Beijing… Anti-Japanese Protests in Beijing, and the History of Diaoyu Protests 15 Sep 2012 Three suitably breathless Global Times articles and photo galleries are linked below, but for a sane appraisal of at least part of what is going on, I recommend MIT professor M.…
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…
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,…
Art… Report from the Jianchuan Museum Cluster, Sichuan (Die Zeit) 17 Oct 201117 Oct 2011 Last year I made two trips to the Jianchuan Museum Cluster in Sichuan, the PRC's only private collection of museums and facilities which are completely ground-breaking in their somewhat individualistic…
China… Commemorating National Humiliation in China 18 Sep 2011 Today is September 18, 1931, at least in China, where the 80th anniversary of the incident which unleashed the Japanese Imperial Army to break off the entire northeast from the…
Chinese nationalism… California Swoop: Xinjiang Scholars and Hoover Papers 26 Aug 2011 I'm on the California northward swoop this afternoon, having spent yesterday at University of California-Irvine and today, thanks to a 3 a.m. start in Los Angeles and monumentally placid weather…
American Foreign Policy… Yuanhai Fangwei [远海防卫]: Observing China’s Navy 25 Aug 2011 Back in the American defense belt of Orange County, I'm reading Kissinger and reflecting on the extensive annual report to Congress from the Pentagon regarding Chinese military capabilities. The full…
Chinese communist party… Sino-Japanese Sehnsucht 7 Jul 2011 This post is my own small commemoration of July 7 in the Chinese context; it is a bit of a centaur in that the first half is rather traditional scholar-style…
East Asian modernity… Post-Soulevement 17 Mar 2011 The earthquake and subsequent tsunami that thrashed the northeastern Japanese coast has generated a great deal of thinking from me, not much of it coherent or of use to readers. …
Sino-Japanese Relations… Japanese War Crimes Blog 13 Feb 2011 A recent project of mine, with roots in the past... http://japanesewarcrimes.wordpress.com/
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