Turn, Turn, Turn — The Tyranny of Chinese History

Xi Jinping’s Empire of Tedium Chapter Three, Part I 迴 Just as the record of the past was an essential guide to how to deal with the problems of today, so the records of one’s own time yet to be compiled, and their distribution of praise and blame, were something so worrying that they might even influence present actions.… Read

Other People’s Thoughts XLII

Other People’s Thoughts is a section in the Journal of the China Heritage site. It is inspired by a compilation of quotations put together by Simon Leys (Pierre Ryckmans), one of our Ancestors, during his reading life.… Read

Mourning Alexei Navalny, Shedding Tears for China — Xu Zhangrun

The Other China   The prison-murder of the Russian opposition leader Alexei Anatolyevich Navalny, 4 June 1976-16 February 2024, reverberated in the Chinese world. Some recalled the death in incarceration of Liu Xiaobo in July 2017, others asked why there was no opposition figure with either the fame or the popularity of the Russian dissident in China.… Read

Caged Birds and Turd Blossoms in Xi Jinping’s China

Xi Jinping’s Empire of Tedium 籠中放鳥,屎上雕花   On New Year’s Eve 2023, the online journal Matters published the latest entry in ‘Recording History in Calligraphy’ 用書法記錄歷史, a regular column featuring the work of Liu Chan 劉蟾, a Beijing-based artist and writer.… Read