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

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

Empires of Tedium 親敵背盟戰無休
天選之子有奇謀
川皇如今罵不得
像是明日蒞神州 Enemies embraced, allies betrayed, endless war;
The Chosen One plots and plans very much more.
Careful though — cuss not this Emperor Trump!
— tomorrow he lands on this Holy Land’s shores.… Read

The Other China   Lao Shu 老樹, the nom de plume of Liu Shuyong (劉樹勇, 1962-) is a Beijing-based artist, writer and critic whose works are featured in The Other China.… Read

Contra Trump 禮崩樂壞 We share the pathologies of all dying empires with their mixture of buffoonery, rampant corruption, military fiascos, economic collapse and savage state repression. — Chris Hedges, quoted in Death Wish — Promises Made, Promises Kept, 16 February 2026 *** A renowned journalist, writer, commentator and broadcaster, Chris Hedges has featured in China Heritage over the years, as well as in our Contra Trump — America’s Empire of Tedium series, which we launched on the eve of the 2024 Presidential Election.… Read