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Study in Contrasts: US and France Regard the Shanghai Expo
I spent part of this weekend watching American diplomats on C-SPAN describing how great everything is going at the American pavilion at the Shanghai Expo. Hillary Clinton, having tactfully boxed...
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Little Tremors in Sino-French Relations: Violence in 19th Arrondissement
[Update: Liberation has the most comprehensive overview so far available (in French, bien sûr).] Like me, you might have thought that you could just forget for a while about Sino-French relations....
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Crashing the “Chinese Wave”? Interview with Hanban Head
The following story was originally published in a Singapore paper, but it’s still nice to read it in the Huanqiu Shibao/Global Times, as it plays to the best sense of that publication’s kind of...
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A Moveable Feast of Sino-French Links
Particularly as we lay siege to a new year, one in which I hope this blog can increasingly function as a kind of open workshop, a mediation on hope may in fact be appropriate. In a chapter entitled...
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Sino-French Soliloquies
Word counts don’t mean so much at the end of the day, the release of a big article manuscript into the hands of a capable editor should always be grounds for a minor celebration. It also seems clear...
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Catching Up on French Reports from China
Today, prepping a piece on Ai Weiwei in the German press, I popped a few dozen links (beginning with my own “European Sources on East Asia” in my homepage sidebar) and was quickly swimming in...
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Three Miniatures on Sino-French Parallels, Relations
Rooting around in the proverbial cellar of this castle in the sky/blog, I came across three essays involving, more or less, Jean-Paul Sartre and his reception in the PRC....
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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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Consecrated: New French Embassy in Beijing
The next time you encounter someone caterwauling about the rapid expansion of Chinese cultural institutions abroad, Chinese companies taking over contracts in Algeria, or complaining about the size of...
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Moranbong: Following French Intellectuals to North Korea in 1958
Frame from the French-North Korean film production of “Moranbong,” c. 1958. Image courtesy National Museum of Singapore As I’ve completed a long article on the subject of Sino-French relations in the...
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