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	<title>China Hope Live</title>
	
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		<title>Taking a “hard sleeper” train in China</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:01:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[China: life & times]]></category>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Over Spring Festival my parents and I took a &#8220;hard sleeper&#8221; (硬卧) train for the first time.  After all the stories I&#8217;d heard I was expecting the worst, especially since it was 春运，the...<br/>
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		<title>China’s earliest Great Wall ruins found (photos)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:57:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joel</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[China&#8217;s earliest Great Wall ruins have been found in Henan province, dating to the Spring and Autumn Period (770 BC to 476 BC).  See here and here for some photos.

&#169;2010 China Hope Live....<br/>
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		<title>被</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:57:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chinese take-out]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Pronounced: bèi
Meaning: [indicates passive clause -- examples]
Also means: 被 was chosen as the most popular online character for 2009.  It became a satirical joke, often dark, expressing the way...<br/>
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		<title>Diary of a Worm — in Chinese! (an English / 汉字 / pīnyīn online read-along)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:08:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joel</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[A friend bought our daughter 蚯蚓的日记, the Chinese translation of Diary of a Worm, as a Christmas gift.  It&#8217;s actually pretty funny &#8211; I think it won some awards or something &#8211; and so...<br/>
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		<title>China’s zombie growth</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:17:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joel</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[If you stop to take a second look, it&#8217;s quite obvious that much of Tianjin&#8217;s glittering new (and expensive) apartment and office complexes are empty.  Yet the building continues.  This is...<br/>
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		<title>The contents of the greatest tomb in archeological history</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:47:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joel</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[From What&#8217;s Inside Qin Shi Huang&#8217;s Tomb?
&#8220;Qin Shi Huang &#8230; ruled the largest unified kingdom the Far East had ever witnessed to that date – the very basis of Imperial China. In...<br/>
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