Watching China Watching
Chapter XXXVI & Xi Jinping’s Empire of Tedium
Appendix XIV 窺 Charles Parton is a senior fellow at the Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS). He served for thirty-seven years in the UK diplomatic service, with over twenty of those years spent dealing with China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.… Read

In the Xu Zhangrun Archive In the introduction to From Heaps of Ashes 劫灰 Xu Zhangrun 許章潤 quotes from ‘Our Only Umbrella’, an essay by Pierre Ryckmans that was originally presented as an address to celebrate the 2002 New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards in Sydney, Australia.… Read

New Sinology Jottings We last encountered Lao Shu in the virtual pages of China Heritage when commemorating Dai Qing 戴晴. We also featured his work when introducing Making a Case for Humanity Over Banditry 《人間不是匪幫》, a collection of essays on China’s forever crisis by Xu Zhangrun 許章潤.… Read

In the Xu Zhangrun Archive   The legal scholar Xu Zhangrun is a prominent specialist in constitutional jurisprudence. He was formerly a professor in the Faculty of Law at Tsinghua University, Director of the Centre for Research on the Rule of Law and Human Rights at that institution, editor-in-chief of the series Tsinghua Law Studies and special fellow at the Unirule Institute of Economics 天則經濟研究所.… Read

Xi Jinping’s Empire of Tedium
Appendix XIII 專 In July 2018, the Tsinghua University professor Xu Zhangrun published a point-by-point critique of the Chinese Communist Party and Xi Jinping, its Chairman of Everything.… Read

Hong Kong Apostasy The noted Hong Kong writer Ni Kuang passed away on 3 July 2022, two days after Beijing and its Hong Kong avatars had anemically celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of regime change in the territory.… Read