China… Radiation Reported in China’s Heilongjiang Province 28 Mar 2011 Thus reports China Daily, stating that radiation has been found in the water in Fuyuan county [抚远县], which is China's easternmost point in the northeastern most province, very close to…
Cultural Politics… Let a Green Curtain Descend… 21 Mar 2011 We should be both sorrowful and proud when friends depart, they finding the world in distress and applying their immense energies and talents to its re-balancing. The ecologists thus leave…
East Asian modernity… Post-Soulevement 17 Mar 2011 The earthquake and subsequent tsunami that thrashed the northeastern Japanese coast has generated a great deal of thinking from me, not much of it coherent or of use to readers. …
East Asian modernity… Sharing the Seas 3 Mar 2011 Since more than a few distinguished readers of this blog have expertise in matters dealing with fish and clean oceans in the Far East, and because environmental issues in East…
China… Deals, Development, and Dead Refugees: Get Ready for the New Status Quo on the Sino-North Korean Border 11 Jan 201114 Jan 2011 Among the activities which I undertake each year, there is one for which I reserve a special vim. There on the grand third floor, at the end of the classical…
Environmental Politics in East Asia Report from Dalian 23 Jul 2010 via ChinaDigitalTimes; Suddeutche Zeitung has a photo gallery with commentary on the concurrent floods in the Chinese south.
American Foreign Policy… Hiatus//Documentary Smorgasbord//Steven Chu for President in 2016 20 Jul 201020 Jul 2010 I'm on the two-day cusp of departing from Taipei for the beautiful work that awaits in Seattle, and am thus taking my annual last-week-of-July blogging vacation. I would, in the…
East Asian modernity… Environmental Catastrophe 101 18 Jul 2010 It seems that every time you gain hope, a challenge arrives and a darkness falls across the field of vision. Then, the bright little monocle of the new, freshly gained, insight of…
East Asian modernity… A Few Thoughts on the “Nazis at the Shanghai Expo” Kerfuffle 25 May 2010 Danwei.org recently linked to an English-language article asserting that Chinese crowds at the German pavilion in Shanghai were not only getting out of control, but assaulting German workers and calling…
