Xi Jinping’s Empire of Tedium, Appendix V 撼   Assignment: China is a multipart documentary series focussed on the journalists who have described the remarkable changes in China since the 1940s.… Read

Xi Jinping’s Empire of Tedium, Appendix V 迓 Jianying Zha 查建英 wrote her short story ‘Homage to Richard Nixon’ in Hong Kong in 2000. It first appeared in ChinaFile in August 2021.… Read

Xi Jinping’s Empire of Tedium, Appendix V 蒞 Chen Jo-hsi (陳若曦, 1938-) was an established writer from Taiwan when she and her husband decided to relocate from the United States to China, just as the Cultural Revolution was engulfing the country.… Read

Xi Jinping’s Empire of Tedium, a Tally 單 The threnody of the Xi Jinping decade is tedium, something born of the ceaseless oscillations within China’s hermetically sealed system and it signals its deadening presence through reversals and the glum repetition of various tropes of the past.… Read

Xi Jinping’s Empire of Tedium, Appendix IV 闔 In 1999, the restaurateur and cultural impresario Michelle Garnaut opened a new venture in Shanghai. M on the Bund 米氏西餐廳在上海外灘 was located in the Nissin Shipping Building on The Bund 上海外灘日清大樓七樓.… Read

Xi Jinping’s Empire of Tedium, Appendix III 霸 Political power struggles in the People’s Republic of China have an ineluctable rhythm. Every five to ten years the quotidian thrum of wrangling reaches a dramatic crescendo as the contention between individuals, factions and elites is focussed on the spoils of power.… Read