notes

I’ve published three new articles recently.

• With Angie Baecker, “Beijing Before the Olympics: Business as Usual?” ArtAsiaPacific, Issue 59
  

  … As the city approaches “8/8/08”—which, with its numerological connotations of good fortune many times over, is the most auspicious opening date possible this decade in Chinese culture—Beijing’s art community has also pursued breakneck development and attracted increasing international interest. From its earliest days, when art in China first began to take the forms it is recognized for today, Beijing’s art communities have passed from sensation to legitimization: the clandestine exhibitions once forced into apartment-complex basements have since been welcomed into official spaces as the market for contemporary Chinese art has exploded. …

• “Search Wars,” China International Business, July 2008
  On the competition between Google and Baidu in the China market. Short version, Baidu is winning for some interesting reasons, but the future is unclear.
• “Healthy Profits” (an interview with David Goldstein of the Natural Resources Defense Council), China International Business, July 2008