Spectres & Souls
Vignettes, moments and meditations
on China and America, 1861-2021
On cue, the Chinese media began publishing articles about the ‘revolving door’ in Washington following the US presidential election in early November 2020.… Read
The State of the Sino-American Pas de Deux in 2021
Spectres & Souls
Vignettes, moments and meditations
on China and America, 1861-2021 We have previously compared the relationship between the United States and the People’s Republic of China to the Apache Dance, a Parisian stage act famous at the Moulin Rouge in the early twentieth century.… Read
on China and America, 1861-2021 We have previously compared the relationship between the United States and the People’s Republic of China to the Apache Dance, a Parisian stage act famous at the Moulin Rouge in the early twentieth century.… Read
Ox Herding & the Xinchou Year of the Ox 辛丑牛年
Spectres & Souls
The 12th of February 2021 marks the end of an eventful Gengzi Year of the Rat 庚子鼠年 and the first day of the Xinchou Year of the Ox 辛丑牛年 of 2021-2022.… Read
Introducing Xu Zhangrun’s Ten Letters from a Year of Plague
Viral Alarm
Viral Alarm, the theme of China Heritage Annual 2020, was inspired by ‘When Fury Overcomes Fear’, an impassioned critique of Xi Jinping, his government and their disastrous initial response to the COVID-19 epidemic written by Professor Xu Zhangrun 許章潤.… Read