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Music is Dead? Whatever.
The New York Times carries a completely redact-worthy essay by composer Glenn Branca, entitled “The End of Music?” Apparently the only people who write music that matters live in Malibu a… more →
Sinologistical Violoncellist
Music is Dead? Whatever.
adamcathcart wrote 4 days ago: The New York Times carries a completely redact-worthy essay by composer Glenn Branca, entitled … more →
Connections
storypeople wrote 1 week ago: EDIT: Hi! We just found out there are actually a few signed prints available – which is SUP … more →
Video Games in NK
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adamcathcart wrote 1 week ago: Gaming bloggers in Great Britain, aka UK Resistance, have posted a photo gallery of a summertime vid … more →
Obama in Shanghai / 奥巴马在上海，第一
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adamcathcart wrote 1 week ago: Finally, a story worth reading about Obama’s trip to China. And for the record, it’s nor … more →
A Frenchman in Pyongyang
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adamcathcart wrote 2 weeks ago: While Anglophone Korea-watchers are checking up on U.S. envoy Stephen Bosworth’s itinerary and … more →
North Korea's New Spin on the Abduction Issue: Cue 1592
adamcathcart wrote 2 weeks ago: In sifting through some earlier KCNA reports from Pyongyang, I came across this somewhat fascinating … more →
France's Nordpolitik: Jack Lang, French Communists, and French-North Korean Relations
adamcathcart wrote 3 weeks ago: Sarkozy’s special envoy to North Korea, Jack Lang, is today en route to Pyongyang. And thus th … more →
Mickey Mouse Gets 20 Years in Chongqing, Mudfight in Oakland, and other news
adamcathcart wrote 3 weeks ago: The Chosun Ilbo gives some coverage of an Asian economic conference that just completed in the Liaod … more →
Civil War Stops for a Day in Mexico to Celebrate Chinese Unity
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adamcathcart wrote 3 weeks ago: For all the bellyaching by various Western commentors (including myself) about the various distortio … more →
Bridge Blogging He Jian
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adamcathcart wrote 3 weeks ago: Danwei.org recently carried a very thought-provoking lecture by the Chinese heavy-metal (and now med … more →
Gay marriage
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Andrew wrote 3 weeks ago: Nothing pleasing or pleasant (or really unexpected) to report from yesterday’s election news, … more →
Germany Commemorates, China Forgets
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adamcathcart wrote 1 month ago: Chinese Rock Band performs at the German Embassy in Beijing, October 3, 2009 The Chinese Communist P … more →
Smashing Chunks from the Great Firewall in Berlin / Ai Weiwei in Munich
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adamcathcart wrote 1 month ago: A great convergence is occuring again between Germany and China. As the 9 November anniversary of t … more →
Soft Power Fiddling Meets Open-Throat Singing: Big Goings-On in New York
adamcathcart wrote 1 month ago: Yesterday the Sunday New York Times suddenly became worth its asking price of $6 by carrying a large … more →
Further Assessment of the Iris Chang Papers
adamcathcart wrote 1 month ago: Iris Chang was an intensely productive, in her words, “almost obsessive” individual, and … more →
Pink Cinema Revolution: The Radical Films of Koji Wakamatsu
adamcathcart wrote 1 month ago: Several films, grouped under the title of this post, are being shown this weekend, for the first tim … more →
Blogging from San Francisco
adamcathcart wrote 1 month ago: For the next few days, I’m in San Francisco (旧金山) primarily taking care of some research at St … more →
Disrobing the disrobers (1)
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James Bell wrote 1 month ago: The book that launched a thousand shrieks. You can log on to Amazon today and for only $20.76 you ca … more →
China's Cultural Diplomacy Offensive
adamcathcart wrote 1 month ago: The growth of Chinese “soft power” in the modern era is one of the great stories of our … more →
