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	<title>Years of Poems and Spirits &#187; China</title>
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		<title>A Letter to an Old Acquaintance</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:25:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Forager</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[censorship]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Guo Liang
I read the following on the New York Times -
Guo Liang, the director of the China Internet Project at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said he thought Google’s accusations were little more than public whining. “Google may use politics as its excuse, which is easy for Westerners to accept, but in essence this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the Sixtieth National Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 06:57:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Forager</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is a day of mixed feelings. On the one hand, China is truly a great country today. On the other, it is not the China I wished it is.
Every great nation in the history can point to a legendary past and say: that is what made us who we are. For the British, it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Thoughts on Wokai</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 08:55:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Forager</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the request of Casey, I am going to post directly to Wokai's blog site. However, I am leaning towards keeping a copy of my posts on this blog.

As of now, Wokai's blog entry doesn't carry a byline. I am not sure why. Not that I care for the credit as much as I want to have my own "brand": I am a volunteer of Wokai and I care about Microfinance in China. Yet I don't represent Wokai.]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts on Xinjiang &#8211; A Letter to a Friend</title>
		<link>http://wuyibing.com/1112/thoughts-on-xinjiang-a-letter-to-a-friend.html</link>
		<comments>http://wuyibing.com/1112/thoughts-on-xinjiang-a-letter-to-a-friend.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:36:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Forager</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[uw-jsis]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I was really disturbed by what happened in Xin Jiang broke out. I thought of two friends (JY and JG) who had connections there but didn't get anything more than what I could found on the Net.

However, what happened there really helped me to put together much of what I have learned in the last several years. Felt like being pounded by revelations  one after another. I miss Joel, so much so that I almost wrote a letter to him just to say Thanks.  His thoughts on belonging-dominance, on social capital, on social-integration all come together suddenly. It is a awe-inspiring feeling.]]></description>
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		<title>Text of Zhao Ziyang&#8217;s Book</title>
		<link>http://wuyibing.com/1094/%e6%94%b9%e9%9d%a9%e6%ad%b7%e7%a8%8b-%e6%94%b9%e9%9d%a9%e5%8e%86%e7%a8%8b-prisoner-of-the-state.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 21:30:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Forager</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[改革歷程，改革历程，prisoner of the state]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Keywords: 改革歷程，改革历程，prisoner of the state, zhao ziyang, 赵紫阳
After some digging, finally got the Chinese version of Zhao Ziyang&#8217;s book. The text only PDF version is here (smaller size, easier to read too), and the book scan is here (not how I would normally do it but this is really an important book).
Very interesting book. Will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Swarm of Fireflies in a Bottle</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 10:09:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Forager</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[the new yorker]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Had a busy first half of June. Trying to keep up with John M&#8217;s work. Started with Marketfish last week. A lot uncertainty for sure: the startup&#8217;s future, my own performance as the data guy. But there is anything that still excites, it is knowledge discovery. So I am looking forward to the challenge.
Notes from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>杨雷</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 10:06:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Forager</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[前一段突然想起在科大时的一个朋友，叫杨雷。他在89年学运后吃了不少苦。虽然有些人受的打击比他要大，但他们都熬过来了。可杨雷却不幸早逝。
杨雷也是科大的，比我高几届。我们认识得很晚。第一次认识是在一个学习小组会上。那时几个积极分子经常聚在一起，谈论时事和新的思想。有一个朋友知道我在读一本美国史（William Manchester: The Glory and the Dream A Narrative History of America)， 就叫我过去“给大家说说”。 
我早听说杨雷是那个小组的发起人之一，见到他时，先头倒是没看出来他是个带头的。整个过程中，他很安静，似乎一直在沉思。直到讨论快结束，要准备以后的活动时，我才感到好像大家的意见都很自然地要经过他。那次我讲得十分的糟糕，越说越没底。我想大家都看出来了。杨雷不仅没怪我，还邀请我继续参加他们的活动。
等学运开始后，我们交往反而少了。我们不在一个校园上，我又经常往北京跑，所以彼此很少见到。只是在北京开枪以后的第二天，我们几个领头的带着大家去合肥钢铁厂组织罢工，轰轰烈烈地折腾了一天。在工厂里游行时，他几乎是个旁观者。我见到他时，他站在路边树荫下。当时，我是full of myself，可杨雷好像还是那么安静。当时的印象是杨雷不是那种举起拳头喊口号的人。
之后的一年是最无聊的：杨雷，龙波和李亚都被抓去上学习班。不知怎么没有我的事。于是我就专心准备出国。我一边考着TOEFL，一边消息传来说不少人受了处分。后来龙波和杨雷都被勒令退学了。当时杨雷还有一年就要毕业了，离开学校，没机会拿到文凭，又没关系出国，他一下子就成了上海上万的待业青年之一了。
我和杨雷谈得最多的一次是我第二次去上海签证的时候。签证批下来了，我知道总算走成了。但不知道为什么要走。1984年是我&#8221;coming to age&#8221;的一年。当时35周年大庆，又是阅兵又是普天同庆，把我搞成一个热血的国家主义者。似乎我活着的目的是”经世治国“。不到五年，我的世界好像倒了一个个儿。我虽然也愤怒，也漫骂，但心里我知道我走错了路。可是为什么错了，怎么是对的，我一点没有谱。好像又回到了那次在学习小组上发言时的感觉，越想越没底。
我本没想见杨雷。但杨雷对我却十分的热情，拉我去他们家坐。好像他那时已经结婚了。可还没有工作，加上身上背着个诺大的政治包袱，要是我担心还来不及。他倒好，和我谈了好久，说了不少事情，只可惜我已经都不记得了。后来从他们家出来，路过一家小酒吧，他拉我进去了。
那时上海的酒吧和街上的小餐馆差不多。里面放满了桌子，铺着桌布，上面再压块玻璃。虽然是大白天，但里面黑得很，照明靠墙上混合在一起的霓虹灯和点亮的广告牌。我们挑了一张桌子坐下来之后，杨雷问我要些什么，说他请客。我竟然答应了。
我记得我点的是”施格兰冰酒露&#8221;，没意识到里面有烈酒。所以一会儿就头晕脑胀。记得好像谈到在来上海以前，我刚在电影院里看了个电影，其中有直升飞机的镜头。我说我当时叫了出来：“这不是运尸体的飞机吗”。我的朋友马上掐住我叫我住嘴。可周围坐得满满的人，没有一个出声。好像我真是在说给我自己听的。
也许酒喝的太多了，我们渐渐地都说不下去了。等从酒吧出来时，竟然仍天光大亮。我们都意识到是分手的时候了，杨雷突然说了一句，“出去吧，这样也好。你在外头见见世面，学些东西，等你回来的时候，好多事情也许会变了。那时正好需要你这样的人。”
我带着这句话离开了中国，带着这希望过起了打工求学的日子。毕业后万幸找到了一个工作。之后又熬啊熬地等到了绿卡。年薪一下涨了一倍。又从一个穷人中的公寓搬到自己家的房子，渐渐地在他乡异地扎下了根。89年，学运，坦克，游行，罢工，都在记忆中淡漠。杨雷的话也渐渐忘了。
过了七八年，有一次下班回家，突然接到龙波从广东打来的电话。告诉我杨雷刚刚去世。我愣了一下，好像一切突然又回到眼前。
20年了。我一直觉得生死之间不过像在悬崖边上往下看：活着的人只要仔细找，总能找到他想找的灵魂。我并没好好找过杨雷，但是20年以来我觉得我有些地方倒是和杨雷无意中越来越像了。我不会再在电影院里叫出声了，更不会去组织罢工了。
前一段，当我想起杨雷的时候，我曾经在Google，Baidu上猛搜索了一把，想找出点蛛丝马迹来证明他的存在。可是一点线索也没找到。这里写下几笔，替他在历史上留个存根。龙波报丧的时候提到杨雷夫妇有一个孩子。也许有一天他的孩子想起父亲，但愿他能找到这篇博客。
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		<title>24 City, Jia Zhang-Ke</title>
		<link>http://wuyibing.com/1004/24-cit-jia-zhang-ke.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 07:55:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Forager</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[reviews]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Watched the 24 Cities with the Boston couple.
Never want to watch Jia&#8217;s movie sitting in a confined seat again. The movie was so repetitive, raw and edgy that when I can&#8217;t move around, I felt a dread of claustrophobia.
The movie tells close to a dozen personal stories, some warm, some sad, some funny and some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are They Ghouls?</title>
		<link>http://wuyibing.com/983/are-they-ghouls.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 02:13:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Forager</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Try not to write too much in one day &#8230; very distracting. But this piece hit me pretty hard: In China, Quake Tourism Becoming Big Business
In short, parts of the quake area have become theme parks of sorts for laser tag games, water parks (the quake-dammed lakes), survivor museums, and&#8211;perhaps the most egregious&#8211;an earthquake simulation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>临睡前的笔记</title>
		<link>http://wuyibing.com/958/%e4%b8%b4%e7%9d%a1%e5%89%8d%e7%9a%84%e7%ac%94%e8%ae%b0.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2009 08:13:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Forager</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[epistemology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[to be refined]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[于建嵘：县政改革请自改变“异地为官”始
keywords：改流为土，异地为官，offset the effect of election,
官员更容易倾向于对上负责而不是对下负责, 在历史上,外地来的“官”常常需要用自己的私人班子———各种“师爷”来控制本乡本土的“吏”。
这些官员每个星期都要在家与单位两边跑,县乡政府在食宿、交通工具、娱乐设施等方面进行的巨大投资,已使某些地方的行政成本大量增加
“省直管县”改革并没有引起太大的关注就已经取得了较大进展 (查：vs. 市管县)
杨恒均：全民医保会不会让我们“国破人亡”？
keywords: 中国文化惹祸,
十五年前，帮一位香港朋友在国内联系外科医生动脑部肿瘤的手术，交了昂贵的费用后，医生暗示手术时还要送红包，最后那位香港朋友哆哆嗦嗦地送出了一万元的大红包，手术很成功啊。（有黑色幽默，可入当代《世说新语》）
不是这医保计划不好，而是我突然想，这医保说得比唱的还好听，从长远来看，几乎可以和西方国家如澳洲相媲美。可问题是，我们有适应这种从外面引进的全面医保的“文化”和“制度”吗？（正在跟踪医保改革，报大希望，可能是nation质变的开始。但这的确是盆（应有）的凉水）
我们一边和国际接轨，一边拼命把人家先进的东西搬进来（人权啊，劳动合同法啊，全民医保啊，教师待遇啊等等），一边却在那里拼命抵触支撑这些东西的价值观。（说的很有意思，又回到了“体用”之争。可引伸到法律，法制的软弱表现）
中国文化惹祸：A new Chinese immigrant in Australia wrote a letter to his son&#8217;s teacher, with regard to the pending reference for college entrance. Together with the letter, he stuffed A$2,500 in the envelope. When he was prosecuted for bribing a public servant, his defense was, &#8220;that is how [...]]]></description>
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