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
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
Celebrating New Sinology
China Heritage marks the fifth year since COVID-19 infected China and swept the world by reproducing the following essay published online by Xu Zhangrun 許章潤 on 4 February 2020.… Read
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
Celebrating New Sinology
辭龍迎蛇
A certain wariness surrounds the Snake, one of the twelve zoological signs of the traditional Chinese calendar, and not only because the reptile inspires fear and repulsion.… Read