Other People’s Thoughts This is the fiftieth 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

The Other China 天下本來無事，糾結只在人心。
以為有分有別，其實無古無今。 The world itself is without strife, it’s just people’s hearts that make it so. As for all of those differences and distinctions, in reality there is neither the past nor the present.… Read

Xi Jinping’s Empire of Tedium Chapter II
Part II 古今多少事，都付笑談中   During Mid Autumn Festival 2024, Xu Zhangrun, legal scholar, Xi Jinping critic, purged academic and one of Beijing’s defiant Former People, was able to meet up with Jifeng 季風, a vagabond democracy activist.… Read

From the Xu Zhangrun Archive 老子不服，老子不怕   On 10 October 2024, we mark the Double Ten Festival of the Republic on China by reprinting I Will Not Submit, I Will Not Be Cowed, part of our series Xu Zhangrun vs.… Read

Watching China Watching 以其昏昏 使人昭昭   In 1949, the civil war on mainland China entered its final phase. The People’s Liberation Army under the command of the Communist Party was on the march to overthrow the Republic of China under the leadership of Chiang Kai-shek and his Nationalist Party.… Read

Xi Jinping’s Empire of Tedium Chapter VIII 中軸   On 27 July 2024, the 46th session of the World Heritage Committee in New Delhi, India, announced that ‘Beijing Central Axis: A Building Ensemble Exhibiting the Ideal Order of the Chinese Capital’ had been inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List.… Read