Xi Jinping’s Empire of Tedium Appendix XVIII 雙十   The following essay originally appeared on 5 October 2019. As we preciously observed: ‘The 5th October marks the half way point between the 1 October National Day of the People’s Republic on the Chinese mainland and the 10 October celebration of Taiwan’s Republic of China.… Read

Xi Jinping’s Empire of Tedium Chapter XVII 聚 My ‘first Party congress’, that is the first national congress of the Chinese Communist Party of which I was aware and to which I paid attention, was the Ninth Congress held in April 1969.… Read

Shervin Hajipour (شروین حاجی‌پور, born 1997) is an Iranian singer. His song Baraye has been described as ‘the anthem’ of the 2022 Mahsa Amini protests. After the song had gained over forty million views on Shervin’s Instagram page in the space of a few days, the singer was detained by the authorities.… Read

Xi Jinping’s Empire of Tedium Appendix XVII 點 China Heritage marks the national days of the two Chinas — 1 October 2022 on the mainland People’s Republic of China and 10 October 2022 on Taiwan’s Republic of China — with the crew of EyeCTV 眼球中央電視台.… Read

Watching China Watching & Xi Jinping’s Empire of Tedium
Appendix XVI 覿   In January 2018, we launched an ongoing series titled Watching China Watching. Over nearly five years we have published a number of essays and reflections on studying the Chinese world and approaches to understanding the Chinese People’s Republic.… Read

Jottings in New Sinology    China Heritage marks New Zealand Chinese Language Week 2022 (25 September-1 October 2022) by reprinting a poem and a series of tweets by Chris Tse, New Zealand’s poet laureate (2022-2024), as well as a report by Eda Tang for Stuff News.… Read