Spring, River, Flowers, Moon, Night

Intersecting with Eternity As David Lattimore, the translator of the following version of the ‘Spring, River, Flowers, Moon, Night’ 春江花月夜 notes, little is known about the poem’s author Zhang Ruoxu (張若虛, c.660-c.720).… Read

Other People’s Thoughts, LXXVIII

This is the seventy-eighth 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

Maple Bridge & Covid Lessons for Kumbayistas

Xi Jinping’s Empire of Tedium 回忌李文良 Chapter XXIV, Part Four 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

An Australian’s Letter to America

Contra Trump   It happened gradually at first. The kid from the kindergarten classroom, now a grown man, didn’t notice it straight away. He noticed Hollywood went a bit dark. He noticed your news started screaming.… Read

‘Don Colossus’ — a golden warning of America’s fall

Contra Trump 金湯之固，非粟不守 In A National Suicide Pact, an earlier chapter in Contra Trump, I observed that China’s ‘Epstein class’ of interconnected privilege, presumption and prestige is hidden behind a system of secrecy that has been rigorously developed and jealously guarded since the Yan’an days of the 1940s.… Read

Other People’s Thoughts, LXXVII

This is the seventy-seventh 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