American Foreign Policy… Bibliotheque Blast Out #4: United Nations Library, Geneva 1 Apr 20111 Apr 2011 With but nine minutes to go and up against a French keyboard in the UN Library and Archives in Geneva, Switzerland, a few thoughts: - Yosuke Matsuoka is a tough…
French… China Media Review, 16 Feburary 2011 18 Feb 201120 Feb 2011 I took the day off from media reviewing, but thought that I might share yesterday's short video, which has stories about Xinjiang, Tibet, and American broadcasts into China. It runs…
Cultural Politics… On the Events in Egypt 11 Feb 201111 Feb 2011 I ride a train some mornings, hurtling south in darkness toward the port of Tacoma, past shadowed bridges, around fields glazed with frost, through tentative and unheard bird songs. Today,…
Cello… No Silence for the Unsubjugated: Woeser in the Parisian Press 17 Jan 201120 Jan 2011 Han ideograms of self-praise tattoo the walls of the echo chamber of the PRC; millions of yuan are tilted downward as if out of dump trucks, rushing into the cultural…
China… Chinese Troops in North Korea? 17 Jan 2011 On the eve of Hu Jintao's visit to Washington, D.C., the Chosun Ilbo releases an explosive report that Chinese troops have moved into the Rason Special Economic Zone on Korea's…
French… A Moveable Feast of Sino-French Links 7 Jan 20118 Jan 2011 Particularly as we lay siege to a new year, one in which I hope this blog can increasingly function as a kind of open workshop, a mediation on hope may…
China… Mémoire interdite: New Source on the Cultural Revolution in Tibet 3 Jan 201111 Jan 2013 This past few months in Chengdu and in my October foray into Tibet, I often found myself wondering where I could get more solid documentation on the impact of the…
Cultural Politics… Crashing the “Chinese Wave”? Interview with Hanban Head 12 Jul 201012 Jul 2010 The following story was originally published in a Singapore paper, but it's still nice to read it in the Huanqiu Shibao/Global Times, as it plays to the best sense of that…
China… Recommended Reading 7 Jul 2010 Having slipped Berlin's affectionate bonds and grappled through Helsinki, I'm now ensconced in Seoul, a city for which it is almost impossible to prepare properly. And so all my aspirations…
EU-East Asia relations… Little Tremors in Sino-French Relations: Violence in 19th Arrondissement 20 Jun 201021 Jun 2010 [Update: Liberation has the most comprehensive overview so far available (in French, bien sûr).] Like me, you might have thought that you could just forget for a while about Sino-French…
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