The Tunnel

Chen Jo-hsi Early in July Nanking launched a ‘Good Men, Good Deeds’ movement and Master Hung, a retired worker, was selected by his neighborhood committee as a ‘Good Man’ and given the additional designation of ‘model old man.’… Read

February 1972: Nixon’s Press Corps

尼克松的記者團 Chen Jo-hsi 陳若曦 The bugle calls blaring from the loudspeakers that greeted our arrival at school in the morning seemed to be louder and more insistent than usual. Just as we were wondering what it was all about, one of the teachers told us that an emergency meeting of all departments had been called.… Read

1984: 面影

白杰明 In the early 1980s, I frequently visited Nanking where I was befriended by the playwright Chen Baichen 陳白塵 and the scholars Yang Yi 杨苡, the sister of Yang Xianyi, and Zhao Ruihong 赵瑞蕻.… Read

1987: The Gardens of Jiangnan

On Reading Tung Chuin’s A Record of the Gardens of Jiangnan http://www.chinaheritagequarterly.org/features.php?searchterm=020_huang_shang.inc&issue=020 Huang Shang 黃裳 Translated by Duncan Campbell Huang Shang is one of the most noted bibliophiles and book collectors of the People’s Republic.[1]… Read

June 1974: A Conversation with Four Historians

Frederic Wakeman, Jr. In June 1974, I spent a month in the People’s Republic of China as an interpreter and cultural advisor with the herbal pharmacology delegation from the United States Academy of Sciences.… Read

About China Heritage Annual

China Heritage Annual is a new series produced by China Heritage, the online home of The Wairarapa Academy for New Sinology 清漪書院. Along with the China Heritage Journal it is a successor to China Heritage Quarterly, an e-publication produced under the aegis of the China Heritage Project from 2005 to 2012.… Read