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		<title>(Not) Being Here</title>
		<link>http://othersidechina.wordpress.com/2010/09/08/not-being-here/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 04:25:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Biddle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[home]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Otherside is in…a transitional mode.  My last post centered around my time in Chengdu, which was far from the end of my time in China, far from the end of the story.  In the time between Chengdu and the Beijing airport, I floated down the Yangtze, escaped a flooding hostel, and awoke to cooing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=othersidechina.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11925005&amp;post=703&amp;subd=othersidechina&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8230;But the Blog Must Go On</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:12:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Biddle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Picture Posts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chengdu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sharon]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Photos courtesy of Sharon.  We walked around Chengdu for hours.  I gave her my camera and told her to take pictures of people.  This is what she came back with. More posts coming soon!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=othersidechina.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11925005&amp;post=670&amp;subd=othersidechina&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Jiemei</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">SAMSUNG DIGITAL CAMERA</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">SAMSUNG DIGITAL CAMERA</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">美女</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">ge</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">小朋友</media:title>
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		<title>Home Now&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://othersidechina.wordpress.com/2010/08/04/home-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 18:58:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Biddle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chengdu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[home]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Back in the States, back in my home, my bedroom, sitting here with my dogs, my belly full of cheese, my brain full of aimless, unanswerable questions.  People ask me things like So, what&#8217;s China like?  How does life in China compare to the US? or, What kind of stuff do you eat in China? [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=othersidechina.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11925005&amp;post=667&amp;subd=othersidechina&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Happening?</title>
		<link>http://othersidechina.wordpress.com/2010/07/19/whats-happening/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 11:17:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Biddle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Picture Posts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hangzhou to Chengdu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[train]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know exactly what I was thinking.  Maybe it was the slow pace of life in Liaocheng and the predictably easy-going way of Hangzhou, but for one reason or another I decided to bag my plans and head west, on a forty-three hour train, with three strangers, and a hard seat.  It was perhaps [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=othersidechina.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11925005&amp;post=651&amp;subd=othersidechina&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
	
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		<media:content url="http://othersidechina.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/sdc13951.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">China Has a Lot of People</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Crammed</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Snuggle</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Max</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">What?</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Lion gets a massage</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">My New Friends</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Lion gets a makeover</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Sichuan Countryside</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Somewhere beautiful</media:title>
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		<title>A Few Pictures of Hangzhou</title>
		<link>http://othersidechina.wordpress.com/2010/07/06/a-few-pictures-of-hangzhou/</link>
		<comments>http://othersidechina.wordpress.com/2010/07/06/a-few-pictures-of-hangzhou/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 13:46:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Biddle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hangzhou]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[West Lake]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For the first leg of my journey after Liaocheng I got on a sleeper train and headed south to Hangzhou, widely regarded as one of the most beautiful cities in China, and one of the few places that lives up to it&#8217;s touted beauty amongst the guidebooks and travel agencies. (It&#8217;s not that China isn&#8217;t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=othersidechina.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11925005&amp;post=643&amp;subd=othersidechina&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">The Lake</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">The Lake II</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Boats</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Even the workers that help the keep the lake pristine fit into the aesthetic of West Lake.  It&#039;s an awareness of appearance rarely executed in China.</media:title>
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		<title>Leaving Liaocheng</title>
		<link>http://othersidechina.wordpress.com/2010/07/04/leaving-liaocheng/</link>
		<comments>http://othersidechina.wordpress.com/2010/07/04/leaving-liaocheng/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 09:47:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Biddle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[journal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[leaving lioacheng]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As I write my bags are packed, a train ticket lies between the folds of my wallet, and I can’t sleep in anticipation of tomorrow night, when I will board a train that will carry me away from Liaocheng, perhaps for the last time.  At this time my emotions are less than easy to describe. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=othersidechina.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11925005&amp;post=640&amp;subd=othersidechina&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Token &#8216;Sorry I Haven&#8217;t Been Posting&#8217; Post</title>
		<link>http://othersidechina.wordpress.com/2010/06/24/the-token-sorry-i-havent-been-posting-post/</link>
		<comments>http://othersidechina.wordpress.com/2010/06/24/the-token-sorry-i-havent-been-posting-post/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 09:29:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Biddle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chinese education system]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[college entrance exams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[exams]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My exams are next Wednesday and like the rest of the student population in China I&#8217;ll be getting little to know rest, sunlight, or fresh air for the next days as I cram for my exams, so the blog has had to take a backseat. In the meantime, check out this article on so-called &#8216;cram [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=othersidechina.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11925005&amp;post=637&amp;subd=othersidechina&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Do You Flick the Guitar?</title>
		<link>http://othersidechina.wordpress.com/2010/06/21/do-you-flick-the-guitar/</link>
		<comments>http://othersidechina.wordpress.com/2010/06/21/do-you-flick-the-guitar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 05:10:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Biddle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tips]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Learning Chinese]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mandarin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Study Abroad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[verbs]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://othersidechina.wordpress.com/?p=632</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One difficulty I&#8217;ve had in learning Chinese is the number of verbs needed to describe similar but different actions.  For example, in English the verb &#8216;to play&#8217; can be used to describe many actions,  such as, &#8220;I play guitar,&#8221; or, &#8220;I play soccer.&#8221;  The Chinese translation is a bit more complex than that.  The verb [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=othersidechina.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11925005&amp;post=632&amp;subd=othersidechina&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Summer Time</title>
		<link>http://othersidechina.wordpress.com/2010/06/20/summer-time/</link>
		<comments>http://othersidechina.wordpress.com/2010/06/20/summer-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jun 2010 05:51:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Biddle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Picture Posts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flyers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[street scavengers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[summer]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://othersidechina.wordpress.com/?p=625</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s summer now and the heat is borderline unbearable, and as a result a lot of Chinese men find shirts rather obsolete.  Even Mr. Wang, pictured here at what&#8217;s supposed to be a business lunch, opts to go shirtless. In states, maybe it&#8217;s one out of every ten people that will take flyers that people [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=othersidechina.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11925005&amp;post=625&amp;subd=othersidechina&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Biddle</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Mr Wang</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">scavengers</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">fruit stand</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Family</media:title>
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		<title>Getting Whored Out&#8230;Part II</title>
		<link>http://othersidechina.wordpress.com/2010/06/19/getting-whored-out-part-ii/</link>
		<comments>http://othersidechina.wordpress.com/2010/06/19/getting-whored-out-part-ii/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jun 2010 06:39:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Biddle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Observations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[getting whored out]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[guanxi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[honesty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mianzi]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Read Getting Whored Out, Part I The problem with studying a culture as alien to me as China, is that I often have trouble distinguishing between what is a result of the culture itself, and what is the result of an individual&#8217;s character.  A lot of the social phenomenon I write about in this blog [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=othersidechina.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11925005&amp;post=621&amp;subd=othersidechina&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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