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		<title>Pseudo-Scientific Formula</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2007 15:10:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Let us begin with an examination of the Chinese mental make-up which produced this philosophy of living: great realism, inadequate idealism, a high sense of humor, and a high poetic sensitivity to life and nature.
Mankind seems to be divided into idealists and realists, and idealism and realism are the two great forces molding human [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Views of Mankind Christian, Greek and Chinese</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 06:29:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ There are several views of mankind, the traditional Christian theological view, the Greek pagan view, and the Chinese TaoistConfucianist view. (I do not include the Buddhist view because it is too sad.) Deeper down in their allegorical sense, these views after all do not differ so much from one another, especially when the modern [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Asiatic Motif</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2007 22:13:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ In my early twenties I left the Southwest for New York City. Here I spent nearly four years, working during the day and attending lectures at night at New York University. Among the friends I made was an old exiled professor from India, Lala Laipat Rai, who began tutoring me in Indian history, preparatory [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Earth-Bound</title>
		<link>http://www.asiancurrent.com/2007/09/14/earth-bound/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2007 12:41:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The situation then is, this: man wants to live, but he still must live upon this earth. All questions of living in heaven must be brushed aside. Let not the spirit take wings and soar to the abode of the gods and forget the earth. Are we not mortals, condemned to die? The span [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Far Horizons</title>
		<link>http://www.asiancurrent.com/2007/09/10/far-horizons/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 10:53:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Although I had looked on Europe as but a halting-place, eight years had passed. Sometimes I thought half of these years were thrown to the wind, and they the best years of my life, but at other times I knew I had gained as well as lost. I had learned to know myself and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>European Quest</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2007 10:11:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ In Danzig Harbor I deserted the freighter and journeyed to Bel lin to look for the small office maintained by Indian exiles. The first person I met there was the Indian revolutionary leader Virendranath Chattopadhyaya. In New York I had often heard of him as one who had helped form an Indian government-in-exile and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chinese Friends in Spirit</title>
		<link>http://www.asiancurrent.com/2007/09/08/chinese-friends-in-spirit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Sep 2007 05:57:59 +0000</pubDate>
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It is not truth that makes man great, but man that makes truth great. &#8212; CONFUCIUS
Only those who take leisurely what the people of the world are busy about can be busy about what the people of the world take leisurely. &#8212; CHANG CH&#8217;AO
This is a personal testimony, a testimony of my own experience of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Amazing Karakoram Highway</title>
		<link>http://www.asiancurrent.com/2007/01/21/the-amazing-karakoram-highway/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jan 2007 21:49:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Taking cue from the ancient Silk Road or Silk Route that traversed an amazing distance of more than 8000 kms or 5000 miles through high altitude passes, dry inhabitable deserts, picturesque snowbound lakes and mountain caves connecting China with Asia Minor and Southern Asia, the Karakoram Highway (KKH) is an amazing feat of human endurance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Forbidden City</title>
		<link>http://www.asiancurrent.com/2006/11/15/the-forbidden-city/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Nov 2006 05:17:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Forbidden City (referred to in Chinese, as the &#34;Purple Forbidden City&#34;) is actually the Chinese imperial palace that was used by the mid-Ming dynasties. This palace is in the center of Beijing, and no visitor to this Chinese city misses it. The City is currently popularly referred as the Palace Museum. The Forbidden City [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yuan Xiao Lantern Festival</title>
		<link>http://www.asiancurrent.com/2006/11/12/yuan-xiao-lantern-festival/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Nov 2006 05:44:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Yuan Xiao Lantern festival takes place under a full moon, marking the end of the Chinese New Year season. This 2000-year-old Chinese tradition closes out the Lunar New Year and is observed on the 15th day of the first month in the Chinese Lunar calendar although it may change each year. Surprisingly enough, it [...]]]></description>
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