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Hamlet Goes to Anyuan
It may be because I’m mired in CultRev art, but I can’t help but see a marked similarity between RSC publicity for David Tennant’s Hamlet, and Mao Goes to Anyuan…… more →
Cogs and Wheels: The material culture of revolutionary China
Hamlet Goes to Anyuan
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amyjaneb wrote 1 year ago: It may be because I’m mired in CultRev art, but I can’t help but see a marked similarity … more →
A younger, thinner, taller Hu Jintao
amyjaneb wrote 1 year ago: Ah, the art of propaganda is alive and well in contemporary China, I see. [Via Danwei] … more →
The rights and wrongs of contemporary Sinophilia
amyjaneb wrote 1 year ago: There’s been a really interesting debate about Chinese art, and the current craze for it in th … more →
Mao suits and revolutionary dress
amyjaneb wrote 1 year ago: Here’s a fascinating little online exhibition from the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney that charts … more →
Modern Mao papercuts
amyjaneb wrote 1 year ago: To commemorate the Great Helmsman’s 114th birthday, Wu Suizhou, whom CCTV describes as a … more →
More ethical concerns about Mao kitsch
amyjaneb wrote 1 year ago: Leading on from yesterday’s post, and also featuring a link which has sat overlooked on my des … more →
LolMao...that made me smile!
amyjaneb wrote 1 year ago: I found thisages ago, and it’s been sitting on my desktop waiting for me to do something with … more →
OMG!1!!!
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amyjaneb wrote 2 years ago: The BM is stealing my ideas!!! Seriously, could be an absolutely fascinating exhibition if it com … more →
The Red Detachment of Women (1970)
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amyjaneb wrote 2 years ago: I’ve been neglecting this blog recently. Mainly because my final year has crept up on me, and … more →
A Soviet Poster A Day
amyjaneb wrote 2 years ago: A Soviet Poster A Day is a great little blog; simple, yet offers a very effective way of presenting … more →
The East is Red...as a study tool
amyjaneb wrote 2 years ago: I’ve decided it is about time I tackled this blinking thesis. So, in an attempt to promote an … more →
I am still here...really
amyjaneb wrote 2 years ago: I’m writing a couple of book reviews at the moment. They’re sapping ALL my creative stre … more →
More Mao kitsch
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amyjaneb wrote 2 years ago: …this time available from Good Orient. Isn’t the featured messenger bag, the one that g … more →
Someone takes matches to Mao
amyjaneb wrote 2 years ago: As reported by – amongst others – The Peking Duck, a 35 year old man, Gu Hai’ou, w … more →
Contemporary Chinese art: Art market con?
amyjaneb wrote 2 years ago: This article on Times Online by Waldemar Januszczak is more than a little sniffy about contemporary … more →
The aesthetics of totalitarianism (or what not to say when being interviewed by a German magazine)
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amyjaneb wrote 2 years ago: Bryan Ferry got into hot water this week (as reported by the BBC) for describing the visual iconogra … more →
Long overdue (and completely random and disorganised) round-up of good stuff...
amyjaneb wrote 2 years ago: …just cos they’re useful links that I want to record, but haven’t got the time to … more →
Yang Ban Xi: The 8 Model Works
amyjaneb wrote 2 years ago: Writing of documentary films, I have to see this, not least because it seems to have been highly con … more →
Red Guard for the 'Nuts' generation
amyjaneb wrote 2 years ago: From the Honolulu Star Bulletin: “The revolution is not a dinner party,” said Mao Tse-tu … more →
