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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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China’s Public Square Debate over Nuclear Power: Refracting Germany
Anti-Nuclear Protestors Storming Berlin's Brandenburg Gate, 29 May 2011; image courtesy Le Monde.fr Imagine my suprise to open the webpage of the Huanqiu Shibao this morning to find the headline...
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News from Berlin
First, thanks to everyone who came out today to hear my Berlin recital. I had a great time playing the Brahms Sonata No. 1 in E, and Schumann’s Fantasy Pieces and Five Pieces in Folk Style, with my...
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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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The Dalai Lama in Toulouse: On Soft Power, Le Pen, and Unfallen Shoes
Back in July, while on a late-night stroll through the 5th Arrdondisment looking for Rue Oberkampf, I chanced upon an announcement of the Dalai Lama’s mid-August trip to Toulouse, France, a city which...
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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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Cultural Power Battle Threads
From the May Fourth Generation to Today – The Telegraph reports in alarmist fashion about Hu Jintao warning, as the newspaper headline puts it, of “cultural warfare from the West” – A closer...
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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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Rectified Criminal or Courageous Speech? Ai Weiwei in China and Germany
About two weeks after the disappearance of Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, the Huanqiu Shibao released a series of photographs of past criminals who had, through arduous years of “thought reform,” found a...
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