Stories about History from September, 2006
Poland: Socialist Realism Award
Drawing on a previous entry, the beatroot announces the Socialist Realism Award contest: “We aim to find the most ridiculous (and by definition, the most fantastic) piece of socialist realism art ever.”
China: Art conversation
Ye Ying in mindmeters blogs an art conversation conference in Beijing, participants are from all over the world. She quotes from a local Artist Ai Wei Wei: we need to know where we come from and what is the essence of our era; outsiders can't help us on this, this...
China: Mao's 30th anniversary
Postive solution comments that the China Daily's “coverage” of the 30th anniversary of the death of Chairman Mao was a disgrace.
Czech Republic: Zlin
NvB: Bored in Brno? posts pictures and video from the town of Zlin: “The town is worth seeing, particularly if you're a fan of twentieth-century functionalist and utilitarian architecture. It turned out that my visit was on the weekend of the 13th annual Festival of Wind Orchestras and Folklore Ensembles.”
Russia: Tear of Grief; Intro to Orthodox Culture
In Moscow, Zurab Tsereteli‘s works seem ubiquitous – and disliked by many. In New Jersey, his first one was dedicated on Sept. 11 in Bayonne: a gift from the Russian government, the 100-foot, 175-ton bronze monument “To the Struggle Against World Terrorism” – aka the Tear of Grief. High-profile guests...
Five years on from 9/11, the world remembers
The mainstream media in many countries have been preoccupied with events in the United States to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Centre and Pentagon on 9/11 2001. But the repercussions of these events have spread across the globe and people far beyond New York...
Russia: “Solzhenitsyn vs. Khatami”
Russia Blog compares two Harvard speakers: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in 1978 and Mohammed Khatami this year.
Poland: 9/11 Memorial
The beatroot writes about the opening of a 9/11 memorial in a Polish town that saw a pogrom against Jews in 1946 – and about the effects of the 9/11 “media hysteria.”
Poland: Socialist Realism
The beatroot writes about Socialist Realism: “…mostly a patronizing celebration of all things ugly and pompous.”
India: Satyagraha and 9/11
While 9/11 appears to have the dominant connotation of a terror attack, Sepia Mutiny explores the other 9/11 – celebrating a hundred years of Satyagraha – or Gandhi's non violent resistance movement.
Pana-Blogs Report
#1: Rob Rivera.com remembers the 9/11 attack: "September 11, five years Later" It was a Tuesday, if I’m not mistaken. I slept in that day, enjoying a prolonged sabatical… I don’t remember what happened minute by minute but I do remember the first moments of my day that morning being...
Syrian Blogsphere in a Week
To start off this week, we have Brian Anthony‘s testimonial of what his reflections were exactly five years ago, September 11, 2001. But as I was watching the towers explode over and over again, I couldn't really muster a sense of shock and amazement. And while I felt sickened and...
China: Chinese fashion design show
Ye Ying blogs about a Chinese fashion design show in mindmeter. The design show took place in a factory studio in China. The blogger discusses about the challenge of Chinese design: as the oriental imagination is becoming cliche, how can the young generation designers explore a more diversified path? (zh)
Moldova: Language and Life
Peter Myers of Adventures in Moldova writes about Moldovans’ tardiness, shares his new understanding of Moldova's language politics, and posts a letter by a Moldovan teenager, OIga: “It's hard, really and if somehow I will escape from here I will just come back to see my relatives and that’s all....
Belarus: Praising Hitler
TOL's Belarus Blog translates an article about former interior minister of Belarus praising Adolf Hitler's Code of Honor of the Officer.
Russia: Photos of Churches
Taking Aim links to a collection of pictures of Russian churches, taken in 1910 and recently.
The Kannada Context: Post-modernist. Post-9/11. Concerns.
Firstly, let us remember the victims of 9/11. Let us wish that the world leaders gather enough sense and courage to fight the root cause of terrorism, and not just resort to paranoiac ways like “racial profiling”. Like they say do not attribute malice to that which can be sufficiently...
Lebanon: Field Trips, Wardrobe Personification and Poetry
Have you wondered why most women like shoes? Or can blogging be life threatening? Then read on and see what answers the Lebanese Blogosphere has. This week’s blogs have topics that are as serious as a threat to a fellow blogger for his political cartoons and as light hearted as...
China: Mao Who?
Saturday marked the thirtieth anniversary of Mao Zedong‘s death. Like the closeted bones some families would rather just forget about, China seems to be serious about moving on from the helter-skelter days of high Communism, both at The Party level and at the grassroots. Wu Zuolai, whose Sina.com blog was...
The Table of Free Voices
Bebelplatz, a square in Berlin, situated near to state opera and the Humboldt University buildings has an infamous past. Seventy Three years ago (1933) Nazi youths instigated by their Propaganda Minister, Joseph Goebbels burned around 20,000 books, including works by Thomas Mann, Erich Maria Remarque, Heinrich Heine, Karl Marx and...
Iran:Happy Persian Blogs Anniversary
Parsa Nevesht reminds us that 7th of September is the fifth anniversary of Iranian blogs [Fa]. At that day, Salman [Fa] published first blog in Persian and he explained what the meaning of a blog is.
