China… Sino-French Soliloquies 4 Feb 2011 Word counts don't mean so much at the end of the day, the release of a big article manuscript into the hands of a capable editor should always be grounds…
EU-East Asia relations… Little Tremors in Sino-French Relations: Violence in 19th Arrondissement 20 Jun 201021 Jun 2010 [Update: Liberation has the most comprehensive overview so far available (in French, bien sûr).] Like me, you might have thought that you could just forget for a while about Sino-French…
French… This Ain’t Dallas: NYT on Seattle Teriyaki 11 Jan 2010 This is, sadly, no food blog, but the following article from the New York Times has been giving me a great deal of joy lately and I thought I'd share:…
North Korea More Photos of North Korean Life 5 Jan 20105 Jan 2010 Alain Nogues, photojournalist, has a smorgasbord of images of North Korea on his homepage (click on the "2000s") in anticipation of an exhibition this month in Paris. Here's part of…
French… Bismarckian Musical Nationalism: Modern Fallout 15 Dec 200916 Dec 2009 On a day when the Chinese Vice-Premier is meeting with the Japanese leadership, it seems appropriate to think about reconciling remaining differences from the Second World War. From my perspective…
China… Rebiya Khadeer in Western Europe 14 Dec 200914 Dec 2009 Ribiya Khadeer may have been rejected from a visit to the isle of Taiwan, but she continues to move internationally and stir discussion of Chinese policies in Xinjiang. This past…
Chinese communist party… “Red Princess” at the Debutante Ball, Paris 7 Dec 20097 Dec 2009 Le Figaro's always-divergent China blog carries a high-society/CCP mash-up with a recent entry regarding Jasmine Li, the youngest daughter of Jia Qinglin, No. 4 in the Party hierarchy and one…
Sino-French Relations New Work on Sino-French Relations in the 1950s 18 Aug 2009 One of the most enjoyable things I get to do in the summer is to travel to archives and research facilities in various countries to seek out new sources which…
Pensee Victory 19 Jul 200922 Jul 2009 Victory is doing good things you never thought you could do. Sunbeams strike the carrefour here in this foreign land, and, amid stone chambers, shapely vowels, the ungeheurerlich complexities of…
French… 巴黎巴黎 30 May 200931 May 2009 巴黎，永远与隆重欢迎无睡之胜利者 今天它躺着如个破碎闪光预言者 云海哲学家查阅姹紫嫣红的油画词典 （是什么知识女神创造 les feutillons disparu？） 我让他们批评我的痴心妄想，但口不开 -- mon solitude, glorieuse et taillé du vert le plus profond, reviens encore -- 所以我恩恩鼓励自己，精心精心精心做您的任务，avec soigneusement preparée les course, gagne la vie…
Adam Cathcart 