From the Dark Side of the Moon

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

Yinfi on How China’s Velvet Prison Goes Global

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

Other People’s Thoughts, LXXV

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

Empty Mao Suits & a Soulless Trump — No Chairmen, No Kings

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

    In the Field of My Heart

    The Other China 心田 It is because he is free from striving that no one in the world can strive against him’ — this line from Tao Te Ching encapsulates the spirit of the following selection of works by Lao Shu 老樹, the nom de plume of Liu Shuyong (劉樹勇, 1962-).… Read