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		<title>Olympic fashion (non)sense</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, everyone and their grandma is calling the 2008 Beijing Olympics China&#8217;s coming out party, and they&#8217;ve just been given the biggest reason yet, as it doesn&#8217;t get any gayer than this.
Sorry, I don&#8217;t mean to offend or misrepresent the gay community, &#60;em&#62;Queer Eye&#60;/em&#62; teaches us you all have far more fashion sense than this.
This [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lostlaowai.com/commentary/blog/2008/07/26/olympic-fashion-nonsense/</link>
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		<title>Driven Mad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m slowly developing a phobia for mid-afternoon taxi drivers. I&#8217;m not sure if they&#8217;re all absolute twats, or if its just me.&#160; Can&#8217;t possibly be me. I hope not anyhow&#8230;
Taking a cab between 3:30 and 4pm is easily the biggest pain in my relocated ass right now. My current schedule requires me to commute at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lostlaowai.com/commentary/blog/2008/07/25/driven-mad/</link>
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		<title>How does China Define Terrorism?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I read about the bus explosions in Kunming on this past Monday I was a little surprised that the local police weren&#8217;t calling it terrorism. I don&#8217;t believe that it was done by anyone with a political agenda. This was probably done, as the police are saying, by someone with a local grievance. But isn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lostlaowai.com/commentary/blog/2008/07/24/how-does-china-define-terrorism/</link>
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		<title>Photo of the Week: Daily Gongfu</title>
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There are a few things that no matter how long I&#8217;m in China will always bring a pleasant smile to my face - the elderly practicing taiqi, dancing or just walking backwards in parks is one of them. The above photo is by Shanghai-based photographer Stephane Ferrero.


Submit Your Photos
Every week(ish) we&#8217;ll feature an interesting, funny, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lostlaowai.com/commentary/blog/2008/07/24/photo-of-the-week-daily-gongfu/</link>
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		<title>Book Review: I Could Probably Live Without &#8220;A Year Without Made in China&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have to say that I was really surprised when I opened up a Sara Bongiorni&#8217;s A Year Without Made in China &#8211; the story about one family&#8217;s attempt to boycott Chinese products for all of 2005 &#8212; there wasn&#8217;t much about China in it.
The book is subtitled &#8220;One Family&#8217;s True Life Adventure in the Global [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lostlaowai.com/commentary/blog/2008/07/20/book-review-i-could-probably-live-without-a-year-without-made-in-china/</link>
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		<title>More Monopoly Money, Please</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a damn good thing that I live in a city where the accepted legal tender is basically Monopoly money, because finance gives me the heebie jeebies. It always has. My pre-adolescent lemonade stands went bankrupt, the last time I balanced a checkbook was during a particularly awesome round of hacky-sack, and the merest whiff [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lostlaowai.com/commentary/blog/2008/07/20/more-monopoly-money-please/</link>
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		<title>ChinaSMACK in your veins or on your face, it&#8217;s sure to affect and offend</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After wandering the halls of the China blogsphere for a few years now, it generally takes a pretty unique China-themed site to raise my eyebrow. ChinaSMACK is just such a site.
Essentially the site digs up, translates and reposts all the shit and sludge, peppered liberally with the plain weird, that are hot (or &#8220;viral&#8221;) topics [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lostlaowai.com/commentary/blog/2008/07/19/chinasmack-in-your-veins-or-on-your-face-its-sure-to-affect-and-offend/</link>
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		<title>A sober discussion about the Olympics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s little doubt that the 2008 Beijing Olympics have become more a political affair galvanizing views of China between &#8220;Western bias&#8221; and &#8220;blind Chinese nationalism&#8221; than anything even remotely resembling a global, peace-celebrating sporting event.
Because of this, there&#8217;s been an endless barrage of reporting and blogging that has gone a long way to inciting these [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lostlaowai.com/commentary/blog/2008/07/18/a-sober-discussion-about-the-olympics/</link>
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		<title>Chinabounder returns, identity revealed?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Everyone&#8217;s favourite China user and abuser, Chinabounder, has returned - flicking the lights back on at his blog: Sex and Shanghai/欲望上海.
As with his last return, he seems much more focused on sticking it to the Chinese government than he does sticking it to random Chinese girls - that was after all what originally gained him [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lostlaowai.com/commentary/blog/2008/07/14/chinabounder-returns-identity-revealed/</link>
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		<title>There&#8217;s A New Massage Tout in Town: China Daily!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not a big fan of China Daily, China&#8217;s national language newspaper but I do read its website occasionally when there&#8217;s nothing better available for work. I recently noticed one thing at the bottom of the each news story, a massage ad.
Now I thought that was something only The Shanghai Daily did &#8212; and even then [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lostlaowai.com/commentary/blog/2008/07/12/theres-a-new-massage-tout-in-town-china-daily/</link>
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