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		<title>&#8220;My dad and my mom&#8221; - The record of two lives become one&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 03:07:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In late 2009 I learned about a remarkable story.  It is the story of a couple who lived in Shandong province, told by their son Jian Bo, a renowned photographer, who works at China&#8217;s State Council News Office where he heads the Art Photo Library.   In 1974 he began to record with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A small New Year&#8217;s wish&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 02:46:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If I were a cloud,
I would stop flying high in the sky,
Instead, I would choose to change into rain drops that alight on the world of men.
If you ask me why,
Please look upon the verdant lands of life,
And that would be my answer.
If I were a river,
I would stop rushing toward the ocean,
Instead, I would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The mountains are steep and forbidding&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 08:53:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shan Qiong Shui Jin Yi Wu Lu, Liu An Hua Ming You Yi Cun (山穷水尽已无路，柳暗花明又一村).  Thus goes a Chinese saying:   “The mountains are steep and forbidding, the rivers deep and ferocious, will I ever get out of here?   Suddenly, there are calm willows swaying in the breeze and myriad flowers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Culture crash&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 05:49:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent driving trip of mine to Tibet ended in Yunnan&#8217;s Shangri-la.   From there I returned to Hong Kong by plane.  My flight from Shangri-La to Kunming was scheduled to depart at 8:55am. The driver of the taxi that took me to the airport was a burly Tibetan fellow with a comfortable smile and an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A day lost in Gang Tuo&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 02:26:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Alright, let’s go and find a place for lunch.  But let’s make it a quick one.   We don’t wanna end up way behind in the queue,” I conclude after having considered for thirty minutes or more Jo’s suggestion that a meal would be a good thing by now.  
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We had arrived [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Found in translation&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 12:52:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My friend couldn’t contain his giggles as he sat down to have dinner with me in a Hong Kong restaurant.  “I just bought the funniest of books,” he declared and proceeded to pull it out of his bag.   The book is called “More Chinglish: Speaking in Tongues” and is a collection of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Customer service of a different kind&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:35:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, when I was on my way to a China Mobile shop in Chengdu, I saw an Agricultural Bank of China (ABC) branch that was emblazoned with the lovely green logo that identifies this countryside bank.   As the taxi drove by, my head swivelled around because I have fond memories of ABC. 
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		<title>My wife is three years young today&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 07:17:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We – Olimpia, Luo Sang, Gary, Anne, Lei and I – prepare to leave the Yading Nature Reserve [Where is the Yading Nature Reserve?].   A man approaches Gary&#8217;s car.   Gary rolls down the window.  They talk.   I see Gary shaking his head.  I wonder what the man [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Between a rock and a hard place&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2009 08:18:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In April 2008, Mr. and Mrs. Li’s daughter Xiaojing gave birth to a baby girl, prematurely but without major complications.  Xiaojing’s family is from a rural corner of eastern Sichuan, but in 2007 her parents moved to Dongguan, less than two hours’ drive from glittery Hong Kong.   Dongguan is a large city [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wouldn&#8217;t that be something? (Part II)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2009 05:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Last week I wrote about the first part of journey from northwest Yunnan to Thailand.  Now the story continues.)
After Dali, we make a brief stopover in Kunming on our way further south to the fabled rice terraces of Yuan Yang.   These rice terraces, when in winter and early spring the rice has [...]]]></description>
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