Xi Jinping’s Empire of Tedium Chapter XIV 冀 前後左右   Chairman Mao has taught us to be constantly on the look out for new developments in the class struggle and to study every move in class conflict within the ideological sphere.… Read

Xi Jinping’s Empire of Tedium Chapter XI 牆國荒誕字
一把辛酸淚   In the Xi Jinping era, the term Great Power 強國 qiáng guó, literally ‘powerful nation’, is a commonplace term for China itself.… Read

Intersecting with Eternity   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 Tower of Reading 念樓中秋   The Fifteenth Day of the Eighth Month of the lunar calendar, a day that in 2024 falls on the 17th of September, marks the Mid Autumn Festival 中秋節.… Read

Watching China Watching   Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom is a historian who, among other things, is noted for his scholarship and media engagement regarding student protests, both past and present. As I noted in May Fourth at 105 — Protest, Resistance, Repression: Jeff and I got to know each other when working on The Gate of Heavenly Peace, a documentary film about the 1989 Protest Movement in China.… Read

Xi Jinping’s Empire of Tedium 二十八畫先生忌日   In 2024, we mark the anniversary of Mao Zedong’s death in the company of Dai Qing (戴晴, 1941-), a renowned writer, environmental activist and China’s first post-Mao historical investigative journalist.… Read