The Other China 宜籬下採菊 In this celebration of the northern autumn of 2026, the Beijing artist Lao Shu again plucks virtual chrysanthemums at the imagined home of Tao Yuanming 陶淵明, China’s most famous poet-recluse.… Read

This is the eighty ninth chapter in Other People’s Thoughts, a China Heritage series inspired by a compilation of quotations put together by Simon Leys (Pierre Ryckmans), one of our Ancestors, during his reading life.… Read

Seeds of Fire at Forty 道生一，一生二，
二生三，三生萬物 In this chapter of Seeds of Fire, a series that commemorates the fortieth anniversary of the publication of Seeds of Fire: Chinese Voices of Conscience (Hong Kong: Far Eastern Economic Review, 1986), we follow up on The Longest Relay, an essay by Mike Brock — a prolific thinker and cultural commentator — that we published to mark the anniversary of June Fourth in 2026.… Read

This is the eighty eighth chapter in Other People’s Thoughts, a China Heritage series inspired by a compilation of quotations put together by Simon Leys (Pierre Ryckmans), one of our Ancestors, during his reading life.… Read

The Other China 向前看 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