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	<title>Years of Poems and Spirits &#187; state-society</title>
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		<title>What I Have Missed</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:15:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day on the DR show, someone asked Pei Minxin about Internet, civil society and democracy in China. Pei&#8217;s answer is very interesting: Yes, Internet does forge a virtual civil society but No, it doesn&#8217;t mean more democracy.
In the State-Society literature, civil society is always linked to democracy. But I do agree with Pei [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Supreme Empathizer and Karl Polanyi</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 05:53:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Randomly scanned Politico and found this discussion very engaging: what does Obama mean when he said he&#8217;d like the next SCOTUS Justice to have &#8220;empathy&#8221;?
I was pretty moved when I first heard the report. As a Constitutional Scholar, Obama didn&#8217;t get carried away by the cherished detachment of his profession. Instead, his statement reveals a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wedding, EU and East Washington</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 06:06:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Went to Max and Stephanie&#8217;s wedding in Quincy, WA.
Here is what I said on my album log:
Two beautiful people I know got married. Max and Stephanie finally tied the knot on 2008.9.13. It was a lovely day, the ceremony was held in a romantic setting&#8211;in a vineyard overlooking the Columbia. Seeing the two being together [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Long Discussion on Tibet</title>
		<link>http://wuyibing.com/518/a-long-discussion-on-tibet.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 20:32:13 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[epistemology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Denis is kind enough to engage me on an earlier post. It took me days to write replies. Nevertheless, I am pretty happy I was able to wrap my arm around this issue. 
I don&#8217;t have too many things I can call &#8220;labor of love&#8221;. This is certainly one of those. After writing the last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Decentralized Authoritarian Regime?</title>
		<link>http://wuyibing.com/452/a-decentralized-authoritarian-regime.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:39:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Forager</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[君子不党 party decentralization authoritarian]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Colin said something rather interesting yesterday: it is OK to have an unitary administrative structure and an authoritarian rule, or a decentralized structure and democracy. But China seems to have the wrong combination: a decentralized structure and an authoritarian rule. And this is a fiefdom pattern.
Thoughts: that echoes well with Pei Minxin&#8217;s &#8220;Trapped Transition&#8221;. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>瓮安事件,续</title>
		<link>http://wuyibing.com/446/wengan-riot-continued.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:49:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Forager</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[china 瓮安 海选 election politics civil-society]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[本不想再动笔,但&#8221;树欲静而风不止&#8221;. 翁安事件后, 离发生地不远的贵阳市在其属下的5个区县展开&#8221;海选&#8221;.
贵阳“海选”县委书记 瓮安事件成“命题焦点”:
&#8220;&#8230; 贵阳市日前召开公推竞岗动员大会，决定对花溪区、修文县等出缺的4个区、县党委书记职位，采取公推竞岗的方式择优选拔。消息传出后，即刻在全国引起强烈反响。中央电视台新闻频道也罕有地在昨日对竞岗现场在重要时段做了直播。值得注意的是，在本次竞聘答辩中，贵州瓮安“6·28”事件成为“命题焦点”&#8230; 贵阳“海选”区、县党委书记消息传出后，即刻在全国引起强烈反响。在百度、google等搜索，其相关网页均分别达到千个以上，人民网、新华网等国内知名网站和媒体也纷纷对该消息进行了转载或报道，引发热议。&#8221;
香港明报的标题是&#8221;翁安海选以息民愤&#8221;. Although the title was inaccurate (Weng An is not part of the Gui Yang municipality), the connection may not be far off. But that is just fascinating!
1. China has had few (none notable enough that I read) semi-free elections (i.e. direct vote and open candidacy) beyond village level. That is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>History Lesson</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:06:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Forager</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently have heard couple of people implying current Chinese leadership don&#8217;t know how the country was run prior to 1949. R. Bin Wong and couple of professors mentioned that during a talk and just read similiar sentiment in Perry and Goldman&#8217;s Grassroots Political Reform &#8230; book.
Does that mean there is lack of serious study on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Liquidity, Credit, Trust, Market Efficiency and State-Society</title>
		<link>http://wuyibing.com/394/liquidity-credit-trust-market-efficiency-and-state-society.html</link>
		<comments>http://wuyibing.com/394/liquidity-credit-trust-market-efficiency-and-state-society.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2008 07:30:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Forager</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hypothesis:
1. If, in the long run, an economy features a liquid financial market, it is likely the economy is efficient.
(Liquidity: index of expected profitability by market participants; Efficiency: rate of utilization of resources and factors)
2. This is so because in general people tend to trust other participants (even at arms length) so there is not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Few Observations of the Presidential Campaign</title>
		<link>http://wuyibing.com/390/a-few-observations-of-the-presidential-campaign.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 04:45:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Forager</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NYT used the title &#8220;The Show of Emotion Heard ’Round the Presidential Campaign World&#8221; to describe Hillary&#8217;s near-breakdown a couple of days ago. Now that Hillary just won N.H., even her campaign manager acknowledges that a little &#8220;humanization&#8221; helped a lot.
Thoughts:
1. The reason many people don&#8217;t like Hillary is because she made herself non-connectable. People [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can China Reform Itself?</title>
		<link>http://wuyibing.com/336/can-china-reform-itself.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2007 01:03:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Forager</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a title of a NYT article. The author says, 
&#8220;The answer, say people who have studied the country’s regulatory system, is a cautious yes. &#8221;
Not mine. My prediction is that any &#8220;reform&#8221; in food/drug safety, if it ever materialize, will likely come at the expense of the rural poor. In other words, the [...]]]></description>
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