Art… transmediale buzz 7 Feb 2012 The Berlin transmediale is, to my knowledge, one of the very best annual conferences (a "convergence" is more the appropriate word) which exist on Planet Earth. I was very fortunate…
Chinese Avant-Garde… Two New Essays on China Beat: Sino-German and Sino-Korean Relations 23 Dec 2011 I've got a few more changes in store for Sinologistical Violoncellist in the new year (most of them involving the bass clef and Japan, not necessarily in that order), but…
Art… Shanghai Impressions, or, What Cellistic Ennui Tells Us about Cultural Dynamics in the Sino-North Korean Relationship 20 Dec 2011 A few days in Shanghai rarely fails to reorient one immediately from wherever illusory place one has been prior. In Shanghai, China’s upward thrust is paired with its revolutionary guts,…
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…
Chinese Avant-Garde… Notes on Sino-German Relations 1 Jul 2011 Mark Siemons, who is rapidly becoming one of my favorite correspondents in Beijing, has another piece in yesterday's Frankfurter Allegemeine Zeitung. Ironically entitled "Deutschland ist eigentlich ein zweites China in…
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…
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…
Cello… Spring Cellist, Spring! 2 May 2011 With more to come about performances in Berlin in February and April, 2011, in Seattle/Tacoma in March and May 2011, and the anticipated Berlin/Beijing!!/Chengdu tour coming up in July 2011.…
Art… Huanqiu Shibao on Ai Weiwei 17 Apr 201118 Apr 2011 [Update: A rather comprehensive analysis of Huanqiu's Ai Weiwei coverage, as of April 8, can be found here via the scrupulous work of JustRecently.] Imagine my surprise, when, today, I…
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…
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