The Other China Liu Chan 劉蟾, who also goes by the pen name Dasheng 大生, is a writer, scholar and calligrapher. Born in Shaanxi, he lives in Beijing where he edits The Chinese Study 中國書房.… Read

Contra Trump 無恥之尤   China Heritage first became aware of Randy Rainbow’s talent for political satire during the 2016 Republican Party presidential primaries when he lampooned such drop-in-the-pan wannabes as Carly Fiorina, Jeb Bush, Ben Carson, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz and John Kasich.… Read

Intersecting with Eternity 但願人長久，千里共嬋娟   Artemis II was a ten-day lunar flyby mission launched on 1 April 2026. It was the first crewed flight that travelled beyond low Earth orbit since Apollo 17 in 1972.… Read

Seeds of Fire 全球畫地為牢 Yinfi is the artistic persona of Yin Lu, a UK-based screen composer, speaker and performing artist who described himself as ‘a Chinese citizen embracing individual liberties’. His performances feature songs whose ‘lyrics preserving memories erased by the Chinese authorities’.… Read

This is the seventy-fifth 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

Contra Trump 越瘦秦肥   The focus of this chapter of Contra Trump is No Kings Day, 28 March 2026. We featured earlier mass protests against Donald J. Trump’s rule organised under the banner of No Kings in:

貳佰伍 — No Kings Day

How “No Kings” Betrays 1776

Here we commemorate the mass demonstrations with an essay by Chris Hedges in which he comments on the empty heart of America’s autocrat.… Read