Asia Change and integration: China’s legacy after 40 years of economic transformation January 30, 2020 0 Image Credit: RedEnvelopes by Ksionic/Flickr; licence: CC BY-SA 2.0. Written by Qing Shan Ding. Saturday 25 January 2020 marked the start of the Chinese Lunar…
Asia The origins and customs of the Chinese New Year January 27, 2020 0 Image Credit: Chinese New Year by Akuppa John Wigham/Flickr; licence CC BY 2.0. Written by Haiwang Yuan. With information available everywhere and easily searchable nowadays,…
China Playing with chopsticks in China is not funny: A critical reading of the controversy over D&G’s ‘Eating with Chopsticks’ ad December 17, 2018 0 By Giovanna Puppin. A ‘magic’ connection On the morning of 18 November 2018, as soon as I woke up, I received a WeChat message from…
China The Politics of “Displaying” China: The British Museum and Modern China July 13, 2018 0 Written by Jennifer Y.J. Hsu. The refurbishment and reopening of the Joseph Hutong Gallery at the British Museum in November 2017, which houses the South…
China Yu Xiuhua: Travelling Through the Mud of Life by Poetry December 6, 2017 0 Written by Dian Li. 2015 started with a bang for Yu Xiuhua. In a span of months, her name graced front pages of newspapers, prime-time…
China Roots and Prospects of Xi’s Cultural Policy December 23, 2016 2 Written by Giorgio Strafella and Daria Berg. The speech pronounced by Xi Jinping at a conference on political work in higher education on 7 December 2016,…
China The Effectiveness of the Chinese Cultural Centres and Confucius Institutes December 2, 2016 0 Written by Xiaoling Zhang. In an effort to increase China’s culture-focused soft power and to secure an international environment conducive to its development and to…
China Cultural Statecraft in the Russian and Chinese Contexts April 13, 2016 0 Written by Jeanne L. Wilson. In the last decade, the Russian and the Chinese leaderships have come to focus on cultural and civilizational factors as a…
China Confucius Institutes and the limits of attraction March 21, 2016 0 Written by Falk Hartig. By late 2015, 500 Confucius Institutes (hereafter CIs) had been established around the world and the number of Confucius Classrooms at…
Culture and Society Pearls mixed with fish eyes – some observations on the Chinese art market March 15, 2016 0 Written by Minna Törmä. Every now and then a Chinese artwork hits the news headlines because of the exorbitant price it has fetched at auction. Often…
