Other People’s Thoughts LIV

Other People’s Thoughts This is the fifty fourth 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

Q. & A. on Xi Jinping, from 2015

Celebrating New Sinology 舉一反三   The following Q. & A. appeared in The New York Times in November 2015. It is reprinted here as part of our series Celebrating New Sinology — China Heritage Annual 2025.… Read

America’s Real Cold War

Contra Trump 苦迭打   In ‘Some Thoughts on a Glum Convergence’, remarks delivered at the State Library in Sydney, Australia, to mark the thirtieth anniversary of Australia-PRC relations in November 2002, I observed that: Once, many students of China shared a sense of fascinated engagement with a country that was vastly different from our own, one whose values and institutions were not only at variance, but markedly inferior to those of our own shores.… Read

When the Anaconda is the Chandelier

Celebrating New Sinology in 2025 乙巳蟒蛇 The first day of January 2025 marked eight years since China Heritage went online. On 29 of January, the first day of the Year of the Snake 乙巳蛇年, we introduce China Heritage Annual 2025, the theme of which is Celebrating New Sinology.… Read