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	<description>It's going to be cold, it's going to be gray, and it's going to last for the rest of your life</description>
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		<title>A Return to Grace (and a New Format)</title>
		<link>http://www.fcproductions.net/chinalbeit/2010/03/19/a-return-to-grace-and-a-new-format/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 05:26:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chinalbeit</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal Update]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dalian]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, I am back.   Not that there was much here to begin with.  Nevertheless, I&#8217;ve decided to continue writing this blog, though the format is going to be different from before.  It&#8217;s not going to focus exclusively on China, because to be honest I don&#8217;t really have that much to write about China.  I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Hate Xi&#8217;an</title>
		<link>http://www.fcproductions.net/chinalbeit/2009/07/15/i-hate-xian/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 07:58:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chinalbeit</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ranting and Raving]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mugging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[taxis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Terracotta Warriors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Xi'an]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For the most part I've been pretty lucky in China...well, except for getting deported, requiring 25 stitches in my face thanks to Chinese hospitality, nearly getting my juggular cut by a crazed Chinese female.  OK, actually, I haven't really been that lucky at all.  I'd still take it over my life back in the States, which though it was quite a bit safer and saner bored me into addictions with online video games and all-night raiding parties.  Never again, I say.  My wonderful trip to the center of Chinese civilization in September of 2008 certainly takes the cake for run bad, however, which is saying something considering its competition.]]></description>
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		<title>How I Got Deported from China (Classic Post)</title>
		<link>http://www.fcproductions.net/chinalbeit/2009/07/10/how-i-got-deported-from-china-classic-post/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 04:01:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chinalbeit</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Classic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bribery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bureaucracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Classic Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deported]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, I suppose that the title sounds a little more exciting than the actual story. But it's still true. Yes, I was kicked out of China. I must say that this experience has showed me just how much beauracratic hell the millions of immigrants, workers, and exchange students have to go through in my own country everyday. I am comparatively lucky, I suppose. Have you ever heard of a Chinese person overstaying his VISA in America? Of course you haven't, and I'm sure his family never heard either.]]></description>
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		<title>The Newest Counterfeit Craze &#8211; Buildings</title>
		<link>http://www.fcproductions.net/chinalbeit/2009/06/30/the-newest-counterfeit-craze-buildings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:24:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chinalbeit</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ranting and Raving]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Building collapse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Counterfeit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[KTV business meeting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As you may or may not have heard, an apartment building (luckily still unoccupied and under construction) in the compound "Lotus Riverside" in Shanghai's Minhang district fell over in one big piece on Saturday.  How does this happen?  Aren't there inspectors to prevent this kind of thing?  Well, it just so happens that I used to date an interpreter, and one of her jobs was actually negotiating between foreign real estate buyers and a State-owned property development firm.]]></description>
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		<title>Four Simple Things I&#8217;ve Learned to Enjoy in China</title>
		<link>http://www.fcproductions.net/chinalbeit/2009/06/23/four-things-ive-learned-to-enjoy-in-china/</link>
		<comments>http://www.fcproductions.net/chinalbeit/2009/06/23/four-things-ive-learned-to-enjoy-in-china/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 04:16:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chinalbeit</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Happy happy ^.^]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bicycle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chinese food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eating out]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lifestyle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public transportation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Inspired by this great blog post at Sinosplice "10 Vegetables China Taught Me to Love", I thought I would take the opportunity to reflect on some the daily activities I do here that I never would have considered doing back home in America, or that I had to do but hated. ]]></description>
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		<title>Skewed Birthrates Even in America</title>
		<link>http://www.fcproductions.net/chinalbeit/2009/06/15/skewed-birthrates-even-in-america/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 09:16:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chinalbeit</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Birth rates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Male/female ratio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Overseas Chinese]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Surplus males]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wife stealing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I've been fascinated for some time now with the massively skewed birthrates here in China - I wrote up this article about a month ago, but most of the info in it is still relevant.]]></description>
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		<title>Red Propaganda Banners</title>
		<link>http://www.fcproductions.net/chinalbeit/2009/06/11/red-propaganda-banners/</link>
		<comments>http://www.fcproductions.net/chinalbeit/2009/06/11/red-propaganda-banners/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 08:57:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chinalbeit</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Banners]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Propaganda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Signs]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.fcproductions.net/chinalbeit/?p=34</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Everywhere you guy in China, you see these red banners with white or yellow characters strewn all over the place.  In neighborhoods, parks, over roads, on walls, in shopping centers&#8230;you get the point.  These signs are truly ubiquitous.   They serve many uses.  Some of them are simply advertisements, like the one below advertising a film [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Charlie Cole &#8211; Tank Man Photographer</title>
		<link>http://www.fcproductions.net/chinalbeit/2009/06/08/charlie-cole-tank-man-photographer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.fcproductions.net/chinalbeit/2009/06/08/charlie-cole-tank-man-photographer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 02:47:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chinalbeit</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charlie Cole]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Photography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Tank Man]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tiananmen]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last post on this topic - I swear.  I've been getting a few questions about it though, so I'd like to address them.  What happened to the Tank Man?  Who took the picture?  The short answer is: nobody knows what happened to him or where he is now, whether he is even alive or not, and the man who took the picture is a guy named Charlie Cole.  Below is an account of his tale of the picture from The New York Times:]]></description>
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		<title>The Day that Shall not be Named</title>
		<link>http://www.fcproductions.net/chinalbeit/2009/06/07/the-day-that-shall-not-be-named/</link>
		<comments>http://www.fcproductions.net/chinalbeit/2009/06/07/the-day-that-shall-not-be-named/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 11:46:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chinalbeit</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[1989]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nationalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Protest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[T-land]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tiananmen]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Now that the day that shall not be named has come and passed, the time is upon us to reflect just what it means, both for Chinese at home and abroad, and for those foreign devils of us both living in China and those of us who have never been (Wing Wang&#8217;s Super Deluxe Chinese [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Riding a Motorcycle in Asia (Classic Post)</title>
		<link>http://www.fcproductions.net/chinalbeit/2009/06/06/riding-a-motorcycle-in-asia-classic-post/</link>
		<comments>http://www.fcproductions.net/chinalbeit/2009/06/06/riding-a-motorcycle-in-asia-classic-post/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 14:56:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chinalbeit</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Classic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chengde]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Wall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[motorcycle]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is a blog entry that I wrote back in 2006 about a motorcycle trip I took in Northern China.  Enjoy...

Part 1: Mental and Physical Preparations

Ever since a young age, as early as I can remember really, I have been obsessed with traveling. I don't mistakenly use the word obsessed either. I did not just like to travel, I was totally overwhelmed and fascinated by it. Every summer my mother and I would make the drive to Minnesota to see our family. I would bring a large, spiraled notebook with me on these excursions to draw all of the road signs I saw on I-94. I suppose that to my young mind, the fact that they could somehow accurately determine from any point in the endless sea of grass, cows, and corn of Wisconsin how far Minneapolis was and slap the number on a big, green sign. Minneapolis: 274 miles away. Did some guy actually measure that out? Honestly, I still don't know exactly how they do it and I don't really care either. Of course, at the age of seven I barely had any concept of what exactly a mile was, but I definitely saw something in those signs beyond a giant slab of green metal propped up with lots of white words and colorful images on them, and I don't think it was natural.]]></description>
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