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	<title>Pathology of Wanderlust &#187; Teaching</title>
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		<title>Getting Settled in the City of Perpetual Gloom</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 08:56:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A  green-eyed monster was here.  I knew it when another foreign teacher complimented Sarah, a post-doc student assigned to help me transition to life in one of China’s largest cities, the City of Perpetual Gloom.  To me, the green-eyed monster was a minotaur which shook its head furiously and threw its horns to either side.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Portrait of the Teacher by a Young Student</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 04:54:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A student from my underground literature class wrote an article about her experience with my teaching method.  I had been helping the student develop her writing skills so that she could perform well on the GREs as her dream is to go to graduate school on edge of the prairie in Garrison Keillor Country &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teaching Nineteen Eighty-Four in Mao Country</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 00:06:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every Wednesday evening six Chinese girls came to my apartment.  By the middle of the Spring 2010 term at Xiangnan University in the home province of Uncle Mao and General Tso, I had come to depend on them to keep me happy.  They were junior English majors and picked English names like Tina, Victoria, Christie, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Day in the Life of a Fake Teacher in the Real China</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 03:31:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One day I found myself squealing like a pig in front of children.  I pushed my nose up, grunted, and oinked.  We were playing a simplified version of charades.  It was a Sunday afternoon in the bleak of January.  And this being China, it was bleaker than bleak.  The dean of my university had loaned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Goodbye Year of the Ox</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 12:22:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since I only teach three days a week, and spend most of my time studying, reading, blogging and sheltering from the cold, wintry rain it is easy to forget where I am.  A quick jaunt about the campus quickly reminds me that I’m not in Pennsylvania anymore. Just beyond the dingy metropolis, my university was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#039;s Gettin&#039; Hot in Here (So Hot)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:30:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Wow, you ah sooo stro-ooong.&#8221;  The tone of his voice turned each of the last two words into something bisyllabic.   The student had been scoping me out.  This is what it feels like to be a zoo animal or a celebrity in America, and just an ordinary foreigner in Chenzhou, China. My job was to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teaching British Romanticism in China</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 11:57:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been procrastinating. A recent trip to Montana left me in a swoon. Now it was just a Movable Feast.  But I needed to get back on track and prepare a lecture on American Romanticism &#38; New England Transcendentalism. As I wrote this students were reading excerpts from The Scarlet Letter, The Raven, Song of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Traditional Chinese Medicine &amp; Elizabethan Theatre</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewmuller.com/2009/week-five-and-the-drama-has-already-started-327</link>
		<comments>http://www.matthewmuller.com/2009/week-five-and-the-drama-has-already-started-327#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:56:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With 16 teaching hours per week and a four day weekend it seemed that I had an abundance of free time.  There were no office hours required, but I provided nine hours during evenings throughout the week for students wanting to talk about literature, culture, or life.  It had to be evenings because the studentry [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teaching Thoreau in the Heartland of China</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewmuller.com/2009/teaching-thoreau-in-the-heartland-of-china-312</link>
		<comments>http://www.matthewmuller.com/2009/teaching-thoreau-in-the-heartland-of-china-312#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 11:13:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was teaching Thoreau in a time when the Chinese were migrating from the countryside into the cities. It was a new Industrial Age—but this one was taking place during the age of globalism, cell phones, and Hello Kitty. Experts estimated that a population greater than that of America’s total population would move into Chinese [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Back to School: Boomlay, boomlay, boomlay, Boom!</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewmuller.com/2009/day-1-boomlay-boomlay-boomlay-boom-256</link>
		<comments>http://www.matthewmuller.com/2009/day-1-boomlay-boomlay-boomlay-boom-256#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 08:53:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[They were a tough crowd. I introduced my first two literature classes to my concept of learning as a journey. At first their faces were impenetrable masks. Then I told them, “Even in America we know about Chair Mao&#8217;s famous Long March, and the founding of the People&#8217;s Republic of China.” Their faces lit up [...]]]></description>
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