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	<title>The Walrus Blog &#187; Letter from China</title>
	<link>http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs</link>
	<description>Fearless. Thoughtful. Witty. Canadian. And Opinionated.</description>
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		<title>Party Like It&#8217;s 1949</title>
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October 1st marked the sixtieth anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China. To celebrate the occasion, the Communist Party organized a giant pat on the back for the local populace. It’s a gesture unseen since, well, last year’s Olympic opening ceremonies. In China’s largest-ever showing of military might, tanks and lorries carrying [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2009/10/02/party-like-its-1949/</link>
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		<title>The Plight of the Uighurs</title>
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In the fall of 2007, on a bus from Turpan, an oasis town on the old Silk Road, to Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang, I met a young Uighur kid named Musitafa. He was impossibly bright; he spoke three languages and had won scholarships to study in Shanghai and England. He was excited to hear [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2009/07/09/the-plight-of-the-uighurs/</link>
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		<title>China&#8217;s New Newspaper</title>
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Considering the gloomy state of the world media, the April launch of Global Times was an ironic affair. At a lavish banquet in a Beijing hotel, &#8220;glasses clinked under crystal chandeliers,&#8221; The Guardian reported, as hundreds of diplomats, journalists, and other dignitaries welcomed in style the English-language addition of the foreign affairs newspaper, published by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2009/05/05/coming-soon-to-a-newsstand-near-you-the-chinese-government/</link>
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		<title>Macau: And You Thought Vegas Was Weird</title>
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I recently travelled north to the Mongolian border and south to Guangzhou and Macau, working on separate stories about human trafficking and China’s African population. This postcard is from Macau, where prostitution thrives even as the casinos tank.
MACAU—The hosts at the Chinese sauna — twenty years old, tops, with brush cuts and baggy suits — [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2009/02/17/macau-and-you-thought-vegas-was-weird/</link>
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		<title>Big Trouble in Little Africa</title>
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I recently travelled north to the Mongolian border and south to Guangzhou and Macao, working on separate stories about human trafficking and China’s African population. Over the next few weeks I’ll be writing some short postcards from each of the cities, since I think they provide interesting snapshots of China today. This one is about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2009/01/19/big-trouble-in-little-africa/</link>
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		<title>Dinosaur Bones and Brothels</title>
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I recently travelled north to the Mongolian border and south to Guangzhou and Macao, working on separate stories about human trafficking and China&#8217;s African population. Over the next few weeks I&#8217;ll be writing some short postcards from each of the cities, since I think they provide interesting snapshots of China today. This one is about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2008/12/05/dinosaur-bones-and-brothels/</link>
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		<title>The New New (Old) Beijing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For expats, the razing of South Bar Street for a residential development was the end of Old Beijing
A few blocks from Workers’ Stadium, which was commissioned by Mao Zedong in 1959 to mark the tenth anniversary of the People’s Republic of China, is a neighbourhood called Sanlitun, the city’s centre of hedonism. Sanlitun is a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2008/11/04/the-new-new-old-beijing/</link>
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		<title>The Games Are Over. Now What?</title>
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BEIJING&#8212;It&#8217;s just after 7:30 am on the day of the closing ceremonies and we&#8217;re counting down the hours at the CBC studio. The Games are almost over, and thank the good Lord for that. It&#8217;s not that I&#8217;m happy for the Olympics to end (rather glum, actually), only that I want to sleep past sunrise [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2008/08/24/the-games-are-over-now-what/</link>
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		<title>Not Your Mother&#8217;s CCTV</title>
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SHANGHAI—The New York Times has an article this morning heralding the arrival of CCTV on the world stage. Turns out the Beijing Olympics has awakened advertisers to the vast viewership enjoyed by the state network—an eighteen-channel conglomerate—in the world’s most populous country. The finals for women’s table tennis, for example, drew more viewers than the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2008/08/22/not-your-mothers-cctv-anymore/</link>
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		<title>Tears and Loathing in Beijing</title>
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BEIJING&#8212;Last Saturday something incredible happened in the Bird&#8217;s Nest. Usain Bolt, the aptly named Jamaican extraterrestrial, demolished the world&#8217;s fastest runners with a swagger, cutting three hundredths of a second off his own world record. I was fortunate enough to be there, and I&#8217;ve never seen anything like it. The stadium was on fire.
Two days [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2008/08/19/tears-and-loathing-in-beijing/</link>
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