Seeds of Fire 回忌李文良 The space for professionals to speak out within the system as it presently exists is extremely limited. The constraints imposed exist to prevent people from telling the truth; the pressure people are under is tremendous.… Read

The Other China We mark the anniversary of Ukraine’s War of Resistance Against Russia, which started on this day four years ago, with a tribute by the Beijing-based calligrapher Liu Chan.… Read

Seeds of Fire ‘On Heritage 遺’, reproduced below, was written in January 2016. It offers the Rationale behind China Heritage, a publishing and archival project related to culture, translation and thought that was launched in December 2016.… Read

Seeds of Fire 無恥之尤 Journalist Marije Vlaskamp’s essay on the Gao Brothers 高氏兄弟 — Gao Zhen 高兟 and Gao Qiang 高强 — reproduced below, is all but unreadable, even unbearable. That’s because Vlaskamp describes dilemmas and agonies of conscience that have been part of my own life for nearly half a century.… Read

Seeds of Fire 馬首是瞻 While many people were enthralled by Kungfu bots— 武bot — of the official Spring Festival song-and-dance celebration, or Chunwan 春晚,  broadcast by Beijing’s CCTV on 16 February 2026, some were just as attentive to what the show says about things IRL.… Read

The Other China   China Heritage marked the lead-up to the 2026-2027 Bingwu Year of the Horse with a series of essays, a selection of Other People’s Thoughts and a poem by Xu Zhangrun:

The Little New Year

On the Cusp of Fire — The Flaming Horse and The Blood-red Ram

Snakes Retreat with the Advent of The Horse

Other People’s Thoughts LXXIII

Who will adjudicate the how’s and why’s?

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