Post Tags Archives: China

The Unofficial View of Tirana (38)

Follow-up on the last post. One of my faithful readers cross-fact-checked with a Chinese student of his, and came up with the following original audio recording of the song “Tirana-Beijing,” which, however, seems not to have been written by Mao Zedong himself. I was also informed that the Albanian movies (with Chinese titles) “Underground Guerrilla,” [...]

The Unofficial View of Tirana (37)

Yesterday night I was witness to one of these events that (so it feels) can only happen in Albania. The Nanjing Ethnic Orchestra was giving a concert, sponsored by the Chinese embassy in Tirana and the Ministry (I was nearly writing Monostrosity, perhaps this is why) of Tourism, Culture etc. and the Theater of the [...]