The Tower of Reading

唸樓 The Tower of Reading series in China Heritage was launched on 10 February 2024, the First Day of the First Month of the Jiachen Year of the Dragon 甲辰龍年正月初一. We also created a new masthead for our site featuring a photograph made at The Temple, Shatan, Beijing, by Lois Conner.… Read

The Other China

The Other China is not the China of stentorian slogans, cutting barbs, sarcastic put-downs. It is not the China of clichéd patriotism and exaggerated public performance; nor is it the China of crude stereotypes and bottomless grievance.… Read

Readings in New Sinology

New Sinology is a Sinology that combines fluency in the practices of the ‘China Studies’ that developed during the Cold War and the academic disciplines that have flourished in academic institutions world wide.… Read

Xi Jinping’s Empire of Tedium

It is five years since we announced the launching of China Heritage at the end of a speech titled Living with Xi Dada’s China — Making Choices and Cutting Deals and published A Monkey King’s Journey to the East, the inaugural article in our online journal.… Read

Spectres & Souls

Vignettes, moments and meditations on
China and America, 1861-2021 We quoted this line from the I Ching in ‘On Heritage 遺’, an essay composed as the formal rationale underpinning China Heritage, an e-journal launched on 1 January 2017.… Read

Viral Alarm

China Heritage Annual 2020 ‘Viral Alarm’ is the title of China Heritage Annual 2020. This series focuses on the COVID-19/ Coronavirus/ Wuhan Influenza epi- / pandemic and its significance both in China as well as in China in the world.… Read