Cultural Relations
Reading the ‘Riot Act’: North Korea Themes in the Chinese Media, March 2012
Reading the ‘Riot Act’: North Korea Themes in the Chinese Media, March 2012 by Adam Cathcart President Obama’s recent critiques of China’s failure to coerce the DPRK back from the launching pad are worth revisiting. The American President repeats, more or less, Bush administration complaints that China is still holding back from using what tends […]
Patterns of Absence in Sino-North Korean Mutual Media Coverage (1)
Patterns of Absence in Sino-North Korean Mutual Media Coverage by Adam Cathcart In their essay “Tea Leaves and Turtle Shells,” a group of analysts associated with Johns Hopkins University described prospective guidelines for DPRK media analysis. How, though, do we approach North Korean media about China, and vice versa? Back in the old days (that […]
Rehearsal, Propaganda, Unity: Documenting the DPRK Unhasu Orchestra’s Performance in Paris
Having analyzed the meaning of the Sea of Blood Opera Troupe’s three-month tour across China, Performing Arts Analyst Jimin Lee returns to SinoNK.com with a multivalent examination of the Unhasu Orchestra’s March 14 performance in Paris. — Adam Cathcart, Editor-in-Chief Rehearsal, Propaganda, Unity: Documenting the DPRK Unhasu Orchestra’s Performance in Paris by Jimin Lee On […]
Lady Gaga Meets Tunnel Warfare: Chronicling Chinese Educational Experiences in Pyongyang
Transnational educational linkages take time to develop, and they require steady cultivation. After thirty years of such exchanges in the US-China relationship, students and faculty on both sides of the Pacific still find themselves confronting immense cultural and expectation gaps. How one navigates (or celebrates) such divides, in large measure, determines the value of the […]
The Northeastern History Project and the Battle for the Past
Ji’an is a small city on the upper reaches of the Yalu River whose claim to fame is twofold: it has a bridge to the DPRK (Manp’o) which functioned as the main switching-point for China’s intervention in the Korean War, and it has ancient monuments. The latter are profuse, encountered as a layering on of […]
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