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	<title>Asian Current</title>
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	<description>Original Eastern Culture Imports</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2007 10:49:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>City of Black and White Jews</title>
		<link>http://www.asiancurrent.com/2007/09/29/city-of-black-and-white-jews/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Sep 2007 11:25:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category>India</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ At dusk we reached the end of the first stage of our voyage through the romantic backwater lagoons and inlets of the Malabar coast. A crowd of brown boys gathered at the jetty, shouting, &#8220;Allerpey!&#8221;
We got out and sorted our baggage. Then the brown boys saw visions of baksheesh. Nor were they alone in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sweep towards Japanese Empire Part VII</title>
		<link>http://www.asiancurrent.com/2007/09/28/sweep-towards-japanese-empire-part-vii/</link>
		<comments>http://www.asiancurrent.com/2007/09/28/sweep-towards-japanese-empire-part-vii/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2007 09:33:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category>Japan</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ Pan-Asianism is one of the potentially explosive ideas that have contributed to Japan&#8217;s drive for expansion. It has become increasingly popular, especially among high military officers, both active and retired. Typical of the spirit of Japanese Pan-Asianism is an article by the publicist Rin Kaito, who, after recalling the religions, arts, and sciences which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Before the Curtain Rises</title>
		<link>http://www.asiancurrent.com/2007/09/26/before-the-curtain-rises/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:09:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category>India</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ After everyone else had held forth, the general spoke:
&#8220;Yes, gentlemen, you have been to strange places.
But have you ever heard of the Black Pagoda?&#8221;
We were with Allenby&#8217;s army, camped at Deir el Belah on the edge of the Sinai Desert, just south of the old Philistine capital of Gaza. I was putting up for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pseudo-Scientific Formula</title>
		<link>http://www.asiancurrent.com/2007/09/25/pseudo-scientific-formula/</link>
		<comments>http://www.asiancurrent.com/2007/09/25/pseudo-scientific-formula/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2007 15:10:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category>China</category>

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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>Japan Sweep towards Empire Part VI</title>
		<link>http://www.asiancurrent.com/2007/09/24/japan-sweep-towards-empire-part-vi/</link>
		<comments>http://www.asiancurrent.com/2007/09/24/japan-sweep-towards-empire-part-vi/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2007 14:09:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rod</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Japan</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ Professor Teijiro Uyeda, one of Japan&#8217;s leading economists and a specialist on the population question, is convinced that Japan, like other countries which have gone through the process of industrialization and urbanization, will experience a gradual tapering off of the present sharp rate of increase in the number of its inhabitants. He points out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan Sweep towards Empire Part V</title>
		<link>http://www.asiancurrent.com/2007/09/21/japan-sweep-towards-empire-part-v/</link>
		<comments>http://www.asiancurrent.com/2007/09/21/japan-sweep-towards-empire-part-v/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2007 05:47:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rod</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Japan</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ A train journey or a cross-country walking trip gives abundant visual evidence that the rural districts of Japan are crowded to the saturation point. Every available inch of land is cultivated; the carefully terraced, irrigated rice fields on the steep hillsides are a monument of patient toil and ingenuity. Between 1920 and 1930, when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Views of Mankind Christian, Greek and Chinese</title>
		<link>http://www.asiancurrent.com/2007/09/20/views-of-mankind-christian-greek-and-chinese/</link>
		<comments>http://www.asiancurrent.com/2007/09/20/views-of-mankind-christian-greek-and-chinese/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 06:29:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rod</dc:creator>
		
		<category>China</category>

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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>Japan Sweeps towards Empire Part IV</title>
		<link>http://www.asiancurrent.com/2007/09/19/japan-sweeps-towards-empire-part-iv/</link>
		<comments>http://www.asiancurrent.com/2007/09/19/japan-sweeps-towards-empire-part-iv/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 17:15:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rod</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Japan</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ There is a school of thought, persuasively represented in England by Sir Norman Angell, among others, which contends that the national ownership of raw materials is unimportant and that the alleged grievances of the so-called (&#8217;have-not&#8221; powers are largely, if not entirely, spurious. Members of this school of economic thinking declare that the expense [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sweep towards Empire Part III</title>
		<link>http://www.asiancurrent.com/2007/09/18/sweep-towards-empire-part-iii/</link>
		<comments>http://www.asiancurrent.com/2007/09/18/sweep-towards-empire-part-iii/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:35:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rod</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Japan</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ Japan may be regarded, along with Germany and Italy, as one of the three major dissatisfied &#8220;have-not&#8221; powers of the world. It was in Italian Fascist intellectual circles that the idea first found expression that there could just as logically be a &#8220;class struggle&#8221; between rich and poor nations as between the &#8220;bourgeoisie&#8221; and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Asiatic Motif</title>
		<link>http://www.asiancurrent.com/2007/09/17/asiatic-motif/</link>
		<comments>http://www.asiancurrent.com/2007/09/17/asiatic-motif/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2007 22:13:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rod</dc:creator>
		
		<category>China</category>

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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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