes in these superstitions anymore, but they certainly believe in the use and necessity of playing Mahjong with the leaders!]]></description>
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		<title>What the Chinese Want</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 01:03:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What do the Chinese people want out of life? Many have tried to determine this, but no pattern has immediately appeared from the mass of contemporary literature that clamors to represent the true Chinese vision of life...]]></description>
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		<title>Return to the Peach Blossom Spring</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 04:53:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Story to Reflect the Zeitgeist of Contemporary China ]]></description>
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		<title>Propagating the Mandate</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 16:43:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Inspired by the stories of the founding of China in the Zhou Dynasty, the people of peaceful dynasties set themselves to the serious work of imitating King Wen’s lifestyle in the minutest detail. Zhou Wen’s reproductive prowess was legendary, fathering 100 sons in his long lifetime, and long after the Chinese forgot to worship him as an emperor, they continued to venerate him as the “God of Sons” or “Bed God”. The Chinese were inspired by the idea of the “Round Family” that Wen presented in the Book of Changes, and aspired through his lifestyle and theory of life to the ideal of the “Big House” and the “Full Gate”, where the maxim “the more the merrier” was literally the only rule. ]]></description>
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		<title>The Collapse of the Village Ethic</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 09:17:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The cultural paradigm of a villager exists in every culture, creating a kind of universal archetype that fuels California shopping malls with courtyards and fortune five companies with “mixing areas for the open exchange of ideas”. Man does not like to be alone, and his best work is often accomplished communally. This does not begin to explain, however, the Chinese idea of the “Community Conscience”, which is so vital to the understanding of the concept of face, and is a phenomenon unique to the Chinese cultural evolution.]]></description>
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		<title>From “Zhong” to “Hua” and Back</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 16:02:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A look into the meaning of the Chinese concept of centrality and the cultural connotations of China's rise.]]></description>
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