New podcast series
Of new corridors & silk roads. A podcast on culture and infrastructure. With Jamila Adeli
With great pleasure I announce the release of the first episode "Chinas neue Kulturpolitik" of a new podcast series. This series is part of Jamila Adeli’s postdoc project and a cooperation between the BMBF-funded research project “De:link // Re:link - Local perspectives on transregional (dis-)entanglements “ and " Beyond Social Cohesion - Global Repertoires of Living Together (RePLITO)".
In this first episode, I am in conversation with Minh An Szabó de Bucs, an independent art journalist specialized on contemporary art (market) in China and Asia. Our talk provides insights into the latest developments in Chinese cultural politics by focussing on the role of contemporary art and on artifacts of cultural heritage, the latter being a desired target of the Chinese state.
Minh An Szabó de Bucs studied Sinology, Art History and English at the Freie Universität Berlin. She completed her one-year study abroad program at Fu Jen University in Taipei, Taiwan. She speaks German, English, Standard Chinese, Cantonese and Vietnamese. For years she has been working as a freelance author and art journalist for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, the Süddeutsche Zeitung, the Stuttgarter Zeitung Magazin, the Tagesspiegel and Monopol, among others. Her main topics are the Asian art market in all its facets and contemporary Asian art. In 2019 she shot the documentary "China's Supercollector" with director Grit Lederer for the cultural channel ARTE.
*Minh An Szabó de Bucs would like to correct a figure mentioned in the conversation: Back in the Chinese civil war, Chiang Kai-shek did not take 500 boxes of art treasures from the palace museum to Taiwan with him, but thousands of wooden boxes that were loaded onto three ships. In total, there are said to be around 610,000 imperial artifacts in the Taipei Palace Museum.