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Category: Sino-French Relations

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…
Cultural Politics…

Consecrated: New French Embassy in Beijing

11 Nov 2011
The next time you encounter someone caterwauling about the rapid expansion of Chinese cultural institutions abroad, Chinese companies taking over contracts in Algeria, or complaining about the size of the…
Chinese communist party…

The Dalai Lama in Toulouse: On Soft Power, Le Pen, and Unfallen Shoes

4 Sep 2011
Back in July, while on a late-night stroll through the 5th Arrdondisment looking for Rue Oberkampf, I chanced upon an announcement of the Dalai Lama's mid-August trip to Toulouse, France,…
Sino-French Relations

Three Miniatures on Sino-French Parallels, Relations

2 May 20112 May 2011
Rooting around in the proverbial cellar of this castle in the sky/blog, I came across three essays involving, more or less, Jean-Paul Sartre and his reception in the PRC. https://adamcathcart.wordpress.com/2009/05/17/sartre-cultures-of-defeat/ …
Art…

Catching Up on French Reports from China

25 Apr 201125 Apr 2011
Today, prepping a piece on Ai Weiwei in the German press, I popped a few dozen links (beginning with my own "European Sources on East Asia" in my homepage sidebar)…
China…

Sino-French Soliloquies

4 Feb 2011
Word counts don't mean so much at the end of the day, the release of a big article manuscript into the hands of a capable editor should always be grounds…
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…
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…
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…
American Foreign Policy…

Study in Contrasts: US and France Regard the Shanghai Expo

15 May 201020 May 2010
I spent part of this weekend watching American diplomats on C-SPAN describing how great everything is going at the American pavilion at the Shanghai Expo.   Hillary Clinton, having tactfully…

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