China Deng Xiaoping as Cultural Conservative 22 Aug 201519 Jun 2015 Today is Deng Xiaoping's birthday. He was born in 1904 in Guang'an, Sichuan, a city now receiving various and not entirely uncontroversial forms of capital as a result. Consequently, I am…
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…
Uncategorized China’s Soft Power Strategy and the DPRK 21 Jan 2014 Is North Korea, as Joseph Nye once apparently argued, “immune” from soft power and persuasion? In a recent North Korea Review article, Steven Denney and I argue that the DRPK…
China… JR’s Soft Power Summary 5 Jul 201212 Sep 2012 In what I anticipate will be an ongoing feature to strengthen the cultural diplomacy and Chinese "soft power" profile on this site, SinoMondiale will be carrying some periodic summaries of…
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… Lux Sinica: China’s Civilizing Influence in North Korea 17 Jun 201117 Jun 2011 It takes more than a few days, or perhaps a few weeks, to sift through all the reports, speculation, and rumors surrounding Kim Jong Il’s “new deal” with China. At…
Art… Enlightenment, Cell, Studio: Beijing, Berlin, and Ai Weiwei 4 Apr 20114 Apr 2011 In its typically understated fashion of reasserting totalitarian facts, the Chinese government appears to have arrested the dissident provocateur Ai Weiwei in Beijing. (Hat tip to Evan Osnos in Beijing…
Art… Successful Musical Diplomacy 1 Sep 20091 Sep 2009 One area of research competence and interest for me involves musical diplomacy, particularly as it has effected the US-China bilateral relationship. I spoke about the topic at this State Department…
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