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		<title>China singing a new tune?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 13:17:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Ken Smith Making the rounds among China music-watchers the past couple of weeks has been a report that, following the fuss over lip-synching at the Beijing Olympics, the Ministry of Culture may be clamping down on professional performers “faking it.” First reported in the Guardian, then picked up in numerous news sites and chatrooms, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shanghaied by Asian Orchestras</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 18:13:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Ken Smith I&#8217;d just landed in Shanghai last Saturday, getting ready to compare the Shanghai Opera House’s production of Il trittico with the Il trittico I’d seen the night before in Macau, when I stumbled upon the Alliance of Asia/Pacific Region Orchestras, which was having its annual conference a few blocks away from where [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chinese lessons in San Francisco</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 03:06:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Ken Smith Although San Francisco is rather famously open to Asian influences, this season’s production of The Bonesetter’s Daughter has taught people at San Francisco Opera a few new expressions in Chinese. Take “huang niu” – literally, “yellow cow” – which is what the Chinese call scalpers for any public event or transportation requiring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Cloudy &#8216;Tea&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:28:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Ken Smith Back before the Olympic madness in Beijing and my full immersion in The Bonesetter’s Daughter in San Francisco, I put out word for anyone to help explain what precisely was being premiered in the “global premiere” of Tan Dun’s Tea at Beijing’s National Centre for the Performing Arts. I’ve just recently noticed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China Overseas</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2008 19:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Ken Smith Okay, now I have to come clean. For most of the last month I’ve been away from China. Mostly I’ve been in San Francisco for rehearsals of The Bonesetter’s Daughter opera by Stewart Wallace and Amy Tan. This is not exactly getting away from China, since most of the cast and several [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Classical music and media in China 4</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:31:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Ken Smith After my review in the Financial Times asked what exactly was new in the “global premiere” of “the Chinese version” of Tan Dun’s opera Tea at Beijing’s National Centre for the Performing Arts, I got an email from someone insisting that, based on the photo that ran in the print edition of [...]]]></description>
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