Xi Jinping’s Empire of Tedium 動亂、亂動   This storm was bound to come sooner or later. This is determined by the major international climate and China’s own minor climate. It was bound to happen and is independent of man’s will.… Read

Xi Jinping’s Empire of Tedium Appendix XLIII 期頤佞者   ‘Of course, these people are murderous thugs, but this should not affect our good relations.’ — Henry Kissinger   Saturday 27th May 2023 marks the centenary of Henry A.… Read

Xi Jinping’s Empire of Tedium Appendix XLII 溫故而知新
可以為師矣   Eighty years ago T.S. Eliot published ‘Little Gidding’, part of Four Quartets, a cycle of poems. It contains the following famous lines: We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.… Read

The Other China 引清風   The following celebration of bamboo is inspired by the calligraphy of Liu Chan 劉蟾 and features the scholarship of Duncan Campbell as well as the art of Lois Conner.… Read

Watching China Watching XL 東張西望   Since the 1980s, the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc have loomed large in our work on China’s People’s Republic. Historians, thinkers and social critics from the Soviet era, and those who continued to study USSR/Russian affairs as well as the Central and Eastern European world following the dissolution of the Soviet Bloc in the 1990s, have similarly offered unique insights into the Chinese party-state.… Read

Hong Kong Apostasy 冠冕堂皇   King Charles III will be coronated on Saturday [6 May 2023], and you’ll never guess who China is sending for the occasion: Vice President Han Zheng, the former head of Beijing’s Central Leading Group on Hong Kong and Macau Affairs.… Read