Chinese nationalism… California Swoop: Xinjiang Scholars and Hoover Papers 26 Aug 2011 I'm on the California northward swoop this afternoon, having spent yesterday at University of California-Irvine and today, thanks to a 3 a.m. start in Los Angeles and monumentally placid weather…
American Foreign Policy… Yuanhai Fangwei [远海防卫]: Observing China’s Navy 25 Aug 2011 Back in the American defense belt of Orange County, I'm reading Kissinger and reflecting on the extensive annual report to Congress from the Pentagon regarding Chinese military capabilities. The full…
American Foreign Policy… “US-China Musical Diplomacy” at the US Consulate in Chengdu 28 Jul 2011 25 July 2011 Dr. Adam Cathcart Sino-U.S Relations Lecture at the Chengdu U.S Consulate [Transcription by Mycal Ford, Pacific Lutheran University] Part I: Conflict and Culture: It is often thought…
China… Emerging Chinese Narratives in the Sino-Korean Border Zone // 环球广播的中朝边区报道 17 Jul 20117 Jul 2021 The Korean border news narrative of the Chinese Communist Party seems to be changing in some subtle and perhaps fundamental ways. As Michael Rank first pointed out on North Korea…
Chinese communist party… Sino-Japanese Sehnsucht 7 Jul 2011 This post is my own small commemoration of July 7 in the Chinese context; it is a bit of a centaur in that the first half is rather traditional scholar-style…
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…
American Foreign Policy… Assessing Party Policies in Tibet in the 1950s: Notes on Melvyn Goldstein’s Volume 2 1 May 20119 May 2011 Anyone who has the slightest pretext of considering themselves informed on the question of current Chinese Communist Party policy in Tibet needs to enter into an extended reconnaissance of this…
Art… 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…
China… Melodious Plateau: Politics and Song at Losar (The Tibetan New Year) 19 Mar 201119 Mar 2011 [This is a guest post by Kristiana Henderson of Pacific Lutheran University, based upon research begun in Tibet in October 2010 and continued for the duration of that fall in…
American Foreign Policy… Farewell, Leighton Stuart? The US Ambassador’s Jasmine Stroll in Wangfujing 27 Feb 20115 Mar 2015 Jon Huntsman, the American ambassador to China, caused a bit of a stir with his attendance at a non-demonstration-turned-media-event at the Wangfujing area McDonalds last week, an event held (or not…
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