China Archives - Trebuchet Magazine

The Future of Sound of a Native Culture – Hanggai

18/10/2019 Trebuchet Magazine

An unusual yet explosive mix of big band horns and Mongolian rock from a band with a subtle political subtext. Big Band Brass by Hanngai (read more)

China’s Contemporary Cultural Revolution

26/06/2018 Michael Eden

Zhu Wei is an internationally acclaimed artist who examines contemporary China using traditional painting methods, he shares his thoughts in issue 3 of Trebuchet Magazine (excerpt here) (read more)

The Passion of Wu Yongning

24/06/2018 Jeffrey Wengrofsky

Final dance of Chinese rooftop artist Wu Yongning (read more)

霸权 Chinese values make the world China!

13/03/2018 Natalie Andrews

Chinese hegemony is it something to worry about? It is if your uncomfortable with the West becoming more undemocratic and prone to long term leaders who stay on for, stability. (read more)

Blended Dystopias, lovingly created nightmares

06/03/2018 Natalie Andrews

We have been imagining ‘Chimerica’ since Blade Runner in 1982 many years before the word was coined! The nightmare is made of the worst aspects of both worlds unbridled consumerism, industrial waste and authoritarian rule…er fantasy? (read more)

Nomadic music and the convergence of style – Tengger Cavalry

05/03/2018 Fraggle

Sometimes, the tropes of contemporary Western culture can combine with the music of other eras and nations to turn up unexpected results. (read more)

Sinicisation, Making The World In China

27/02/2018 Natalie Andrews

Remaking the world in China. Its long been thought that our products would change China but it seems China is not so ready to be co-opted! our products and brands are easily transformed through sinicisation. (read more)

China/Art/Soft Power: speak softly and carry a big stick!

13/02/2018 Natalie Andrews

China is developing its soft power portfolio; state propaganda, Confucius institutes, strategic investment and of course, art. (read more)

How Did China Tame The Market?

16/01/2018 Natalie Andrews

To fully understand the impact of China in the modern world its important to have an idea of how the self styled communist state extricated the free market from democracy. (read more)