Seeds of Fire 40th Anniversary   China Heritage was launched on 15 December 2016 at a conference about ‘Political Enchantments: aesthetic practices and the Chinese state’. Invited to present the opening address I addressed the theme of Living with Xi Dada’s China — making choices and cutting deals.… Read

The Other China 鴨騙戰爭 ‘If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.’ Unless, of course, the duck is being sold as goose drumsticks.… Read

The Other China 書房對聯   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

The Other China 首倡義舉 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

This is the seventy-ninth 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

Seeds of Fire 40th Anniversary 一脈相承 The 4th of June 2026 marks thirty seven years since the Chinese authorities deployed the army to violently suppress the nationwide Protest Movement of 1989 and the date June Fourth 六四 lives on in infamy as the day of the Beijing Massacre.… Read