Viral Alarm   On 19 October 2020, legal counsel acting on behalf of Geng Xiaonan and her husband, Qin Zhen, publishers who had been detained by the Beijing authorities on 9 September 2020 on suspicion of ‘illicit business practices’, was formally notified that, following a preliminary investigation, his clients had now been officially arrested and would, in the fulness of time, be arraigned in court.… Read

Viral Alarm   On 8 October 2020, we reprinted an account of the one hundred days since the National Security Law was imposed on Hong Kong, from 1 July 2020, compiled by Katja Drinhausen of the Mercator Institute for Chinese Studies (MERICS) (see: The Siege of Hong Kong — The First Hundred Days of the National Security Law.) On the Mainland of the People’s Republic of China, men and women of conscience have been under siege, to a greater or lesser extent, since 1949.… Read

Viral Alarm   China Heritage marked the 1st of October National Day of the Chinese People’s Republic series with a chapter in Viral Alarm: China Heritage Annual 2020 consisting of a number of poems.… Read

Hong Kong Apostasy     In Viral Alarm: China Heritage Annual 2020 we have previously remarked on the unsettling echo that can readily be detected between the xenophobic extremism of late-dynastic Qing politics and recent developments in the People’s Republic of China occasioned by the 2019-2020 coronavirus epidemic.… Read