Watching China Watching 以其昏昏 使人昭昭   In 1949, the civil war on mainland China entered its final phase. The People’s Liberation Army under the command of the Communist Party was on the march to overthrow the Republic of China under the leadership of Chiang Kai-shek and his Nationalist Party.… Read

Xi Jinping’s Empire of Tedium Chapter VIII 中軸線   On 27 July 2024, the 46th session of the World Heritage Committee in New Delhi, India, announced that ‘Beijing Central Axis: A Building Ensemble Exhibiting the Ideal Order of the Chinese Capital’ had been inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List.… Read

Other People’s Thoughts 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

Xi Jinping’s Empire of Tedium Chapter XIV 冀 前後左右   Chairman Mao has taught us to be constantly on the look out for new developments in the class struggle and to study every move in class conflict within the ideological sphere.… Read

Xi Jinping’s Empire of Tedium Chapter XI 牆國荒誕字
一把辛酸淚   In the Xi Jinping era, the term Great Power 強國 qiáng guó, literally ‘powerful nation’, is a commonplace term for China itself.… Read

Intersecting with Eternity   Lao Shu 老樹 is the nom de plume of Liu Shuyong (劉樹勇, 1962-), a Beijing-based artist, writer, critic and professor in communications. His artistic voice is unique and personal, its tenor, whimsy and profundity evoke what for decades we have called The Other China — a cultural noosphere that is as undeniably local as it is universal.… Read