Seeds of Fire, Mike Brock, Alan Watts and the Tao

Seeds of Fire at Forty 道生一，一生二，
二生三，三生萬物 In this chapter of Seeds of Fire, a series that commemorates the fortieth anniversary of the publication of Seeds of Fire: Chinese Voices of Conscience (Hong Kong: Far Eastern Economic Review, 1986), we follow up on The Longest Relay, an essay by Mike Brock — a prolific thinker and cultural commentator — that we published to mark the anniversary of June Fourth in 2026.… Read

Through the China Watching Looking Glass

Watching China Watching 不出戶，知天下
不窺牖，見天道   China Heritage launched the series Watching China Watching in January 2018. In it we offer essays and reflections on studying the Chinese world and approaches to understanding the Chinese People’s Republic.… Read

Other People’s Thoughts LXXXVIII

This is the eighty 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

Persimmons and Lao Shu’s Existential Autumn

The Other China 向前看 Lao Shu 老樹 is the nom de plume of Liu Shuyong (劉樹勇, 1962-), a Beijing-based artist, writer, critic and professor in communications. His artistic voice is unique and personal, its tenor, whimsy and profundity evoke what for decades we have called The Other China — a cultural noosphere that is as undeniably local as it is universal.… Read