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		<title>The Travels of Marco Polo Translated by W. Marsden</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:55:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jascha Kessler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems that world is more fantastic than our own travel brochures today can suggest for comfortable tourists. There has never been such an extensive realm, nor one with such an incredible structure of rapid communication over thousands of miles. Commerce thrived from Persia to Java, and one reason that may account for it, was order — and a flat tax of 10%. The law was strict and strictly administered everywhere, which was a marvel to Polo, in comparison with fractious Europe.]]></description>
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		<title>Falling off the Edge: Travels Through the Dark Heart of Globalization by Alex Perry</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 14:55:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Lida</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perry describes a world without a middle class, a world in which, according to 2006 statistics, one percent of the world’s adults own forty percent of all global assets. The richest ten percent own eighty-five percent, while the poorest half own less than one percent.]]></description>
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		<title>Dr. Shashi Tharoor: Understanding India</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/1331</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:33:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Comstock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["India is a status-quo power: it wants nothing that Pakistan has. Pakistan’s rulers, however, are obsessed with Kashmir, which they have repeatedly tried and failed to wrest from India through war and militancy, and with a desire to “cut India down to size” by bleeding it through terrorism. What needs to happen is for a new political culture to prevail in Pakistan, one that privileges peace, dialogue, co-operation, tourism and trade instead of resentment, bigotry, militarism, intolerance and violence."]]></description>
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		<title>High Crimes: The Fate of Everest in an Age of Greed</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/672</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 13:52:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Holt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[All of this pales in comparison to the obscene madness that has now become the fate of Base Camp at Mount Everest. The 8,000-meter peaks of the Himalayas have become the unfortunate repositories for what is repugnant about human nature with very little innate goodness surviving. Dying climbers pushed aside, ignored and denied medical help while their equipment is stolen, greedy guides unethical to the point of criminal, drugs, alcoholism, prostitution – hell this could just as well be inner city New York or Saigon as 20,000 feet above sea level in what used to be one of the most remote landscapes on earth. Everest has become the poster child for this debauchery.]]></description>
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		<title>The Pearl Jacket and Other Stories: Flash Fiction from Contemporary China</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/637</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 13:46:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elinor Teele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Flash fiction, or the “smoke-long story,” or the “skinny story,” as it is sometimes called in China, is short, true. But as anyone who has tried to write a thank you card knows, brevity ain’t easy. Nor is it truly fair to view this book as a kind of primer on all thoughts Chinese. After all, one doesn’t expect E. Annie Proulx’s work to bear much relation to T.C. Boyle’s, despite the shared vocabulary. ]]></description>
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		<title>Parag Khanna Discusses The Second World</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/396</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 14:07:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Comstock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["Around the entire world what I see is Europe and China investing into and buying greater shares of foreign economies—and thus gaining significant political and even military leverage over them—at our expense. Power has to be a fair balance among a range of tools, including the military, in order to be used effectively. We’re not doing that now, and I don’t see a good strategy coming out of Washington as to how to do it better."]]></description>
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		<title>Daughter of Heaven by Nigel Cawthorne</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/291</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2007 14:39:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elinor Teele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a shocking and vaguely incestuous move, she seduced T’ai-tsung’s son, the Emperor Kao-tsung, and from there used a combination of feminine wile and strong arming to claim the throne of one of the most powerful empires the world has ever seen.]]></description>
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		<title>An Interview With Novelist Nicole Mones</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/227</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:08:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Loftus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["I know food is hot right now – we have the Food Network – but believe me, in Western civilization we have never elevated cuisine historically to the level of art, to which it’s been elevated in China. But through learning about Chinese food, and through her encounters with this man and his family, and his effort to compete in an Olympics of cuisine, in the 2008 games, she learns about life."]]></description>
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		<title>A Grand Tour of Asia &#8211; by Hania Tallmadge and Beverley Jackson</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/191</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2007 03:49:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Holt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m not sure what category A Grand Tour of Asia  by Hania Tallmadge and Beverley Jackson should be put in. It’s certainly not a novel or narrative non-fiction or even a coffee table book (unless a downsized model). Other than the fact that it has a hardcover and pages inside, I’m not all that sure this one is really a book.]]></description>
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		<title>Eagle Dreams – Searching for Legends in Wild Mongolia &#8211; by Steve Bodio</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/121</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2007 11:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Holt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The image of a fierce Mongol horseman riding the harsh plains of his native land with an enormous eagle perched on one arm, the two of them searching for prey that includes fox, hare and even wolf is one that has haunted writer Steve Bodio for decades.]]></description>
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