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		<title>Off to Battle!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 18:55:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yan Xishan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dearest Internetianz: I dare say I do not know what has come over me!  I have made the most epic decisions, and you will be the first to know about it.  This summer, I will take the battle to the Japs and the Commie Pinkos!  I am no longer content to lay around Taiyuan watching [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yanxishan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1034865&amp;post=299&amp;subd=yanxishan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oh Shit: The Bare Sticks Are Back!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2010 17:31:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yan Xishan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Internets: Things are rough here in the Yan Xishan camp.  Two weeks back, after a night of heavy drinking, I was curled up on my kang, most thankful that the thick coal smoke that forms Taiyuan&#8217;s natural weather patterns was keeping the sun at bay.  Just at that moment, my #6 wife asked me [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yanxishan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1034865&amp;post=290&amp;subd=yanxishan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hey Barbarians: Come Serve China!</title>
		<link>http://yanxishan.wordpress.com/2010/02/28/barbarians-come-serve-china/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 17:20:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yan Xishan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barbarians]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dirty Stinking Barbarians]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gentle Readers: Have you heard the news?  It is the talk of the Shanxi interwebs: an American barbarian, famous for playing the game of &#8220;basketball&#8221; has come to our not-so-humble province, promising to labor and bring us glory!  I myself am a bit confused about all of this.  Seriously, there is a war going on, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yanxishan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1034865&amp;post=281&amp;subd=yanxishan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>#3 Most Impressive Dynasty: The Qing</title>
		<link>http://yanxishan.wordpress.com/2010/02/16/3-most-impressive-dynasty-the-qing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:20:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yan Xishan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dirty Stinking Barbarians]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jiang Jieshi]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tibet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Top Ten]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Greetings Peoples of the Internets: Recently I have been chatting with my old rival and drinking buddy, Zhang Xueliang.  Of course, we have to have these &#8220;chats&#8221; via telegram, as that old mouth breather Jiang Jieshi has kept the Young Marshall under house arrest ever since the so-called &#8220;Xi&#8217;an Incident.&#8221;  But he has to be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yanxishan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1034865&amp;post=265&amp;subd=yanxishan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Laowais in China: What are they up to these days?</title>
		<link>http://yanxishan.wordpress.com/2010/02/05/laowais-in-china-what-are-they-up-to-these-days/</link>
		<comments>http://yanxishan.wordpress.com/2010/02/05/laowais-in-china-what-are-they-up-to-these-days/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:32:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yan Xishan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dirty Stinking Barbarians]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Readers: Thought some of you might find this chart useful. YXS<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yanxishan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1034865&amp;post=259&amp;subd=yanxishan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to Drink Like a Warlord</title>
		<link>http://yanxishan.wordpress.com/2010/01/17/how-to-drink-like-a-warlord/</link>
		<comments>http://yanxishan.wordpress.com/2010/01/17/how-to-drink-like-a-warlord/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 17:01:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yan Xishan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beijing]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Booze]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Confucius]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Feng Yuxiang]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dearest Readers: Recently, Beijing Boyce, the all-star blogger and friend to Shanxi&#8217;s most eligible warlord, published my list of the greatest bars of China&#8217;s erstwhile capital city.  You can read all about it right here.  Be sure to notice how kick-ass I look in my Time magazine cover.  In honor of this auspicious occasion, I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yanxishan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1034865&amp;post=253&amp;subd=yanxishan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Merry Christmas from Hoth-like Shanxi</title>
		<link>http://yanxishan.wordpress.com/2009/12/20/merry-christmas-from-hoth-like-shanxi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:39:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yan Xishan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Holidays]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dearest Readers: It is the holiday season here in Taiyuan, which means a &#8220;temporary&#8221; truce with the hated Japs, bonus rations of vinegar for the troops, and a plenty of extra performances for my favorite qinqiang opera troop.  Tonight they are staging, at my request, a &#8220;mash-up&#8221; of The White-Haired Girl and A Christmas Carol. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yanxishan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1034865&amp;post=248&amp;subd=yanxishan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Patriotic Masturbation</title>
		<link>http://yanxishan.wordpress.com/2009/11/27/patriotic-masturbation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:01:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yan Xishan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dearest Readers: My deepest apologies for not updating my &#8220;blog&#8221; sooner, but I had been away from Taiyuan, which, I am proud to say, is quite lovely this time of year.  Just this morning I was lounging on my extra large kang, watching a private performance from one of my favorite local opera stars (a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yanxishan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1034865&amp;post=235&amp;subd=yanxishan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oh, the Cantonese&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://yanxishan.wordpress.com/2009/11/16/oh-the-cantonese/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:34:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yan Xishan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hotpot]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What sick shit will they think of next?  Hot pot, but replacing the broth with boiling elephant placenta?  Nothing those sick southern fucks might do could surprise me. Way to go, Guangdongren.  Thanks to you, here is what the internet thinks of us Chinese folks: Let&#8217;s just get this straight.  Up here in Shanxi, yes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yanxishan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1034865&amp;post=229&amp;subd=yanxishan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No Mao Zedong, You Cannot Have the JPA</title>
		<link>http://yanxishan.wordpress.com/2009/10/08/no-mao-zedong-you-cannot-have-the-jpa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:52:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yan Xishan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hola Friends: You know, I have had my share of problems with the Communists.  Fundamentally, we disagree on a number of critical issues, and these are disagreements that will never be overcome.  They want to communize my many wives, concubines, female friends, and various sex workers so that the peasant hordes will not have to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yanxishan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1034865&amp;post=217&amp;subd=yanxishan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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