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		<title>Party Like It&#8217;s 1949</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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://walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2009/10/02/party-like-its-1949/</link>
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		<title>The Plight of the Uighurs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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://walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2009/07/09/the-plight-of-the-uighurs/</link>
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		<title>China&#8217;s New Newspaper</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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://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>
		<description><![CDATA[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://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>
		<description><![CDATA[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://walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2009/01/19/big-trouble-in-little-africa/</link>
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