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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>Shades of Gray</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 07:34:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few years ago, I remember looking on in anticipation as a batch of paintings from several North Korean “National Treasures” artists, slowly slid from their protective coverings to form a small pyramid of scrolls on a white sheet spread out on my apartment floor. My best friend from college, Mike, art dealer and media producer in China, brought them back to the US, partly as a gesture of good will and partly to show the American art community the unexpected serendipity of having a North Korean communicate over the gulf of ideology and politics that separates our two nations through the flimsy elements of water, soot, and rice paper. I don’t know what I was expecting, but as scroll after scroll was unfurled before me, the swirls of color and bold brush strokes seemed to catch me off balance and lodge in my mind’s eye in a profoundly simple expression of joy. A kind of joy unexpected from a land associated in the media with terror, famine, and deprivation. I had not expected to be moved by art from the most narrowly defined ideological genres in existence… instead I was overwhelmed.]]></description>
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		<title>The Leaping Carp Becomes a Dragon</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 01:22:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The threat of Asian carp in middle America provides great insights into the US's dealings with China]]></description>
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		<title>Living on Air</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 02:18:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How the Chinese Ideal of Virtue Transmits to an Ethereal View of Business... as demonstrated by Confucius' orchids]]></description>
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		<title>The Philosophy of Chinese Negotiation: Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 02:45:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Playing the Game - Understanding How It's Done

With an awesome reputation for getting a deal, the Chinese are globally acknowledged masters of negotiation. As our first article explained, much of their talent lies in identifying the other party’s values and priorities, and then using those same priorities to control the agenda. At a philosophic and political level, this means China effectively takes the language and values of Western postmodernism, and uses them to its advantage. At an individual level, a Chinese negotiator will identify something that the foreigner wants, and then use it, as it were, “against him.” This is how it's done.

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		<title>Here, Kitty-kitty</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 03:55:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the midst of rumors of a closing China, expats should learn how even hated influences can be tolerated in the Chinese quest for riches]]></description>
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