Cultural Politics… Notes on North Korean Musical Exchanges and Internal Narratives 30 Mar 20186 Apr 2018 A lot of people seem to be interested in North Korean cultural diplomacy these days, so the (often peer-reviewed/probably badly flawed/usually enormously fun) work which I have been doing on…
Art… Resources on North Korean Music Diplomacy 21 Jan 201821 Jan 2018 One strand of my ongoing academic work as a historian of Northeast Asia concerns music and cultural diplomacy in and by North Korea. My published online work on this…
Chinese communist party… Journalist Expulsions and Beijing’s Counterterrorism Narrative 26 Jan 2016 2015 was supposedly a triumphant year for the Chinese Communist Party, but the CCP seemed determined to end the year on a landslide of insecurity with respect to the foreign journalists…
Borderlands… New Koguryo Research in Pyongyang, or, How to Revive a Historical Dispute on China’s National Day 3 Oct 2014 It doesn't take much skill at reading tea-leaves in Chinese or English to recognize that Kim Jong-un's letter of congratulations to Xi Jinping, Li Keqiang, and Zhang Dejiang on the…
Cultural Politics… Reading North Korea’s Explosive Critique of ‘Opposite Number’ 31 Aug 201422 Sep 2014 While some sections of North Korea's Foreign Ministry and various Friendship associations were in middle of a major operation to woo foreign audiences via wrestling, Kim Jong-un was tending to the…
Sino-North Korean relations… Keeping China in Check: How North Korea Manages its Relationship with a Superpower 1 Aug 2014 The following essay was published at the China Policy Institute blog, University of Nottingham, on 28 July 2014 (link). Around the world today, knowing how and when to deflect the…
Cultural Politics… Inter-Korean Sports Diplomacy: Comment in the Washington Post 7 Jul 20148 Jul 2014 Adam Taylor runs a key foreign affairs blog for the Washington Post. Today he was kind enough to ask for my views on this story of his about North Korea…
Music… String Crossings: Tracking the Evolution of North Korea’s Moranbong Band 25 Apr 201425 Apr 2014 One of the advantages of staying at the top North Korean hotel in Shenyang, the Chilbosan, is that the nightly broadcasts from Pyongyang are available in real time. Earlier this…
Chinese communist party… New Publication Up: China Policy Institute Blog (Nottingham) 1 Apr 2014 My new essay focusing on Wu Dawei's diplomacy in North Korea, entitled "Tuning Out Beijing's Six-Party Drumbeat," was posted today at the CPI blog.
Cultural Politics… String Repertoire and Cultural Diplomacy in Northeast Asia 21 Jan 2014 My latest column for The Daily NK delves into these questions, with reference to the New York Philharmonic's visit to Pyongyang in 2008 and notions of cultural openness today.
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