EU-East Asia relations… New European Writing on North Korea 16 Oct 201416 Oct 2014 In terms of high-quality research being done on North Korea and its ties in Northeast Asia, a great deal of good scholarly work is being done these days in Europe.…
Chinese communist party… Hong Kong, the UK, and Occupy Central 1 Oct 20141 Oct 2014 I spoke this evening to Phil Williams of BBC 5 Live about the protests in Hong Kong. While my brain was more than a bit muddled after a very full…
Cultural Politics… Some North Korea Commentary 13 Sep 2014 My comments about North Korean foreign policy were carried in the last couple of days in The Diplomat and the Wall Street Journal's "Korea Real Time" blog. The interview at the…
EU-East Asia relations… In Germany, ROK President Park Geun-hye Talks Reunification and a Possible Kim Jong-un Summit 26 Mar 2014 Having dueled with Japanese Prime Minster Abe Shinzo in The Hague yesterday, the flinty President of the Republic of Korea, Park Geun-hye, spoke with Philipp Abresch forTagesschau.de yesterday, as she set…
EU-East Asia relations… Japan in Winston Churchill’s Postwar Histories 24 Mar 201412 Mar 2016 Living in the United Kingdom, it is practically impossible to ignore the imprint of Winston Churchill on the 20th century in his intertwined roles both as statesman and historian. As…
EU-East Asia relations… New German Ambassador in Pyongyang 19 Aug 20134 Jan 2018 [Updated on 4 January 2018; Schäfer is still in Pyongyang, as reported by Süddeutscher Zeitung.] On August 14, 2013, in Pyongyang, the 85-year-old leader Kim Yong-nam, himself only two weeks…
Borderlands… Studying Sino-North Korean Borderland Violence in Divided Ireland 6 Aug 2013 Ireland and Korea are not only connected, they are mutually illluminating. When an Irish Ambassador ventures off to Seoul — or to rural areas of North Korea — he or…
Cultural Politics… Moranbong: Following French Intellectuals to North Korea in 1958 22 Nov 2012 As I've completed a long article on the subject of Sino-French relations in the mid-1950s with a focus on the 1955 journey of Simone de Beauvoir to the People's Republic…
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…
Art… Rectified Criminal or Courageous Speech? Ai Weiwei in China and Germany 28 Jul 20124 Jul 2012 About two weeks after the disappearance of Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, the Huanqiu Shibao released a series of photographs of past criminals who had, through arduous years of “thought…
