Chinese communist party… Sino-Japanese Sehnsucht 7 Jul 2011 This post is my own small commemoration of July 7 in the Chinese context; it is a bit of a centaur in that the first half is rather traditional scholar-style…
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…
Cultural Politics… On the Events in Egypt 11 Feb 201111 Feb 2011 I ride a train some mornings, hurtling south in darkness toward the port of Tacoma, past shadowed bridges, around fields glazed with frost, through tentative and unheard bird songs. Today,…
Huanqiu Shibao… Egypt, China, and 1989 2 Feb 20112 Feb 2011 Prisms matter. From which perspective are you watching the events in Cairo and across Egypt? For myself, the vantage point this week has been Berlin, Germany, where the dominant hope,…
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…
history and memory… Events in Pyongyang 10 Oct 201011 Oct 2010 Yesterday the Korean Workers' Party in Pyongyang celebrated its 65th anniversary with an immense parade that included an appearance by the new big man on campus and the putative successor,…
China… CCTV Coverage of Baghdad Bombing 5 Apr 20105 Apr 2010 Watching CCTV should be a serious pastime for someone like myself, but I tend not to have it on as often as I should. However, last night's dramatic rescue of…
Cultural Politics… The Chinese Century Means Xinhua Critiques of Indian Reservations in USA / 美国也有少数民族矛盾 30 Jan 2010 It's about time Xinhua sent some reporters to Indian reservations in New Mexico: Since the phrase "interference in our internal affairs" isn't quite a specific part of the American vocabulary,…
Uncategorized Excellent Resource: DPRK TV on YouTube 8 Jan 20108 Jan 2010 I have had the signal pleasure of running across a few YouTube snippets from Korean Central Television before on that Zeitgeist-friendly medium of YouTube, but the site maintained by this…
Sino-North Korean relations… Verdant Parks and Skimpy Harvests from North Korea 2 Nov 20092 Nov 2009 Yesterday, Xinhua graciously carried a photogallery of autumn scenery in Pyongyang. If this counts as propaganda, call me aware of my own complicity; but also be content just to enjoy…
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