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		<title>The Super Adorable Liu Ba (translation)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 06:31:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mei]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Three Kingdoms]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This translation is based on an essay found on many Chinese 3 Kingdoms sites. Unfortunately I couldn&#8217;t track down the name of the original author. The characters and events in this essay are based on historical records, not based on the novel. Read on to find out why it&#8217;s a popular little piece on characters [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Little Mighty got his lunch, and Stephen Chow left his mark on the Chinese language</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Mar 2008 09:26:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mei]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Has Little Mighty picked up his lunch yet?&#8221; (小强领便当了吗?) This was a question posted on a Baidu forum on The Ravages of Time, a Chinese comics series marginally based on the events in Three Kingdoms. Twenty years ago this question would have been incomprehensible. Then Stephen Chow movies happened, and these words now make perfect [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Dong Zhuo meets Dracula?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2008 01:10:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lara]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Chapter 8 of the novel of Three Kingdoms the bad guy Dong Zhuo makes a habit of throwing banquets with sinister intent &#8211; either to threaten ministers into compying with his plans to usurp the throne, or to intimidate anyone who disagrees with him. In one open-air banquet in this chapter, he eats happily [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Three visits to rule them all (Part I)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 08:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mei]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cool projects in Three Kingdoms]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The appeal of Luo&#8217;s Three Kingdoms, to me, is its insistence on telling the story as an outsider. Battles, ploys, and occasional moments of sincerity, are all &#8220;seemingly so&#8221;. The book keeps us mere observers, shut out of the intimate thoughts and emotions of all characters, much like our daily encounters with colleagues at a [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Can you really die from swallowing gold?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2007 21:19:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lara]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Dream of the Red Chamber, Phoenix makes her husband&#8217;s concubine&#8217;s life so miserable that the poor girl decides to kill herself, by swallowing a piece of gold. She&#8217;s found the next morning, lying peacefully deceased in her bed, and everyone knows exactly how she killed herself. So how much gold would an average person [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s the deal with cricket fighting?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2007 18:57:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lara]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chinese Classics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cultural Comparisons]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been bumping into stories about cricket-fighting and famous champion crickets in the stories about the monk Ji Gong, and in one of Pu Songling&#8217;s Strange Stories. It seems that there was a wild China-wide fad for cricket fighting, that people submitted their crickets to regional and national contests, and that some places experienced an [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Tackling Two English versions of Dream of the Red Chamber</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2007 18:37:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lara]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dream of the Red Chamber]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Translation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My first attempt at Dream of the Red Chamber was via the 1996 abridged translation by Hsien-yi Yang and Gladys Yang. I believe their approach is one in which they left out chunks of the actual text, but translated the rest very accurately. This resulted in my being really drawn in by dramatic events, like [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Neophyte to Chinese Lit</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jun 2007 00:38:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lara]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chinese Classics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I used to be intimidated by the idea of diving into the Chinese classics &#8211; who could possibly take on all those millenia of books? But since I started with the classics listed on our site I&#8217;ve been a very happy camper! It helps to have a good Chinese friend to talk about them with, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Pearls of Wisdom from Journey to the West</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2007 19:54:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lara]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Journey To The West]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[1) The clever people do all the work: clumsy oafs just sit around. 2) Even a fart can strengthen a breeze.]]></description>
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		<title>The Monkey King meets the Amazons in Journey to the West: Chapters 53 and 54</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2007 17:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lara]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Journey To The West]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just gotten to the part where the four Buddhists get to Womanland. This is amazing stuff, both because of the author&#8217;s blindness to any actual desires women might have to live outside the Chinese paradigm, and because there are similar stories in western lit about the land of the Amazons &#8211; a men-free zone. [&#8230;]]]></description>
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