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Category: Chinese Avant-Garde

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Enlightenment, Cell, Studio: Beijing, Berlin, and Ai Weiwei

4 Apr 20114 Apr 2011
In its typically understated fashion of reasserting totalitarian facts, the Chinese government appears to have arrested the dissident provocateur Ai Weiwei in Beijing.  (Hat tip to Evan Osnos in Beijing…
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Tremors on the Periphery: Sinuiju Unrest

26 Feb 2011
Yesterday I got a message from one of my favorite North Korea specialists, Owen Miller at the School of Oriental and African Sciences in London, concening a recent disturbance in…
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Transmediale Infusion

4 Feb 20114 Feb 2011
One of the beauties of living in an existence torn between the 19th century (hemmed by Prussian systems, Schumannian aufschwungen, the epistolary desire) and the 21st century (all the while…
China…

Drop That: Cruising the Xinhua Bookstores in Lhasa

14 Oct 201018 Nov 2016
About forty minutes before I was due to vacate downtown Lhasa, I scampered across town over to the largest Xinhua bookstore (naturally, it was right across from the Tibet Autonomous…
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拆 the World

9 Jul 2010
那是艺术家的责任:震动我们的思想,批评形式,创新观点。 可观摩观摩! (徐在黑暗监狱座之外,当然)。 Apart from the Edward Wong story which is linked in the below picture, I'm not familiar with the case of artist Wu Yuren, nor have I seen…
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sputniko

2 May 20102 May 2010
Sputniko is absolutely tremendous: a performance artist/DJ with wit, originality, and commitment to a floating future from Japan, via London (thanks to a friend [of a friend of a friend]…
Chinese Avant-Garde

La science en Chine : un géant est né [Science in China: A Child is Born]

13 Apr 201013 Apr 2010
From Liberation: Où en est la science chinoise ? Au deuxième rang mondial par sa production d'articles de recherche dans les revues scientifiques depuis 2007, elle continue sa vive croissance.…
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Censorship and Mockery: Chinese Contemporary Art in French Eyes

8 Mar 20109 Mar 2010
Here on this website, we have tossed off a few missives in the past about Sino-French relations and the role played of  looted art therein.  And why not?  Since even…
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Huanqiu Galleries of Note

27 Feb 2010
Chinese Avant-Garde

Scenes from Shanghai / JingDaily Update

15 Feb 201015 Feb 2010
In preparations for the World Expo 2010, the city of Shanghai is changing even more rapidly than usual.  Do yourself a favor and check out this excellent montage of images…

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