The Other China 物の哀れ   On this first day of the northern autumn (and spring in the southern hemisphere), we follow a celebration of Lao Shu’s summer with some reflections on the new season.… Read

The Other China 處暑   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 洪水滔天，無息壤以堙之   Liu Chan 劉蟾, who also goes by the literary sobriquet 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

The Other China 輕搖一扇，驅散秋老虎   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

Celebrating New Sinology 高山仰止 This is a paean to a unique collection of Classical Chinese prose written by Kenneth Leong, a self-styled ‘renegade professor’. Published in 1695, The Finest of Ancient Prose 《古文觀止》 has guided, enlightened and uplifted students and readers for over three centuries.… Read

Celebrating New Sinology 十年河東，十年河西   It is ten years to the day since I drove from Wellington to the small town of Featherston in the foothills of the Remutaka Range leading to The Wairarapa.… Read