Tibet The Dalai Lama in Europe 21 Aug 201720 Aug 2017 The following cohesive work ended up on the cutting-room floor just prior to the publication of my essay “Dalai Lama struggles to retain influence over troubled Tibet,” The Irish Times (Dublin),…
Borderlands… Borderlands in Asia and Beyond: Readings 20 Jan 2017 Moving toward a text dealing with the Chinese-Korean border region, I have been catching up on my borderlands studies literature readings, some of which I aim to share in this…
Borderlands… Regional Government and Political Integration in Southwest China, 1949-1954: A Review 27 Jun 2015 Dorothy J. Solinger: Regional Government and Political Integration in Southwest China, 1949-1954: A Case Study. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977. Review by Li Wankun, University of Leeds In traditional…
China… On Reincarnation 13 Mar 2015 As everyone knows, the Chinese Communist Party is fully committed to reincarnating itself as the Qing dynasty, but with more aircraft carriers and a Communist Dalai Lama who tells choking…
Tibet Dalai Lama in Northern Ireland: Notes on the Situation in Tibet [Updated] 18 Apr 201326 Dec 2015 This essay was originally published as "Dalai Lama struggles to retain influence over troubled Tibet," The Irish Times (Dublin), April 22, 2012, p. 14. Northern Ireland is a long way from…
China… Documenting Claims of China’s “Charm Diplomacy” 4 Jul 2012 A recent essay on Chinese “soft power” written not by a US-trained academic, but from within China, provides a chance to find fissures between how and why China is using…
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,…
Chinese communist party… 33 Questions About the Cultural Revolution in Tibet 12 Nov 201112 Nov 2011 The key point of departure for today's discussion is the text On the Cultural Revolution in Tibet: The Nyemo Incident of 1969, co-authored by Melvyn Goldstein (Case Western Reserve University), Ben…
Cultural Politics… Plateau Rouge: On the Cultural Revolution in Tibet (2) 7 Nov 20119 Nov 2011 A few weeks ago, I finally received my copy of the new French translation of Tibetan writer Woeser’s text of oral histories on the Cultural Revolution in Tibet. This past…
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,…
