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Rocket man: Uli Sigg on how he began collecting art while working in North Korea

The Missiles (1994-2004) by North Korean artist Pak Yong Chol Photo: Sigg Collection; © The artist The Swiss art collector Uli Sigg first visited North Korea in the 1980s as an employee of the Schindler Elevator Corporation. In 1995 he became the Swiss ambassador there, and was the only foreign art collector permitted to purchase works portraying the regime’s leaders, among them a painting of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il in front of their country’s rocket arsenal. Sigg’s collection of Korean art from both North and South Korea is to go on show in a politically sensitive exhibition,

A collection of Chinese contemporary art falls prey to politics

C HINA’S LEADERS seem sure that innovation can co-exist with authoritarian rule. Their confidence looks more rational than it once did: Chinese firms dominate some high-tech fields. Still, they have to explain a counterpoint: when freedoms increased in China over the past 40 years, greater creativity always followed. Listen to this story Enjoy more audio and podcasts oniOSorAndroid. Uli Sigg, a Swiss businessman and diplomat, first reached China in 1979, as reformers began to dismantle the Mao-era planned economy. Later, he spent decades building an unrivalled collection of contemporary Chinese art. He was sent to China by Schindler, a Swiss manufacturer of lifts, for whom he established the first Chinese joint-venture with a foreign firm. Rather than a capitalist revolution, he describes years of caution, as entrepreneurs worried that open doors would slam shut. He recalls campaigns against Western “spiritual pollution” that frightened colleagues into ditching suits and ti

After Xi: Future Scenarios for Leadership Succession in Post-Xi Jinping Era

After Xi: Future Scenarios for Leadership Succession in Post-Xi Jinping Era A Joint Report of the CSIS Freeman Chair in China Studies and the Lowy Institute Key Findings After more than eight years in office, Xi Jinping has made himself into China’s most powerful leader since Deng Xiaoping, but in doing so, Xi has destabilised elite politics and demolished the power sharing norms that evolved since the 1980s. By removing de jure and de facto term limits on the most senior position of power, and thus far refusing to nominate his successor, Xi has solidified his own leadership position but potentially pushed the country towards a destabilising succession crisis.

This Day inHistory — April 7

This Day inHistory — April 7
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