Tag: Sino-German relations

Art, Beijing, Chinese Avant-Garde, Chinese communist party, Cultural Politics, EU-East Asia relations, German, history and memory, Sino-German Relations, War Crimes, World War II

“Hitler’s Stomach” in Beijing: A Review

Today in Berlin, I was cruising through the Frankfurt Allgemeine Zeitung, the businessman’s preferred paper, for German response to the Wen Jiabao visit when I ran across an article so completely fascinating that I decided to translate it for inclusion on the blog, as it actually adds something new to the giant slapping waves of somewhat repetitious commentary in the area of China’s relations with Germany. … Continue reading “Hitler’s Stomach” in Beijing: A Review

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Art, Beijing, China, Chinese Avant-Garde, Cultural Politics, EU-East Asia relations, German, Sino-German Relations

Ai Weiwei and Sino-German Relations

For the last two months, a stack of German newspapers and internet print-outs about the case of Ai Weiwei seems to have accrued first in my bags in Berlin and Paris and then in my offices in Seattle and Tacoma.  What a treasure-trove of perceptions and misperceptions, opportunity and loss, of connection do these papers constitute!  In a fantasy world that demands little more than … Continue reading Ai Weiwei and Sino-German Relations

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Art, Beijing, China, Chinese Avant-Garde, Chinese communist party, Chinese nationalism, Cultural Politics, EU-East Asia relations, German, Huanqiu Shibao, Op-Ed, Sino-German Relations

Enlightenment, Cell, Studio: Beijing, Berlin, and Ai Weiwei

In its typically understated fashion of reasserting totalitarian facts, the Chinese government appears to have arrested the dissident provocateur Ai Weiwei in Beijing.  (Hat tip to Evan Osnos in Beijing for the full story.) The timing of the arrest is a bit curious.  What serves as a trigger for such an arrest, after all, particularly given that this action seemed to be the work of … Continue reading Enlightenment, Cell, Studio: Beijing, Berlin, and Ai Weiwei

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