Other People’s Thoughts is a section in the Journal of the China Heritage site. It is inspired by a compilation of quotations put together by Simon Leys (Pierre Ryckmans), one of our Ancestors, during his reading life.… Read

Xi Jinping’s Empire of Tedium
Appendix XV 零 As Xi Jinping, China’s party-state-army leader, consolidated power in 2013, he established more and more ‘special leading groups’ which allowed him to meld his role as the primus-inter-pares leader of the Communist Party with the functions of civilian government.… Read

Watching China Watching
Chapter XXXVII   Steve Tsang is the Director of the China Institute of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Prior to 2016, he was the Head of the School of Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Nottingham, and before that a Professorial Fellow at St Antony’s College, Oxford.… Read

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