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	<title>Cogs and Wheels:  The material culture of revolutionary China</title>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:36:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The rights and wrongs of contemporary Sinophilia</title>
		<link>http://cogsandwheels.wordpress.com/2008/04/15/the-rights-and-wrongs-of-contemporary-sinophilia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:04:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>amyjaneb</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s been a really interesting debate about Chinese art, and the current craze for it in the West, on Guardian Unlimited recently.
Jonathan Jones asks:

Isn&#8217;t it a bit rich that China, with its human rights record, is being so assiduously courted by so many British museums and galleries?

He suggests that &#8216;we&#8217; are displaying a blindness towards [...]]]></description>
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		<title>South African lessons for Chinese museums?</title>
		<link>http://cogsandwheels.wordpress.com/2008/03/28/south-african-lessons-for-chinese-museums/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:20:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>amyjaneb</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Cultural Revolution]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From Danwei:
2008 is the tenth anniversary of the commencement of diplomatic relations between South Africa and the People&#8217;s Republic of China. As part of its activities to celebrate the occasion, the South African government has invited actress, director and blogger Xu Jinglei to visit. Xu is planning to produce a book and documentary about the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lost in Translation</title>
		<link>http://cogsandwheels.wordpress.com/2008/03/27/lost-in-translation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:08:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>amyjaneb</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a really interesting little article by Channel 4 News&#8217; Beijing Correspondent Lindsey Hilsum on their website (thanks to Danwei for the heads-up), in which she examines the use of Cultural Revolution-esque terminology and language by the Chinese authorities when discussing the &#8216;Tibet issue&#8217;.  While this is nothing new, of course, for example the Chinese [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s time I got serious&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:57:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>amyjaneb</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://cogsandwheels.wordpress.com/?p=102</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;with this PhD thing.  My recent lack of activity has been deplorable.  My anticipated end-date of September is quickly slipping from view.  So, I have made a few resolutions in an attempt to kick-start my brain:
1.  I will be at my desk and ready to work at 10am each weekday morning (I&#8217;ve already failed miserably!)
2.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sometimes I feel like such a hypocrite</title>
		<link>http://cogsandwheels.wordpress.com/2008/03/16/sometimes-i-feel-like-such-a-hypocrite/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Mar 2008 12:48:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>amyjaneb</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m feeling really torn; between my love of China (my obsession, in fact) and distress at what is happening in Tibet.  Similarly, I cannot wait for the Olympics in Beijing, and yet I am uneasy about my resultant lack of interest in supporting the boycott of the Games over Darfur and Tibet.  Thus, I felt it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making a mockery of Mao</title>
		<link>http://cogsandwheels.wordpress.com/2008/01/17/making-a-mockery-of-mao/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:34:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Appropriation of communist imagery]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[According to the BBC, the French car marker, Citroen, has apologised for an advertisement featuring Mao which ran in the Spanish newspaper El Pais.  What I find interesting about this is the response of, presumably, young(er) commentators.  Given that their parents and grandparents are likely to have suffered to some extent during the Cultural Revolution, their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mao suits and revolutionary dress</title>
		<link>http://cogsandwheels.wordpress.com/2007/12/27/mao-suits-and-revolutionary-dress/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2007 10:22:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a fascinating little online exhibition from the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney that charts the development of Chinese revolutionary dress, and in particular the Mao suit (zhifu).  It&#8217;s part of a larger virtual exhibition entitled Evolution and Revolution: Chinese dress 1700s-1990s.  Check out the page on the sartorial ideology of the Cultural Revolution as well.  When I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Modern Mao papercuts</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2007 10:14:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To commemorate the Great Helmsman&#8217;s 114th birthday, Wu Suizhou, whom CCTV describes as a &#8216;folk artist&#8217;, has produced a set of papercuts.  The photographs on the CCTV website aren&#8217;t very clear (Xinhua is better), but it looks like he has chosen classic propagandist modes of representations of Mao and other communist icons as his models.  Indeed, there&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More ethical concerns about Mao kitsch</title>
		<link>http://cogsandwheels.wordpress.com/2007/12/22/more-ethical-concerns-about-mao-kitsch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Dec 2007 13:30:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leading on from yesterday&#8217;s post, and also featuring a link which has sat overlooked on my desktop for far too long, is this blog post about the draw of Mao (and &#8216;Commie&#8217;) kitsch in both China and the West.  Also features a link to a small exhibition of Mao memorabilia held during 1998-1999, which I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LolMao&#8230;that made me smile!</title>
		<link>http://cogsandwheels.wordpress.com/2007/12/22/lolmaothat-made-me-smile/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Dec 2007 00:08:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found thisages ago, and it&#8217;s been sitting on my desktop waiting for me to do something with it.  I think the author cogently expresses the ethical grey-area into which communist propaganda (as kitsch, or otherwise) falls.  Not to mention the fear of one&#8217;s intention by displaying this material being misinterpreted.  I enjoyed reading the [...]]]></description>
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