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…
Uncategorized Othello in Pyongyang: Reading North Korea in the German Archives, circa 1950-1977 4 Sep 2015 The relationship between East Germany and North Korea was not simply a curiosity of the Cold War; it was a relationship with tangible results, interactions, and ideals. Here are some…
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…
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.
EU-East Asia relations… New German Ambassador in Pyongyang 19 Aug 20134 Jan 2018 [Updated on 4 January 2018; Schäfer is still in Pyongyang, as reported by Süddeutscher Zeitung.] On August 14, 2013, in Pyongyang, the 85-year-old leader Kim Yong-nam, himself only two weeks…
Cultural Politics… Moranbong: Following French Intellectuals to North Korea in 1958 22 Nov 2012 As I've completed a long article on the subject of Sino-French relations in the mid-1950s with a focus on the 1955 journey of Simone de Beauvoir to the People's Republic…
China… JR’s China Soft Power Summary, July 2012 23 Aug 2012 This guest post comes to SinoMondiale via JustRecently. It's frequently hard to believe for a nationalist that his or her country may not project as much "soft power" abroad as…
Cultural Politics… North Korean Opera in Chengdu 27 Jun 2012 Last night I attended the performance of "The Flower Girl" staged by the Pibada Ensemble from North Korea. (They are better known as the Sea of Blood Opera Troupe.) I…
Art… Cultural Power Battle Threads 3 Jan 20123 Jan 2012 - The Telegraph reports in alarmist fashion about Hu Jintao warning, as the newspaper headline puts it, of "cultural warfare from the West" - A closer examination of the story…
Cello Commemorating 9/11 in Berlin 14 Sep 201114 Sep 2011 I spent last weekend in Berlin, the main purpose being to perform at the 9/11 Commemoration Service at the American Church in Berlin organized by the U.S. Embassy there. Along…
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