Xi Jinping’s Empire of Tedium Appendix XXIV 職責 One of the most common aphorisms in the Chinese lexicon of national identity and patriotism reads: 天下興亡匹夫有責。 ‘Everyone is duty bound to take responsibility for the wellbeing of society.’… Read

Xi Jinping’s Empire of Tedium Appendix XXIII 空白   All decadent ideology and other incongruous parts of the super-structure are crumbling as the days go by. To clear away the rubbish completely will still take some time, but there is no doubt of their inevitable and total collapse.… Read

Xi Jinping’s Empire of Tedium
Chapter XXII 官逼民反   ‘Tears of sorrow are flowing from the Far West
of China to the seaboard in the East.’ 熱淚從中國的最西一直流到中國的最東。 A line circulating on Chinese social media captured the mood of sorrow following a fire in a residential high-rise in Urumqi, Xinjiang, on Thursday the 24th of November 2022. … Read

Xi Jinping’s Empire of Tedium  A Postscript 未 When I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four years to go, I think.… Read

Xi Jinping’s Empire of Tedium Chapter XXI 醒   Awakenings is Oliver Sacks’s 1993 account of a group of patients who contracted sleeping-sickness during the great epidemic just after World War I.… Read