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	<title>Years of Poems and Spirits &#187; culture</title>
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		<title>Angels and Demons</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2009 09:02:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Watched A&#038;D last night. It was pretty entertaining (perhaps because I never read the novel). Still, it wasn&#8217;t a movie worth blogging until I saw this piece on WaPo, Angels &#038; Demons &#038; Disclaimers.
While discussing why he didn&#8217;t watch Mel Gibson&#8217;s The Passion of Jesus Christ, the writer, David Waters, mentioned the idea of &#8220;the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>24 City, Jia Zhang-Ke</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 07:55:42 +0000</pubDate>
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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>临睡前的笔记</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2009 08:13:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Forager</dc:creator>
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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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		<title>A Civic Culture Reborn</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 04:38:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Forager</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A letter I wrote to the Professors after reading an article on YanTan:
I was really moved by an article online: http://yantan.org/bbs/thread-87041-1-1.html. I don&#8217;t know why &#8230; just thought there is hope. Basically, the author went to a district in Sichuan after the earthquake and documented the struggle and formation of a new civic society. The article [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Southwestern Death Culture</title>
		<link>http://wuyibing.com/845/the-southwestern-death-culture.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 21:16:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Forager</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Somehow came across the subject of &#8220;湘西赶尸&#8220;. A very elaborate tradition it is! How the profession selects apprentice, the rituals and the mirage of dead man walking, etc. Secular observers suspected it was a guise for smuggling or other &#8220;feudalism leftovers&#8221;. But just reminded me of another set of photographs I saw somewhere about another [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Silence a Journalist</title>
		<link>http://wuyibing.com/794/how-to-silence-a-journalist.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 08:39:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Administrator</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just read the outrageous news, &#8220;Leading Russian Rights Lawyer Is Shot to Death in Moscow&#8221;. The title says it all. What is striking is the nonchalant tone in the piece, as if being murdered in broad daylight is part of daily life for Russian liberals.
True or not, just got me thinking. A new term coined in China last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Random Impressions and Stream of Consciousness in Japan</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 09:10:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Forager</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just back from a trip to Japan. My first ever. Enjoyed it immensely.
It is also a very tiring trip&#8211;not only it was short and compact, but I was left with so many impressions and had so many thoughts, it is now quite an overwhelming task to write them down.
I tried to take notes on Euro [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two Articles in the New Yorker</title>
		<link>http://wuyibing.com/436/two-articles-in-the-new-yorker.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:38:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jon Lee Anderson: Fidel’s Heir
Just after I finished Arendt&#8217;s Origins of Totalitarianism, I came upon Anderson&#8217;s &#8220;extremely short&#8221; essay about Hugo Chávez. Convinced me more of my criticism of Arendt: in pursuit of an answer to the Holocaust, she stretched extreme instances of popular demagogy into &#8220;Totalitarianism&#8221;.
Chávez&#8217;s Venezuela is arguably at a midway point in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>病中杂感</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 01:12:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[为什么政客们亲那么多Baby不会得病，我亲一个就病得摇摇欲坠?!
When one is physically ill what does that do to one&#8217;s mind? I had many hours of sleep but dreaded the dreams. It was the day time stress and anxiety repeated over and again. I was making arguments that at once seemed to make perfect sense and no sense at all. Just like my paper&#8230; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foraging for Favorite Literature Pieces</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 08:05:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a collection of some old favorites and new interpretations:
&#8220;Ah, there you go; &#8216;93! I was expecting that word. A cloud had been forming for the space of fifteen hundred years; at the end of fifteen hundred years it burst. You are putting the thunderbolt on its trial.&#8221;
(满天乌云密布了一千五百年。过了十五个世纪之后，乌云散了，而您却要加罪于雷霆)
&#8212;Chapter X. The Bishop in the Presence of [...]]]></description>
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