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		<title>Kosher Chinese</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 21:28:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I held the ball and took a deep breath. The trip to the game had included a teammate crapping in a bag; my cheering section included a girl from a tiny village forced to go to work at age twelve; &#8230; <a href="https://returninghomefromexile.wordpress.com/2011/07/06/kosherchinese/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Chinese Poseur in Tibet: Harper&#8217;s Bazaar Indonesia&#8217;s &#8220;Seven Days in Tibet&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 04:45:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Click for photos from the spread. I don&#8217;t know how I feel about Harper&#8217;s Bazaar Indonesia&#8217;s spread with Zhang Fan, which were photographed in Tibet. The shots themselves are gorgeous. Zhang Fan is gorgeous. Tibet is gorgeous. The aspects of &#8230; <a href="https://returninghomefromexile.wordpress.com/2010/12/08/a-chinese-poseur-in-tibet-harpers-bazaar-indonesias-seven-days-in-tibet/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Emerging Identity</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 23:46:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Karthuk&#8217;s Big Trip</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Nov 2010 08:52:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[One of the things my students asked me to do was write some stories in English for them to read. The stories I was finding in the beginner English books borrowed from the school&#8217;s library had already been taught to &#8230; <a href="https://returninghomefromexile.wordpress.com/2010/11/25/karthuks-big-trip/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Happy Birthday and Long Live His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 05:02:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In the land encircled by snow mountainsYou are the source of all happiness and good;All-powerful Chenrezig, Tenzin Gyatso,Please remain until samsara ends. Read about the first time I saw HHDL. The second. And the third, a private audience. May your &#8230; <a href="https://returninghomefromexile.wordpress.com/2010/07/06/happy-birthday-and-long-live-his-holiness-the-xiv-dalai-lama/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>&#8220;Revenge&#8221; by Taha Muhammad Ali</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 07:13:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A while back, I won a biography of the contemporary Palestinian poet Taha Muhammad Ali, called My  Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet&#8217;s Life in the Palestinian Century, by Adina Hoffman. I haven&#8217;t read it yet, as its &#8230; <a href="https://returninghomefromexile.wordpress.com/2010/06/09/revenge-by-taha-muhammad-ali/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Rooftop Rebellion (and other photos)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 23:32:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Just to let everyone know, I&#8217;ve uploaded a number of new photos to my redbubble account, from my pilgrimage to Tso Pema as well as the march on March 10th. You can see them HERE.]]></description>
		
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		<title>His Holiness on NBC Today Show</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 03:05:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Watch His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama&#8217;s interview on NBC&#8217;s Today show HERE. Or watch the staff greeting him HERE.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Sky Train: Tibetan Women on the Edge of History</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 02:33:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Women are never afraid. No matter what the Chinese do. Women do what the Chinese don&#8217;t want them to do, like chant and shout slogans. In prison, the guards could punish us, they could beat us, but we still shouted &#8230; <a href="https://returninghomefromexile.wordpress.com/2010/05/12/sky-train-tibetan-women-on-the-edge-of-history/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Kung-Fu Nuns</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 07:26:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When you live in a foreign country for a year, you find yourself returning to your home county with more questions than answers. Sometimes it&#8217;s hard to ask these questions, situated as they are within Western ignorance and white privilege, &#8230; <a href="https://returninghomefromexile.wordpress.com/2010/05/07/kung-fu-nuns/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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