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		<title>Out on a high note</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, another semester has come to an end. I spent most of last weekend and Monday marking reports, and on Tuesday the exams started&#8230; Since then, I&#8217;ve done practically nothing except grade those&#8230;. and finally finished about half an hour ago. With all that happening, I haven&#8217;t made it to yiquan classes for a while; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://burningpearl.com/jianghu/2010/07/15/out-on-a-high-note/</link>
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		<title>Are you a UK martial artist?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you are a martial artist based in the UK? If so, I have a request. The Criminal Justice Act 1988 (Offensive Weapons) (Amendment) Order 2008 bans all curved swords. This includes Japanese katanas, Chinese Dao, Russian shashkas, and so on. It does not, however, ban straight swords &#8211; so if I moved back to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://burningpearl.com/jianghu/2010/07/09/are-you-a-uk-martial-artist/</link>
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		<title>Two types of bagua</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It rained while I was cycling to work last Wednesday. I had a rain cape, but my feet got soaked, and were damp for the rest of the day. Ever since, I&#8217;ve had a pain in my left instep; S. says that my spleen meridian has been weakened, so I need to take care of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://burningpearl.com/jianghu/2010/07/03/two-types-of-bagua/</link>
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		<title>Recent reading</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Striking Thoughts has a good review of Jingwu: The School That Transformed Kung Fu. Jing Wu, or Chin Woo as I know them, were my training neighbours in Duxton Plain Park, and I got to know a number of them. Lots of very nice people there. This looks to be an interesting book; I&#8217;d like [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://burningpearl.com/jianghu/2010/07/01/recent-reading/</link>
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		<title>Dresden 1945, redux in the US?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you thought I was being unnecessarily bearish about the immediate future, well&#8230;. I need to pinch myself; what I&#8217;m hearing beggars belief. Here&#8217;s the latest: officials from the US states bordering the Gulf of Mexico are briefing their disaster-response peers in other stats on plans for mass evacuation of the population of the Gulf [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://burningpearl.com/jianghu/2010/06/30/dresden-1945-redux-in-the-us/</link>
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		<title>Pieces of eight</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sorry, couldn&#8217;t think of a good title. Went to another qigong class at Small Steps last night, and enjoyed it. I&#8217;m coming to the end of the classes I&#8217;ve prepaid, and after that I think I&#8217;ll switch to the baguazhang classes to get some work done on the applications side of it. They also organize [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://burningpearl.com/jianghu/2010/06/30/pieces-of-eight/</link>
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		<title>WSJ: Is Daoism Losing Its Way?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal has a very interesting article about Daoism &#8211; take a look before it vanishes behind the WSJ paywall. The gist of the article is that Daoism is finding it hard to compete against other religions, and against widespread ignorance amongst Chinese (both mainlanders and the diaspora, including Singapore) about what it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://burningpearl.com/jianghu/2010/06/28/wsj-is-daoism-losing-its-way/</link>
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		<title>Training in the trees</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I mentioned, the Small Steps school train in a different Beijing park every Sunday. Yesterday, it was the Temple of Heaven, right down in the south of the city. There&#8217;s now a subway stop outside the East Gate, so that&#8217;s how I went &#8211; but it seemed to take a loooooong time, and I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://burningpearl.com/jianghu/2010/06/28/training-in-the-trees/</link>
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		<title>Bagua updates</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I was a student at Tsinghua University, the cafe-bar Lush overlooking Wudaokou train station was one of my favourite hangouts. Later on, when I first moved to my current job, it effectively became my office &#8211; it was where I would do a lot of my lesson prep and marking. I also used to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://burningpearl.com/jianghu/2010/06/26/bagua-updates/</link>
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		<title>Exercise</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had planned to work late in the office last night, but by the time I&#8217;d finished teaching I was feeling a bit jaded and in need of exercise and fresh air. So, I got on my bike and cycled to Zhongshan Park, stopping at home to quickly change and pick up my shashkas. I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://burningpearl.com/jianghu/2010/06/19/exercise/</link>
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