American Foreign Policy… Obedient, Intransigent North Korea in the Chinese Media 22 Dec 201022 Dec 2010 Thanks to the ever-productive Joshua Stanton at the very useful but hopelessly Anglophone (and somewhat impervious) command post for North Korean counter-revolution known as One Free Korea, I got motivated…
Cultural Politics… North Korea’s World Cup: German-Language Resources 20 Jun 201020 Jun 2010 German views of Korea are always worth a listen, and will be for the foreseeable future. After all, Germany knows all about national division and dealing with communist legacies, and…
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…
Art… East Asia and the Eco-polis 31 May 20095 Jun 2009 In the following article [“Road Toward the Ecopolis: In Architecture, Art and Design, Environmental Knowledge [Bewusstsein] Will Take On New Aesthetic Worth”], which I translate here, author Eva Karcher describes…