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…
China… Celebrating the National Day Holiday Week in the PRC 3 Oct 2011 Just when you think that China has completely exhausted its capacity to surprise you, the hard-line foreign policy tabloid Huanqiu Shibao sends a reporter to cover an S & M-themed…
Korean War… Muzzle the Scholars Who Blight the Treaties, or, Why Korean-Chinese Scholars Shouldn’t Talk About Kim Jong-Il 28 Feb 201128 Feb 2011 [Note: This essay is read aloud by the author here.] China's information environment with regard to North Korea has become increasingly free-wheeling since the stunning nuclear test of May 25,…
Cultural Politics… Censorship Stories, or, How the WSJ Made Global Times More Boring 18 Mar 201018 Mar 2010 The Wall Street Journal "China Real Time Report" is one of the more comprehensive group blogs out there about the PRC, and this WSJ piece by Lu Yiyi on the…
American Foreign Policy… Mizutani Naoko and Xinjiang Updates / 水谷尚子和新疆消息 2 Mar 20102 Mar 2010 As was described on this blog on Sunday, Japanese scholar Mizutani Naoko was barred from entering China on Feb. 27 on account of Chinese apprehension toward her activities in support…
China… Fearful Symmetry: ‘Book Burning’ in Nanjing, Pyongyang, and Tokyo 21 Feb 201021 Feb 2010 I just want to make a brief note of a symmetry that recently crossed my desk on the subject of book looting and burning in and after World War II…
China… US-China Scuffles 2 Feb 2010 An outbreak of Korea-related materials have the present author slightly detained at the moment, but one can't help but notice the sharp deterioration of public rhetoric in the US-China relationship.…
German… “They Have Guns, and I, a Pen”: Highly Valuable New Source on the Tibetan Rebellion 16 Oct 200916 Oct 2009 This 297-page first-person account of the Tibetan uprising of spring 2008 is being published, like, today, in Germany: Tsering Woeser is a Tibetan writer and blogger. Her book is being…
China… Locking Down Beijing [II] 27 Sep 2009 Philippe Grangereau, Liberation’s insightful envoy in China, recently published another fascinating dispatch from Beijing. On 24 September, underneath a striking photo of Chinese policemen in black training large German shepherds…
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