Art… Report from the Jianchuan Museum Cluster, Sichuan (Die Zeit) 17 Oct 201117 Oct 2011 Last year I made two trips to the Jianchuan Museum Cluster in Sichuan, the PRC's only private collection of museums and facilities which are completely ground-breaking in their somewhat individualistic…
American Foreign Policy… Assessing U.S.-China Competition After the Hu Jintao Visit 25 Feb 201112 Mar 2011 What follows is a straight-up reading of Matthias Nass' op-ed in Die Zeit recalibrating the US-China relationship, with special reference to debt and national security, and Hu Jintao in Washington.…
Art… “We Are the Better West”:German Architecture Critic on Dubai’s New Tower of Babel 19 Jan 201031 Jul 2011 The other night I encountered a stupendous, if somewhat Chicken-Little-esque, review by Hanno Rauterberg in Die Zeit about the Burj Khalifa, the world's new tallest building. Of interest here is…
Chinese Avant-Garde… Smashing Chunks from the Great Firewall in Berlin / Ai Weiwei in Munich 28 Oct 200929 Oct 2009 A great convergence is occuring again between Germany and China. As the 9 November anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall ("der Mauerfall" / "le chute de la Mur")…
China… Remembering Tiananmen and 1989 in Europe [1] 19 Jul 200922 Jul 2009 June 4, 1989 may lay buried under new epochs already, but the meaning of that date for China and its observers is clearly going to continue reverberate for decades. The…
American Foreign Policy… Uighurs in Guantanamo – Will Nine Go to Munich? 19 May 200924 May 2009 Hamburg's Die Zeit features a brace of editorials debating if Germany should accept the request of the Obama administration to take 9 of the 17 remaining Uighur detainees from Camp…
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