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	<title>The China Blog &#187; Simon  Elegant</title>
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		<title>China Blog: The End</title>
		<link>http://china.blogs.time.com/2009/09/18/china-blog-the-end/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 04:57:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon  Elegant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[All good things must come to an end and, sadly, that applies to the China Blog too, which will shutter at the end of today. I and my colleagues have thoroughly enjoyed doing this (mostly) and equally been interested to get feedback from readers. There  was a lot of puerile drivel, too (you know who you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=china.blogs.time.com&blog=5668227&post=2379&subd=timechinablog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>24</slash:comments>
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		<title>Trouble Ahead</title>
		<link>http://china.blogs.time.com/2009/08/27/trouble-ahead/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 02:37:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon  Elegant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Various reports yesterday (here's the Financial Times)  noted that the U.S. and China ended discussions aimed at solving the problem of confrontation betweem Chinese ships and the U.S. Navy in what China's is evidently aiming to make a 200 mile exclusive maritime zone off its coast. I say evidently as the talks clearly didin't go [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=china.blogs.time.com&blog=5668227&post=2337&subd=timechinablog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>CCTV Tower In Trouble Again</title>
		<link>http://china.blogs.time.com/2009/08/25/cctv-tower-in-trouble-again/</link>
		<comments>http://china.blogs.time.com/2009/08/25/cctv-tower-in-trouble-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 03:02:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon  Elegant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just back from summer holiday and the ever reliable Global Times scores immediately with a piece on a supposed online controversy (as is their common practice backed up with the results of an online poll, which are surely meaningless and easily manipulated even by the loose standards of statistics) revolving around the CCTV Towers, about [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=china.blogs.time.com&blog=5668227&post=2331&subd=timechinablog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>16</slash:comments>
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		<title>Spot The Parody</title>
		<link>http://china.blogs.time.com/2009/07/22/spot-the-parody/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 04:35:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon  Elegant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Proving that some things are possibly beyond satire, here's a question: Was the headline and blurb below taken from a real English-language Chinese paper or from the Onion parody?
Lucky ethnic minorities let good times roll
The 55 ethnic minorities of China have been benefiting from decades of kindness and generosity by the ethnic minority policy. The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=china.blogs.time.com&blog=5668227&post=2250&subd=timechinablog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>21</slash:comments>
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		<title>Eclipses and Superstition</title>
		<link>http://china.blogs.time.com/2009/07/21/eclipses-and-superstition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 02:19:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon  Elegant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here's a bit of trenchant analysis from today's Global Times on this morning's eclipse (all over now in case you were planning to catch it):

In ancient China, people thought a heavenly dog swallowed the sun or moon when an eclipse occurred. They believed the event bode misfortune.
Although many people today, especially youngsters, don't take such [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=china.blogs.time.com&blog=5668227&post=2248&subd=timechinablog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>This Is A Joke II</title>
		<link>http://china.blogs.time.com/2009/07/21/this-is-a-joke-ii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 02:05:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon  Elegant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Readers point out that the website of the company that "bought" the onion is actually funnier than the Onion China spoof.
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Humor Alert: This Is A Joke</title>
		<link>http://china.blogs.time.com/2009/07/20/humor-alert-this-is-a-joke/</link>
		<comments>http://china.blogs.time.com/2009/07/20/humor-alert-this-is-a-joke/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 01:38:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon  Elegant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to the folks at China Digital Times (here, but blocked by GFW of course) for a heads up that the satirical online magazine The Onion has apparently been sold to a Chinese fish oil manufacturing company and is carrying a special issue devoted to China that bears a strange resemblance to, well, you have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=china.blogs.time.com&blog=5668227&post=2242&subd=timechinablog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>33</slash:comments>
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		<title>Pioneering Law Group Faces Closure II</title>
		<link>http://china.blogs.time.com/2009/07/19/pioneering-law-group-faces-closure-ii/</link>
		<comments>http://china.blogs.time.com/2009/07/19/pioneering-law-group-faces-closure-ii/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 08:13:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon  Elegant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just to add to Austin's post below, Teng Biao, who with Xu Zhiyong co-founded the Open Constitution Initiative ,  sent out a text message yesterday. In it he describes how the group (actually a registered company because, as he says, the laws restricting restablishment of NGOs are so tight they had no choice but to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=china.blogs.time.com&blog=5668227&post=2234&subd=timechinablog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>47</slash:comments>
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		<title>Another Big, Unanswered Question About Events in Urumqi</title>
		<link>http://china.blogs.time.com/2009/07/13/another-big-unanswered-question-about-events-in-urumqi/</link>
		<comments>http://china.blogs.time.com/2009/07/13/another-big-unanswered-question-about-events-in-urumqi/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 01:34:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon  Elegant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my post on the recent shootings below, I posed a couple of big outstanding questions about what exactly has happened in Urumqi in the last week. After the jump I am posting an excellent AP story that has one of the most detailed accounts of the awful night of July 5th that I have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=china.blogs.time.com&blog=5668227&post=2167&subd=timechinablog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>51</slash:comments>
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		<title>Our New Design: Comments and Answers</title>
		<link>http://china.blogs.time.com/2009/07/13/our-new-design-comments-and-answers/</link>
		<comments>http://china.blogs.time.com/2009/07/13/our-new-design-comments-and-answers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 01:11:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon  Elegant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An answer to some queries on the new design from our tech honchos in New York.
The RSS feed apparently is designed to only display a few lines and that won't --and can't because of the design of the reader itself-- change. For the commenter who didn't like clicking back and forth between posts, it seems [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=china.blogs.time.com&blog=5668227&post=2161&subd=timechinablog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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