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3February 28, 2011
Liar Liar Pants on Fire

Lie of the Day: "We'll never seek economic growth rate and big size at the price of environment," - Wen Jiabao. Thanks for the laugh big guy.
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1February 23, 2011
10,000 Miles Later and One Less Car-less Mongolian Child

We spoke with Abandon the Cube in June before they set off on their journey, and now they’re back and, surprisingly, alive to tell us the answers to the most important questions.
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2February 18, 2011
Meditations on Minorities

Uighurs. Lots of things come to mind when I think about them dudes. Two of the more "serious" or "responsible" or even "ethical" thoughts I have are as follows:
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0February 18, 2011
Calling for an Asian Hollywood Invasion

Lots of supporting roles seem to go to Asian-American actors, and from a personal standpoint I see a lot more diversity in Hollywood now than 10 or 15 years ago. But the Asian lead is still a scarcity in the American film industry.
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9February 17, 2011
Uighurs: The Shocking Truth Revealed!

Why do Chinese people strongly dislike Uighurs? Why does the CCP censor news articles relating to the minority group? Why? Why? Why? All answers revealed in this shocking piece of journalistic mastery!
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8February 11, 2011
Sad Panda, Happy Panda

China days can seriously make you hate living here. They can make you glare at every local person you pass on the sidewalk, cursing them under your breath because you know you just paid 30% more than them for produce from a street vendor. China days can ruin your faith in humanity. And make you a sad panda.
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9February 1, 2011
Viva la Revolución!!

First it's Tunisia, now it's Egypt. Who's next? Is China next? Will our Chinese brothers and sisters follow the Arabs’ route and take to the streets to protest against a long-standing oppressive regime filled with plundering corrupt officials?
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1January 27, 2011
Networking: To the Max!!

Before I moved to Shanghai, I had no concept of what it meant to network. Using friends and acquaintances for personal gain? Business card handing-out? Awkward conversation-having? My God. Why would anyone want to network?
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1January 24, 2011
Better Migrant Workers, Better City

I meant to post this back in November or December, but, you know, Angry Birds. It's a picture from outside the Rockbund Art Museum when I was there for the exhibit ‘By Day, By Night, or Some (Special) Things a Museum Can Do’.
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1January 20, 2011
How to Get Kicked Out of The Beijing Zoo

With the sweat starting to roll down my real head only about 20 minutes in, I then received a knock on my outer cat head. A guard had officially decided that we were disturbing the peace of the zoo, and that we needed to leave.
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1January 19, 2011
Watch? Bag? Sorry, no good DVDs.

It has recently come to my attention that DVD stores in Shanghai are starting to suck, and suck real bad. Last time I went down to my local store, the shelves were 95% empty with the dregs of mediocre TV shows like Two and a Half Men and The Big Bang Theory
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0January 17, 2011
New Year. New Shlaowai. New You.

It’s the new year. Again. When did that happen? Who died and made it okay to not tell me that time was passing by at breakneck speeds and I needed to look up from Angry Birds or I would miss it?
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11August 17, 2010
Sitting at the Horse’s Table

Lately I’ve been grappling with something. I don’t know why it just came to me now, but since it has I’ve been thinking about it a lot and see it is a good example of the internal conflict we have as long-term expats in China.
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