Contra Trump When I see a bird that quacks like a duck, walks like a duck, has feathers and webbed feet and associates with ducks—I’m certainly going to assume that he is a duck.… Read

Celebrating New Sinology 狗蛋誌異 The culture of Qi-Lu 齊魯, modern-day Shandong province, brackets the Chinese tradition. At one end there are thinkers like Confucius, Zhuangzi and Mencius, while at the other is Pu Songling (蒲松齡, 1640-1715).… Read

Intersecting with Eternity  上善若水   Intersecting with Eternity is a mini-anthology of literary and artistic works, both past and present, that form part of an unbroken stream of human awareness and poetic self-reflection.… Read

This is the sixty-third chapter in Other People’s Thoughts, a China Heritage series inspired by a compilation of quotations put together by Simon Leys (Pierre Ryckmans), one of our Ancestors, during his reading life.… Read

Celebrating New Sinology 西湖屎蘤   山外青山樓外樓，
西湖歌舞幾時休。 暖風熏得遊人醉，
直把杭州作汴州。 Beyond the hills blue hills, beyond the pavilions mansions yet —
singing and dancing on West lake — will there ever be an end?… Read

Contra Trump 後人哀之
而不鑒之 ‘There is no reason why Israel cannot also become Pharoah.’ — Yeshayahu Leibowitz Tisha b’Av (the Ninth of Av), which in 2025 falls on 2-3 August, is regarded as the saddest day in the Jewish calendar.… Read