American Foreign Policy… George H.W. Bush in Mao’s China 1 Dec 20181 Dec 2018 With the death of George H.W. Bush, it is an opportune time to look back at his time as the top U.S. diplomat in Beijing in the immediate aftermath…
Chinese Avant-Garde… Notes on Sino-German Relations 1 Jul 2011 Mark Siemons, who is rapidly becoming one of my favorite correspondents in Beijing, has another piece in yesterday's Frankfurter Allegemeine Zeitung. Ironically entitled "Deutschland ist eigentlich ein zweites China in…
Art… Analysing the Limits of Soft Power in the Case of Ai Weiwei: Der Tagesspiegel 15 Apr 201116 Apr 2011 As promised, I am working my way through some of the prolix torrent of analysis and concern levied upon the case of Ai Weiwei by authors in Germany, and by…
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…
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