About China Heritage

China Heritage is a continuation and expansion of the China Heritage Project established by Geremie R. Barmé in 2005 and the e-journal China Heritage Quarterly, which appeared under the auspices of that project from 2005 to 2012.… Read

New China Newspeak 新华文体

This lexicon entry consists of the following sub-sections:
  • Introduction
  • New China 新华
  • New Writing 新文体 and Popular Language 大众语
  • Party & Other Eight-legged Essays 党八股
  • Parody & its Enemies 反讽，恶搞，原味
  • The Spring & Autumn Style 春秋笔法
  • New China Newspeak 一言以兴邦，一言以丧邦
  • Faithfulness, Expressiveness & Elegance 信达雅
    •   Introduction 文體五百歲一變，書體五百歲一變
    ——龔自珍《秦漢石刻文錄序》 This essay, originally published in 2012, is a preliminary attempt to describe what, since the 1980s, some Chinese writers have identified as ‘New China Newspeak’.… Read