Chinese communist party… Mao Zedong as a Father: Nianpu Notes from January 1951 19 Mar 201419 Mar 2014 In the six big volumes of Mao Zedong Nianpu (1949-1976) published in Beijing this past December 2013, a number of new texts can be located, and minor mysteries solved. I was fortunate…
Uncategorized Translations and Work Habits 16 Nov 2013 I was pleased to find a volunteer had translated my Atlantic essay on the Unhasu Orchestra's trip to Paris, and into Chinese, no less! Also, this is a fine essay on…
Cultural Politics… Tibet on the Horizon 13 Jul 2011 Chamdo in Paris Tonight, wandering north toward the Rue Oberkampf in search of my little home for the week in Belleville (Parisian Chinatown), I ran across a Tibetan restaurant known…
Chinese communist party… Kim Jong Il in China: PRC Media Tropes 20 May 201120 May 2011 If there's one thing we know about North Korea, it is that the DPRK is intensely mindful of how it is portrayed in foreign media. Scrutinizing its own international image…
American Foreign Policy… Kevin Garnett’s Chinese Blog 17 May 201117 May 2011 Boston Celtics superstar Kevin Garnett, I found out yesterday from undisclosed sources, has been maintaining a bilingual (English-Chinese) basketball blog which is very, very popular in the PRC. As described…
China… Zhu Feng on North Korea 4 Aug 201010 Jun 2014 Recently the Seoul newspaper Joongang Ilbo (中央日报) carried an intriguing item which hasn't received the attention it deserves: Zhu Feng [朱锋], a professor at the School of International Studies at…
China… Merkel in the Middle Kingdom//German State Reports on China//经济合作，人权批评：近日的中德关系 18 Jul 2010 If Sino-German relations cross your radar screen as a topic of significance, then it is certainly worth your time to read JustRecently's link-rich roundup of the recent state visit to…
China… Robert Park in the Chinese Press 6 Feb 20109 Feb 2010 American human rights rhetoric about North Korea tends to rest upon a self-sustaining paradox: in the view of vocal bloggers and conservative newspapers, the Chinese Communist Party is guilty of…
German… “They Have Guns, and I, a Pen”: Highly Valuable New Source on the Tibetan Rebellion 16 Oct 200916 Oct 2009 This 297-page first-person account of the Tibetan uprising of spring 2008 is being published, like, today, in Germany: Tsering Woeser is a Tibetan writer and blogger. Her book is being…
North Korean border region Correcting the Record on News from the Border Zone 5 Oct 20095 Oct 2009 Justification Regular sources of information from the Chinese-North Korean border zone are difficult to come by. The Daily NK is one of the more abundant, and apparently reliable sources, that…
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