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.…
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Xi Jinping’s Empire of Tedium
Appendix XIII
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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.…
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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.…
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Xi Jinping’s Empire of Tedium
Appendix XII
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On 1 July 2017, China Heritage marked the twentieth anniversary of mainland China extending suzerainty over Hong Kong with a series of translations, commentaries and art works.…
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We Need to Talk About Totalitarianism, Again
Who are those hooded hordes swarming
Over endless plains, stumbling in cracked earth
Ringed by the flat horizon
What is the city over the mountains
Cracks and reforms and bursts in the violet air
Falling towers…
— from ‘V.…
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Xi Jinping’s Empire of Tedium
Appendix XI
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On 30 May 2017, China Heritage published ‘The Double Fifth and the Archpoet’, a commemoration of the annual Chinese lunar Double Fifth Festival 端五節 and a celebration of dissent, both past and present.…
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