The refusal of one decent man
outweighs the acquiescence of the multitude.
千人之諾諾，不如一士之諤諤。
— Sima Qian, ‘Biography of Lord Shang’
司馬遷著 《史記 · 商君列傳》
trans. G.R. Barmé
In November 1978, Beijing audiences flocked to ‘Where Silence Reigns’ 於無聲處, a play first staged in Shanghai that addressed the question of the repression of the ‘Tiananmen Incident’ two years earlier.… Read
Travelling in the Opposite Direction — Jin Yong & Me
The Best China XVI
Jin Yong’s fictional world was enthralling. Although I first encountered the work of Louis Cha (查良鏞, 1924-2018), better known as Jin Yong 金庸, in the late 1970s, the first martial arts novel of his that I read — The Deer and the Cauldron 鹿鼎記 — was his last (it appeared between 1969 and 1972).… Read
Analysing the Chinese Leadership in an Era of Sex, Money and Power
Watching China Watching (XXXIV)
We are grateful to Alice L. Miller of the Hoover Institution for her kind permission to reproduce this valedictory meditation as part of our series Watching China Watching.… Read
Other People’s Thoughts, XV
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