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cogs and wheels the material culture of revolutionary china a research weblog and collection of resources cogs and wheels the material culture of revolutionary china july 8 2012 a much overdue update filed under uncategorized amyjaneb 12 41 pm greetings from post phd land in the last couple of years i ve been involved in some really exciting exhibition projects co edited a few books published some papers and been appointed as honorary visiting fellow in the school of museum studies university of leicester and china editor of modern art asia i recently started working on a six month contract in the school of museum studies as a research associate i m updating the school s distance learning programmes to find out more please see my current blog the imaginatively titled amyjanebarnes wordpress com leave a comment december 16 2009 a very belated blog update and some news filed under uncategorized amyjaneb 8 58 pm last friday afternoon i had my viva and i passed with a few corrections am just getting used to being a doctor perhaps after i ve recovered a few braincells and had a good rest i ll restart this research blog in the meantime check out the attic leave a comment august 6 2008 hamlet goes to anyuan filed under appropriation of communist imagery images mao material culture art design amyjaneb 10 44 am it may be because i m mired in cultrev art but i can t help but see a marked similarity between rsc publicity for david tennant s hamlet and mao goes to anyuan comments 1 july 10 2008 a younger thinner taller hu jintao filed under china material culture art design propaganda amyjaneb 10 37 am ah the art of propaganda is alive and well in contemporary china i see via danwei leave a comment april 15 2008 the rights and wrongs of contemporary sinophilia filed under china material culture art design propaganda amyjaneb 10 04 am there 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 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 we are displaying a blindness towards the reality of the chinese regime in our seeming obsession for all things chinese in my view this is only an extension of the attitude shown by the business world in recent years dazzled by the prospect of securing a share of a vast largely untapped consumer base coupled with the pull of a seemingly endless supply of cheap unregulated labour makes it easy to cast aside any lingering concerns about human rights personally i feel it is a good thing if recent events in tibet and culturally tibetan areas of china cause people in the west to stop and think although i doubt given how inextricably linked the chinese economic and labour market now is with the western economy individual ethical concerns would have much impact as a cause for good in china and i strongly believe that real permanent change can only occur from within of course the chinese people are not to blame they are equally subject to the vicissitudes of their government and many of the artists working within china and attracting enormous attention from the western art world are using their art as subtle commentary on the regime and the official policy of capitalism without democracy often to the detriment of their careers and personal lives so equally it is difficult to argue that their voices should be silenced because of wider concerns about the conduct of the ccp and this is exactly the argument taken up by eliza gluckman in her response to jones distancing ourselves from chinese culture will hurt only those labouring with imagination under censorship there s more than terracotta at stake i guess what would be problematic is if china began to assert its influence over british museums and cultural institutions and given the track record of the chinese authorities i wouldn t be surprised if they didn t apply strict conditions with respect to the interpretation of particular objects as a component of any loan or joint exhibition agreements indeed reports at the time accused china of trying to censor the museum für asiatische kunst s recent exhibition of tibetan artefacts leave a comment march 28 2008 south african lessons for chinese museums filed under china cultural revolution exhibitions museums tags apartheid south africa amyjaneb 11 20 am from danwei 2008 is the tenth anniversary of the commencement of diplomatic relations between south africa and the people 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 trip the correspondent maya alexandri wonders what the chinese delegation made of the apartheid museum in relation to the current lack of a similar public response to the cultural revolution in china although she suggests an implicit admiration for the museum amongst the chinese visitors sadly she doesn t elaborate perhaps that line of questioning would have been deemed inappropriate on an official visit leave a comment march 27 2008 lost in translation filed under china propaganda tibet amyjaneb 11 08 am there s a really interesting little article by channel 4 news 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 tibet issue while this is nothing new of course for example the chinese propaganda machine continued to churn out hyper propagandist posters for use in china long after restrictions on art and design in china had been relaxed it s thought provoking all the same leave a comment it s time i got serious filed under my research writing amyjaneb 10 57 am 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 ve already failed miserably 2 each morning will start with a 20min free writing exercise this is it 3 i will achieve at least three things from my to do list each day with a minimum of two being from the pressing high priority list as opposed to the low priority ongoing list 4 i will work a minimum of four hours a day exclusively on phd stuff reading writing researching finishing by 6pm each day to keep myself on the straight and narrow i have instigated a treat system for each day i achieve resolutions 2 4 i will put a 1 aside to spend in primark will it work only time will tell comments 2 march 16 2008 sometimes i feel like such a hypocrite filed under china protest tibet web resources amyjaneb 12 48 pm i 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 was wrong for me not to recognise here the cultural genocide taking place under the aegis of the chinese authorities even though it is decidedly off topic though having said that contemporary chinese activities in tibet are likely to have a big impact on the image of china in the west especially given the current attention focused on chinese heritage and culture though only if the media gives it full and due attention something that appears a little lacking at present imho anyway jeremiah and the peking duck community are doing a valiant job at keeping readers informed and updated about the situation in tibet in other news my total lack of posts in recent weeks is mainly due to the fact that i am now well into the writing up process and it s sapping most of my time and energy as it should the dalai lama s words not mine though i am inclined to agree leave a comment january 17 2008 making a mockery of mao filed under appropriation of communist imagery china cultural revolution humour mao popular culture amyjaneb 5 34 pm 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 support for mao seems surprising perhaps the unwillingness or sheer inability due to trauma and fear of repercussions of the older generation to discuss the human aspects of the cultural revolution has created a chasm between the experiences of those who lived through it and the popular imagining of china under mao would a remembrance museum of the cultural revolution make a difference 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