China… Rebiya Khadeer in Western Europe 14 Dec 200914 Dec 2009 Ribiya Khadeer may have been rejected from a visit to the isle of Taiwan, but she continues to move internationally and stir discussion of Chinese policies in Xinjiang. This past…
Chinese communist party… “Red Princess” at the Debutante Ball, Paris 7 Dec 20097 Dec 2009 Le Figaro's always-divergent China blog carries a high-society/CCP mash-up with a recent entry regarding Jasmine Li, the youngest daughter of Jia Qinglin, No. 4 in the Party hierarchy and one…
Art… Koreans in Europe, Europeans in Korea 11 Oct 200911 Oct 2009 The Canadian Press reports on the North Korean soccer team spending time in hospitable French city of Nantes. (Thanks to Joshua Stanton at One Free Korea for dredging this one…
China… China’s Cultural Diplomacy Offensive 9 Oct 20099 Oct 2009 The growth of Chinese "soft power" in the modern era is one of the great stories of our day. Why? Because it inspires fear! This short clip from the popular…
China… Rounding up East Asian News in the French Press 25 Sep 200926 Sep 2009 French Vigilance to Beijing's October 1 Preparations Robert Neville reports in the French newsweekly L'Express about heightened security measures in Beijing in the leadup to the October 1 commemoration of…
Art… Endorsement 14 Sep 2009 It's been a few weeks, but I returned to JustRecently's Beautiful Blog this evening and can confirm that he is completely on fire / en fuego. For God's sake, the…
Sino-French Relations New Work on Sino-French Relations in the 1950s 18 Aug 2009 One of the most enjoyable things I get to do in the summer is to travel to archives and research facilities in various countries to seek out new sources which…
Sino-French Relations Francophone Sinology 6 Aug 20096 Aug 2009 The Quebec government is actively developing relations with China (independent of Ottawa, as usual). An interesting research question might be to interrogate if Quebec benefits from, or is harmed by,…
China… Things I was going to explain before July finished [I] 1 Aug 20092 Aug 2009 I was going to explain how the CCP is launching a new English-language magazine called Qiushi to bolster its theoretical marketability and soft power among the mild left of North…
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