Cultural Politics… Oprah vs. Juche: Reviewing the Laura Ling/Euna Lee North Korea Memoirs 15 Sep 201211 Oct 2012 Brian Gleason is a young analyst of North Korean refugee issues and international studies at Yonsei University in Seoul. Through his work on the site SinoNK.com, Gleason and I connected,…
Art… Blockages and Breakthroughts: Cultural Diplomacy and North Korea 23 Feb 2012 [A cross-post of an essay which I posted on SinoNK.com. -- AC] Yesterday, Corée_Actualités launched a short missive which functioned as a kind of bouleversement of the normal: a 90-member delegation of the DPRK's…
Chinese Avant-Garde… Two New Essays on China Beat: Sino-German and Sino-Korean Relations 23 Dec 2011 I've got a few more changes in store for Sinologistical Violoncellist in the new year (most of them involving the bass clef and Japan, not necessarily in that order), but…
My Publications… A Note for North Korea Readers: Launching SinoNK 20 Dec 2011 Amid the proliferation of China-related blogs on the Web, it is hoped that this blog has a place -- be it stable, intermittent, annoyed, essential or otherwise -- on your…
Cultural Politics… Notions of Incompleteness and Hope: Fragments for Future Appropriation 1 Dec 2011 In his compact yet epic collection of short stories entitled Men Without Women, American writer Ernest Hemingway describes an Italian major who, bereft of a limb and then his wife,…
My Publications… A Few Things I am Working On 27 Sep 20111 Oct 2011 In the tradition of City Lights Books and Lawrence Ferlinghetti's "I Am Waiting," I am working very slowly on a process and I am working on re-acquiring the previously acquired…
Cultural Politics… Tibet on the Horizon 13 Jul 2011 Chamdo in Paris Tonight, wandering north toward the Rue Oberkampf in search of my little home for the week in Belleville (Parisian Chinatown), I ran across a Tibetan restaurant known…
My Publications… Hello Boston 25 Jun 201126 Jun 2011 I have had a pleasant few days in Berlin corresponding with the editors at MIT Press and Harvard in getting my new article primed for publication. Please be on the…
Cultural Politics… Scaling the Plateau: A Tibet Abstract, and Three Publication Opportunities for Scholars of All Ages 1 Jun 2011 Somewhat excited by the emergence of the Association of Nepal and Himalayan Studies, its scholarly journal Himalaya, and anxious to further connect with colleages at outstanding Macalaster College, I figured it…
My Publications Open Studio for May 1 May 2011 This month at Sinologistical Violoncellist is going to be governed by the principle that readers should find a place -- and a voice -- in this weblog, etching out a…
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