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TIANANMEN MYSTERY: CHIMERICA GOES WHERE CBS DARE NOT TREAD
Actor Alessandro Nivola plays a photographer who calls it in from Tiananmen Square for Channel Four in "Chimerica"Split screen effects: making a thriller out of history by Philip J...
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THE CUDDLE FEST OF POWER-CODDLERS: TRISH REGAN DEBATES LIU XIN
Philip J CunninghamThe much-anticipated May 29, 2019 “debate” between an anchor from Fox Business News and a counterpart from China’s CGTN, better known as CCTV, was more of a letdown than a showdown,...
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TILL THE DAY A MILLION MAY GATHER IN TIANANMEN SQUARE TO REMEMBER
Like a distant but powerful gravity wave, the ripples from the cataclysm of June 4, 1989 can be felt today. Pens and paintbrushes, musical chords and moving pictures triumph over the rumble of the...
View ArticleWHEN THE ART OF THE DEAL MEANS MAKING A MESS OF THINGS
Philip J CunninghamTrump brazenly slapped China with punitive tariffs despite a weak grasp of economics, not so much to fix things or even signal the start of a new Cold War, but to make a dramatic...
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LOOKING FOR CHINA'S BEST VERSION OF ITSELF
Anti-Extradition protest comes on the tail of Hong Kong's June 4 Tiananmen VigilBY PHILIP J CUNNINGHAMHong Kongers are not quick to demonstrate, but when they do, whether in solidarity with people...
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A CLASH OF LANGUAGE, POLITICS AND SECURITY AT THE OSAKA G-20 SUMMIT
The Osaka G-20 summit will be held inside a vast exhibition center on a dreary, nearly treeless man-made island located in the industrial port area of Osaka, Japan’s third largest city. The physical...
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LI PENG: HARD-LINE ORGANIZATION MAN
Li Peng was not the butcher of Beijing, but he certainly was an embarrassment. Awkward and homely, bumbling and bashful, he was a loyal apparatchik pushed far above his own meager talents, a tech nerd...
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SPACE RACE TAKING SHAPE
A new space race is taking shape as China and India flex technological and scientific muscle on the fiftieth anniversary of the first moon landing. China has a robotic probe on the far side of the...
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WHAT'S LEFT?
The South Gate at Beijing UniversityBEIJING UNIVERSITYA retrospective tour of the haunts and hideouts of the Tiananmen student uprising would not be complete without a visit to Beijing University,...
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THE BIG EMPTY
All traffic was halted at Tiananmen on July 29, 1989Philip CunninghamTiananmen Square can be forbidding, even in the best of times. It is open to the sky and exposed to the elements, offering no...
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BEIJING HOTEL
BEIJING HOTELFalling into a pattern that had been a daily routine in May 1989, I left the political heat of the square for the more relaxed venue of the Beijing Hotel, which, though a bit distant, is...
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SIDNEY RITTENBERG: AN APPRECIATION
The difficulty of being right on the leftPhilip J. CunninghamSidney Rittenberg, whose long life was long intertwined with that of communist China, was born when the party was in its infancy and has...
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BEIJING NORMAL
The tree-lined entrance to the Beijing Normal University campus in BeitaipingzhuangBEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITYBeishida, that’s what Beijing Normal University is called in Chinese and I will use that term...
View ArticleTHE YIN AND YANG OF SOFT AND HARD POWER
BY PHILIP J CUNNINGHAMChina’s National Day extravaganza has come and gone, but certain after-images linger. I think of the daytime march and nighttime gala as the yang and yin of China’s power, hard...
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BRUCE LEE AND HONG KONG
It’s a reflection of Bruce Lee’s transcendent appeal that he continues to inspire people on both sides of the Pacific Ocean 46 years after his untimely passing. The United States, China, and Hong Kong,...
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KEEPING PACE WITH THE PAST AT BEIJING UNIVERSITY
Surveillance at the south gate of Beijing University(first published as "Retracing Steps at Beijing University" in theAsia-Pacific Journal, November 23, 2019)Philip J CunninghamA retrospective tour of...
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HONG KONG PROTEST PARADOX
Protesters throw petrol bombs at the police outside Polytechnic University in Hung Hom on November 17. Photo: KyodoSOUTH CHINA MORNING POST DECEMBER 4, 2019 Hong Kong protest paradox: Can a...
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WHEN WOMEN WARRIORS DARE NOT SPEAK
An upcoming film about a filial daughter who fights against the odds to make it in a man’s world is now fighting against the odds to avoid falling victim of a massive boycott, because the star had the...
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OZIL'S OWN GOAL
The last thing the confused protesters of Hong Kong need is to cheer for Mehut Ozil who is the current poster boy for critics of China’s repressive policies in Xinjiang. Even before a group of Hong...
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