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Analysing the Limits of Soft Power in the Case of Ai Weiwei: Der Tagesspiegel
"Seek New Culture!" -- from Berlin Tacheles, photo by Adam Cathcart, April 2011 As promised, I am working my way through some of the prolix torrent of analysis and concern levied upon the case of Ai...
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Huanqiu Shibao on Ai Weiwei
[Update: A rather comprehensive analysis of Huanqiu’s Ai Weiwei coverage, as of April 8, can be found here via the scrupulous work of JustRecently.] Imagine my surprise, when, today, I opened my...
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Spring Cellist, Spring!
Leading the basso continuo on the Bach Concerto for Two Violins in D minor at the University of Washington, Seattle -- photo courtesy Seattle Metropolitan Chamber Orchestra With more to come about...
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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...
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“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...
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Notes on Sino-German Relations
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...
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Reevaluating Ai Weiwei: Guest Commentary
This guest posting comes from the sizzling keyboard of Paul Manfredi, head of the Chinese Studies Program at Pacific Lutheran University and the author of China Avant Garde, one of the Internet’s best...
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Shanghai Impressions, or, What Cellistic Ennui Tells Us about Cultural...
A few days in Shanghai rarely fails to reorient one immediately from wherever illusory place one has been prior. In Shanghai, China’s upward thrust is paired with its revolutionary guts, its past...
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Two New Essays on China Beat: Sino-German and Sino-Korean Relations
I’ve got a few more changes in store for Sinologistical Violoncellist in the new year (most of them involving the bass clef and Japan, not necessarily in that order), but in the meantime, readers may...
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transmediale buzz
The Berlin transmediale is, to my knowledge, one of the very best annual conferences (a “convergence” is more the appropriate word) which exist on Planet Earth. I was very fortunate to have been able...
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