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		<title>A Day in Mumbai</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Feb 2011 17:14:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lao Cai</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, I&#8217;m in Mumbai for a business trip. I&#8217;d been looking forward to this trip because India is unlikely to be a place I&#8217;m going to travel to much on my own, so business trips will be the way I get exposure to the country. I had a memorable trip to Dehli around 1997, also [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=csdblog1.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8014522&amp;post=1294&amp;subd=csdblog1&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Bumbling Barrister &amp; The Weaselly Juror</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 03:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lao Cai</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had jury duty in Hong Kong recently, my first time ever in any country. Quite a fascinating experience, actually. All About Heroin It was a drug trafficking case. Here&#8217;s a quick rundown of the facts: In April last year police raided the defendant&#8217;s home in the upper middle-class Pokfulam district. They discovered in his spare [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=csdblog1.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8014522&amp;post=1082&amp;subd=csdblog1&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dubious About Dubai</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 02:38:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lao Cai</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Miscellaneous]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Burj Khalifa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dubai]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So we&#8217;re in the midst of one of the worst economic crisis in modern history and Dubai launches the glitzy Burj Khalifa, &#8220;the world&#8217;s tallest building&#8221;. Only in Dubai. But then again the emirate never made any sense to me, especially after I visited the place for the first time a couple of years ago [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=csdblog1.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8014522&amp;post=1001&amp;subd=csdblog1&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Karaoke With The Stars &amp; Other Beijing Tales</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 01:38:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lao Cai</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Xiang Shan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I flew up to Beijing in the last week of October to hang out with some friends. Autumn in Beijing is always great &#8212; the weather is perfect and the capital&#8217;s residents are at their happiest. Rock Star Romance I had dinner one night with my Italian friend Annalisa and her lovely family at their [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=csdblog1.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8014522&amp;post=881&amp;subd=csdblog1&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Zen &amp; The Art of Making YouTube Videos</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 23:51:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lao Cai</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday someone forwarded this amusing YouTube video to me: The first time I saw the video, I naturally focused on what the cat was doing. The second time I saw it, though, I was struck by the way the person behind the camera made the video. I&#8217;m guessing he or she is Japanese. Most people [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=csdblog1.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8014522&amp;post=861&amp;subd=csdblog1&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mao, Mozart &amp; Me</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 03:07:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lao Cai</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Music & Arts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Classical Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cultural Revolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[From Mao to Mozart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Isaac Stern]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wang Jian]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Wow, we&#8217;re nearing the 30th anniversary of the release of &#8220;From Mao to Mozart&#8221;, one of my favorite documentary films of all time. The New York Times published a feature article about the anniversary last week, and in October there will be a special concert in Beijing to celebrate the event. I first saw &#8220;From [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=csdblog1.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8014522&amp;post=722&amp;subd=csdblog1&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chang Aifei: Live in Concert</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:15:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lao Cai</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Music & Arts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chinese pop music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mandopop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I was back in China last week, joining my friend Chang Aifei on a trip to Huaian in Jiangsu, where she was performing in a concert with a few other singers. It was cool to have a chance to check out the Chinese pop music scene from an insider&#8217;s point of view. Rockin&#8217; in Huaian [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=csdblog1.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8014522&amp;post=445&amp;subd=csdblog1&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Counterfeit Communism</title>
		<link>http://csdblog1.wordpress.com/2009/06/24/counterfeit-communism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 06:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lao Cai</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chinese Communist Party]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In China these days, Communist Party membership is mostly an opportunistic way to get ahead in life. I was hilariously reminded of this during a trip to Shanghai earlier in the year. I was in a taxi chatting with a mainland Chinese friend. She belongs to the new middle class in China which has benefited [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=csdblog1.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8014522&amp;post=223&amp;subd=csdblog1&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Encounter With a Chinese Pop Diva</title>
		<link>http://csdblog1.wordpress.com/2009/06/07/encounter-with-a-pop-diva/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 10:57:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lao Cai</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Beijing]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mando-pop]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first time I saw Chang Aifei (常艾非), she was walking alone on the vast, empty grounds of an 18th century French chateau, lost in her thoughts. She wore a long, dark dress, looking forlorn as the wind blew through her raven hair. She was the vision of a melancholic beauty, in search of love, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=csdblog1.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8014522&amp;post=28&amp;subd=csdblog1&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Portrait of an Artist as a Young Woman</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 01:45:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lao Cai</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just came back from a short trip to Beijing, a place I used to call my second home. Since saying goodbye to the city in 1994, however, I&#8217;d returned only once, in 2003. My fondest memories of Beijing are the people I&#8217;d met there. Beijing probably has the most diverse collection of talent anywhere [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=csdblog1.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8014522&amp;post=1&amp;subd=csdblog1&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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