Japan… Sinologistical Violoncellist China Media Review – Feb. 15, 2011 16 Feb 201120 Feb 2011 Today's focus: Sino-North Korean relations, with tidbits about border security, a North Korean diplomatic visit to France, and the ongoing consequences of Mubarak's fall in Northeast Asia. Link to the…
American Foreign Policy… 网民网民网民:Netizen Niblets from Huanqiu 29 Jan 20106 May 2021 It seems that Huanqiu Shibao's headlines are increasingly drawing upon the angst and ardor of the "netizens," or wang min / 网民 of China. Such as the top headline for…
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…
China… The Yanan Spirit of Journalism 19 Nov 200919 Nov 2009 A few short days ago, Barack Obama was in Shanghai surfing on the edge of the Great Firewall of China, his calm demeanor belying the clangor he was re-initiating over…
Cultural Politics… Germany Commemorates, China Forgets 29 Oct 200929 Oct 2009 The Chinese Communist Party seems intent on preventing any spillover from Europe's orgy of commemorations of 1989. China Daily has featured just a small handful articles about German reunification in…
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"…
China… Update from Beijing 13 Jun 2009 At the moment, Seattle, Paris, and Berlin are all in the rear-view miror; the author of Sinologistical Violoncellist has moved shop to Beijing, China. While many advantages accrue to one…