Art… transmediale buzz 7 Feb 2012 The Berlin transmediale is, to my knowledge, one of the very best annual conferences (a "convergence" is more the appropriate word) which exist on Planet Earth. I was very fortunate…
Chinese nationalism… Huntsman in Global Times Terrain, and Republican Foreign Policy 23 Nov 201123 Nov 2011 Mainly for the hell of it, I recently spent $4 (about 26 RMB) on a big red "Jon Huntsman for President 2012" bumper sticker. It arrived in my mailbox, and…
Beijing… Chinese Pluck: Must-Read Material on ‘Jasmine Revolution’ 22 Feb 2011 Amid the bad news from Libya, one really needs to be keeping an eye on China and developments there. On February 21, a few abortive demonstrations were broken up by…
North Korean border region… Border News 中朝边防 30 Jan 2010 North Koreans in border regions are doing more military drills than usual (click here for Chinese version), but so too are their counterparts on the Chinese side of the border. In…
East Asian modernity… 10,000 Chinese Netizens Know Curtis Melvin, Google Earth North Korea 16 Jan 2010 Amid the obligatory fury at the Chinese government for restricting the flow of information into China, it's worth noting that articles like this one are increasing in prevalence: a Tianya…
Chinese nationalism… Anti-Japanese Action on the Chinese Internet 15 Oct 200916 Oct 2009 Some of us had hopes for a broader improvement in Sino-Japanese relations with the arrival of the Hatoyama government and the recession of the LDP into minority status. After all,…
China ReadRoidRage 12 Oct 200912 Oct 2009 In honor of the baseball playoffs in the United States, I thought I might just recommend a few hundred pages of reading for those intrepid souls for whom Monday means…
China CCP Senstitive to Domestic Criticism of “Internet Boot Camps” 26 Aug 200926 Aug 2009 Boot camp death story costs editor his post Ivan Zhai South China Morning Post 26 Aug 2009 A deputy editor of a Guangxi newspaper was dismissed by provincial propaganda authorities…
China Chinese Citizen Mistaken for Corrupt Official 26 Aug 200926 Aug 2009 Website to offer apology over mistaken-identity photograph Ni Yinbin Shanghai Daily 26 Aug 2009 NETEASE, one of China’s biggest portal Websites, said yesterday that it was willing to apologize for…
China… Hu Jintao 1984 = Hu Jintao 2009 17 Jul 200918 Jul 2009 For reasons which will be made clear to me only gradually, yesterday I managed to pull a 9-5 shift at the Bundesarchiv in Berlin. I say "will gradually become clear"…
