Journal

The State of the Sino-American Pas de Deux in 2021

Spectres & Souls Vignettes, moments and meditations
on China and America, 1861-2021   We have previously compared the relationship between the United States and the People’s Republic of China to the Apache Dance, a Parisian stage act famous at the Moulin Rouge in the early twentieth century.… Read

Introducing Xu Zhangrun’s Ten Letters from a Year of Plague

Viral Alarm Viral Alarm, the theme of China Heritage Annual 2020, was inspired by ‘When Fury Overcomes Fear’, an impassioned critique of Xi Jinping, his government and their disastrous initial response to the COVID-19 epidemic written by Professor Xu Zhangrun 許章潤.… Read

Better Angels, Persistent Demons — Part II

China Heritage Annual 2021 Spectres & Souls: Vignettes, moments and meditations
on China and America, 1861-2021 Introduction, Part II   Spectres & Souls: China Heritage Annual 2021 has its origins in 1985.… Read

Other People’s Thoughts, XIX

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

Better Angels, Persistent Demons — Part I

Introducing China Heritage Annual 2021 Spectres & Souls:
Vignettes, moments and meditations
on China and America, 1861-2021   In ‘The Invisible Republic of the Spirit’, the preface to China Heritage Annual 2021, we noted that this would be a year replete with significant anniversaries, both in China and the United States of America.… Read