Beijing… Orchestrating Changes on the Multi-Front Electronic Struggle 12 Sep 2012 Recapitulation | After a solid run of 32 months, the academic weblog Sinologistical Violoncellist has reached its logical conclusion. Since beginning in April 2009, this sole-authored website has been cited…
Beijing… Solo 1 Feb 2012 Virtually nothing was posted in January because I was parted from my main axe in Seattle; she needed work, and I needed time to teach and lecture and write, here…
Beijing… The Problem with Cultural Relations… 4 Dec 20116 Dec 2011 ...is fairly described by the New York Times in Beijing, where a post-performance discussion of an American-company-led drama about the Pentagon Papers and government secrecy was cancelled. Next up with…
Art… Reevaluating Ai Weiwei: Guest Commentary 31 Aug 2011 This guest posting comes from the sizzling keyboard of Paul Manfredi, head of the Chinese Studies Program at Pacific Lutheran University and the author of China Avant Garde, one of…
Art… “Hitler’s Stomach” in Beijing: A Review 28 Jun 201114 Feb 2014 Today in Berlin, I was cruising through the Frankfurt Allgemeine Zeitung, the businessman's preferred paper, for German response to the Wen Jiabao visit when I ran across an article so completely…
Beijing… North Korean Television Coverage of Kim Jong Il in China 12 Jun 2011 Wow. Thanks to Curtis Melvin at North Korean Economy Watch for unearthing this.
Art… Ai Weiwei and Sino-German Relations 25 May 201125 May 2011 For the last two months, a stack of German newspapers and internet print-outs about the case of Ai Weiwei seems to have accrued first in my bags in Berlin and…
American Foreign Policy… Henry Kissinger “On China,” and at the Opera 16 May 201116 May 2011 The ever-prolix Henry Kissinger has a new book on U.S.-China relations forthcoming, entitled On China. Advance copies reviewed here by the New York Times; Kissinger is interviewed by NPR here.…
Art… Catching Up on French Reports from China 25 Apr 201125 Apr 2011 Today, prepping a piece on Ai Weiwei in the German press, I popped a few dozen links (beginning with my own "European Sources on East Asia" in my homepage sidebar)…
Art… Analysing the Limits of Soft Power in the Case of Ai Weiwei: Der Tagesspiegel 15 Apr 201116 Apr 2011 As promised, I am working my way through some of the prolix torrent of analysis and concern levied upon the case of Ai Weiwei by authors in Germany, and by…
