Viral Alarm The Truth — searching for it, uncovering it, speaking about it, debating its significance and insisting on it — lies at the heart of Viral Alarm — China Heritage Annual 2020 which is devoted to the 2019-2020 coronavirus crisis in China and the subsequent global pandemic.… Read

Viral Alarm We are reprinting the following open letter signed by scholars of China and senior political figures as part of Viral Alarm — China Heritage Annual 2020, a work related to the 2019-2020 Covid-19 crisis and the dilemmas confronting China and the world.… Read

Viral Alarm On 7-8 April 2020, people around the world were able to see a perigean full moon, that is a full moon that coincides with the orbiting moon’s closest approach to Earth.… Read

Viral Alarm The Fourth of April 2020 marks the day for ‘sweeping the tombs’ 掃墓, a time in which respect is paid to the recently deceased, loved ones and forebears. Known since ancient times as Qingming 清明, ‘Clear and Bright’, it is commemorated annually on the Eighth Day of the Third Month of the traditional lunar calendar.… Read

Viral Alarm ‘The Stone Monkey’ was translated by Herbert Allen Giles and included in his Chinese Fairy Tales, originally published in 1911. It is based on a famous episode in Journey to the West 西遊記, also known in English as Monkey, a sixteenth-century novel by Wu Cheng’en 吳承恩.… Read

獨夫之心 日益驕固   The title of this essay is taken from a line in one of the most famous poems in the Chinese tradition related to the overweening autocrat and thwarted imperial ambition.… Read