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	<title>Years of Poems and Spirits &#187; reviews</title>
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		<title>Book Reviews &#8211; Perry&#8217;s Shanghai On Strike</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 08:59:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A really wonderful book. As enlightening as E.P. Thompson&#8217;s classic.
I remember Kent G asked us during class &#8211; what is &#8220;class consciousness&#8221;? It was then I suddenly realized, oh, it is not something that is always there!
Perry&#8217;s book really helped me to complete the intellectual journey started with this question. In my mind at least, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Avatar</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 10:45:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finally watched Avatar&#8211;so many people told me so much about it, I figured that if I didn&#8217;t watch it now, I&#8217;d probably lose interest soon. It was good. I have to say the visual effect is less than what I expected but the story is more weighty. Overall, it is great. ZR and I had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>District 9</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 07:42:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t help but to sing praise to the movie District 9. Upon knowing how old the director (Neill Blomkamp) is, I was very impressed. The kid certainly has wisdom beyond his 30 years. Of course, he is from South Africa. Still, being able to distill an almost biblical human sin into a short movie, he&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Movie Nixon/Frost</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 07:14:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year, just before the Election, Frank Rich said in an opinion column, something like, &#8220;it is a shame that GWB was so banal a terrible President, he didn&#8217;t even give us a Richard Nixon to chew over&#8221;. I didn&#8217;t think it was a casual remark at all. I always thought that Nixon is a [...]]]></description>
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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>
		<dc:creator>Forager</dc:creator>
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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>Finished the Vagrants</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 08:15:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just finished reading Li Yiyun&#8217;s Vagrants.  It is a thick book but not that difficult to read. I don&#8217;t know what to think, actually.
In the novel, the best developed characters are two ugly ducklings that nobody wanted (Bashi and Nini). Their romance is as distorted as the age the story is set in. Some other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Praise My Kindle</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:12:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[God gives life and Charles C. gives us Kindle. We received it as a surprise gift and love it from then on.
I was just thinking the other day after struggling with a hardcover book, &#8220;Five thousand years of human civilization later, is this the best reading experience we can come up with?&#8221; Here is a list [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Au revoir, les enfants</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 05:31:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am not a big fun of continental Euorpean movies. Nor are the holocaust ones. But Au revoir, les enfants is an exception. A very moving movie indeed. Unlike many French movies, it is full of outright conflicts and tensions. Yet still has the attention to details that is so French.
In the end, it is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Notes from Recent Reading</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 07:51:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[最近读的几本中文书笔记备录：
1. 《刚鉴易知录》（唐史）：初唐无聊，中唐故事多，晚唐最有意思：极富戏剧性，像武侠小说，爱不释手。问题：为什么潘镇“割据”而不“独立”？什么使中国难以分裂？
2. 《剑桥中国隋唐史》（崔瑞德，费正清，三联）：关于陈寅恪的评价，“陇西-山东”框架，私铸货币和通货膨胀，中央管理货币的尝试
3. 薄一波的《若干重大历史事件的回顾》（人民出版社）：毛泽东的霸道，刚愎自用和小气：十五天从反右到反左。刘少奇的“走狗式”（李斯，范蠡）的下场：桃源经验，“三分天灾，七分人祸”，党内民主制度不健全，西楼会议，七千人大会？ 另：关于毛对知识分子的怀疑和憎恨，见李锐的文章：毛泽东与反右派斗争 大多从毛的原话，原著中解读引证。
4. 《政治儒学》（蒋庆）： 踩在学术和博客的边缘，文章罗嗦冗长 。读上去感觉好像一个面壁的愚儒在振振有词地证明皇帝的新衣确实存在。唯一可取的是第三章，儒学与民主政治，二者平等而不兼容。不可用西学的概念来解构儒学。联想：中国的“政治”和西学的“政治”是一个概念吗？
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