Index – China Heritage

Index

2026 • 2025 • 2024 • 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016

2026

January 2 - 1 January 2026 — a Masthead for The Year of the Horse
January 1 - 31 December 2025 — Lao Shu at Year’s End

2025

December 31 - Farewelling 2025, Remembering Wang Kang
December 30 - Other People’s Thoughts LXXI
December 29 - What’s in a Word? — Geremie R. Barmé discusses New Sinology
December 27 - Monuments That Time Cannot Erode
December 23 - My Belief & die Scheinwelt
December 21 - To the West there’s a Great Eastern Power
December 18 - Other People’s Thoughts LXX
December 17 - Bracing for Impact — bad infinity and a denouement in three acts
December 15 - And Still I Rise — Xu Zhangrun writes of Surprise and Awe
December 10 - It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like F This — Randy Rainbow’s 2025 Xmas Gift
December 10 - My Father Bao Tong — Part III
December 8 - Great Power Insecurities — on the national security strategy of a flailing state
December 2 - Other People’s Thoughts LXIX
November 30 - Lord Don’t Move the Mountain
November 28 - No Thanks Given — the poet Jianli on a celebration of American amnesia
November 25 - When to Cherish Virtue is an Indictment — the poet Jianli on Donald Trump’s America
November 24 - On the ‘Epstein Class’
November 20 - My Father Bao Tong — Part II
November 19 - Hemail Peril
November 15 - My Father Bao Tong
November 14 - Other People’s Thoughts LXVIII
November 11 - So starts the winter … Lao Shu asks: ‘Head off for hotpot or head into the hills?’
November 8 - Proof of Life — Xu Zhangrun in Barbed Wire
November 6 - The Ji Clan at Mar-a-Lago
November 5 - Going off the Rails with Jianying Zha
October 31 - Halloween 2025 — Tedium to the Left, Tedium to the Right
October 30 - Double Brightness and the Fag-end of Autumn with Lao Shu
October 27 - When Cats Sleep, Perchance to Dream
October 26 - History Makes Way for a Brooklyn Baroque Catering Hall
October 21 - The Magic Christian & a Reign of Scheiße
October 20 - How “No Kings” Betrays 1776
October 15 - Other People’s Thoughts LXVII
October 10 - Visiting Tao Yuanming in the Autumn
October 8 - Amidst the Cascade of Inhumanities
October 6 - Mid Autumn Festival 2025
October 5 - A Century of Gore
October 3 - ‘Break a leg’, that’s not just an old saw. Notes on the 2025 Riyadh Comedy Festival
September 29 - Other People’s Thoughts LXVI
September 25 - Xu Zhangrun Mourns Jerome Cohen
September 23 - Still Dissenting from Ba Jin
September 19 - Cancel Culture
September 18 - America’s Grievances Against Its “King” on Constitution Day 2025
September 14 - “An ambassador is an honest gentleman sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.”
September 13 - I Met God at the Supermarket
September 10 - Other People’s Thoughts LXV
September 7 - Dignity, Decency and the Lies of the Present
September 2 - 70-20-10 and the Parading of Lies in Beijing on 3 September 2025
August 31 - The Narcotic Narcissism of Official History in Trump’s America and Xi Jinping’s China
August 30 - Underground Elegies — on a China that won’t be silent
August 28 - Other People’s Thoughts LXIV
August 26 - The Duck of American Fascism
August 19 - The Strange Tales of Aladdin Dogballs
August 15 - This is Water — ‘the only choice we get is what to worship’
August 12 - Other People’s Thoughts LXIII
August 7 - Turd Blossoms on West Lake
August 2 - Tisha b’Av 2025 — The Weeping Prophet and Israel’s Immanent Critics
August 1 - A Considerable Speck
July 25 - Other People’s Thoughts LXII
July 24 - Jianying Zha: “I am no longer one of The People.”
July 18 - Beyond the Whispers — China Watching in a New Era of Pekingology
July 15 - Even Now, It Still Pays to Look Back
July 13 - Broken Engagement — US-China Experts in Recovery
July 10 - Other People’s Thoughts LXI
July 8 - Sam Kriss on his Zombie Era — flow & aura farming the end days
July 5 - The Fourth of July 2025 & the Enemy Within
July 2 - America — History Can’t Judge & It Certainly Won’t Absolve
June 29 - Other People’s Thoughts LX
June 24 - Surveillance States — when Xi’s China & Trump’s America see eye to eye
June 21 - Resisting the Trump Regime — advice from 1965 Taiwan
June 17 - Misplaced Faith in the Social Sciences & the Abiding Lessons of New Sinology
June 15 - 貳佰伍 — No Kings Day
June 13 - Donald Trump’s Celebration of Civil War
June 12 - At a Crossroad — protests, birthdays and boiling frogs
June 11 - ‘Tell me the tale of a man …’ — in search of a destination that may no longer even exist
June 10 - Amerikanisches Narrenschiff — a Ship of Fools & the Rule of Idiots
June 9 - A Fierce Independence of Mind — The Other America
June 6 - Other People’s Thoughts LIX
June 5 - Searching for Solitary Fellowship — paintings and poems by Lao Shu
June 4 - Sympathy for the Devil in China, America and Russia
June 1 - Dies Irae — June Fourth 2025
May 31 - Billionaire Dilettantes
May 26 - 25 May 2025, Centenary of ‘The Monkey Trial’
May 20 - Trump’s Gaza — a tech fascist casino built atop the disaster capitalism of genocide and mass displacement
May 16 - Why I’m Resigning
May 15 - Other People’s Thoughts LVIII
May 12 - ‘So it Begins, with the Written Word’ — Xu Zhangrun Accepts a Human Rights Award
May 10 - Lao Shu’s Scattered Petals
May 7 - One Hundred Days of the Trump Restoration
May 4 - May Fourth 2025 in Erewhon & the Enemies of the Open Society
May 2 - Homo deus — Xiao Shu on Elon Musk’s War
May 1 - This Fleeting Year
April 30 - Other People’s Thoughts LVII
April 28 - Hic sunt dracones — independent spirits and unfettered minds
April 26 - Hollow Men and Wooden People in Xi’s China and Trump’s America
April 25 - Benito Milhous Caligula — a Reign of Corruption, Caprice and Cruelty
April 23 - FYI: Chinese Trump Doesn’t Give a Fuck
April 21 - ‘I envy clouds their freedom.’ — Lao Shu
April 18 - A static hiss in the algorithm’s perfect hum.
April 16 - The Lessons of Orbán’s Hungary for Trump’s America, according to Miklós Haraszti
April 10 - ‘Go fuck yourself. With a French press, Bill.’
April 8 - Like the devil, vampires, and the more timid varieties of ghost, fascism must be invited in.
April 4 - Twenty Lessons for a Nation Sleepwalking into Autocracy
April 1 - Eight Years On
March 31 - The Third Day of the Third Month — a chastening reflection
March 30 - Other People’s Thoughts LVI
March 28 - Dwell not in a Country that is in Turmoil — an Historian’s Warning
March 26 - A Glum Convergence — Donald J. Trump & Xi Jinping
March 25 - Market Tides and Shifting Political Sands in Higher Ed
March 24 - ‘The brute has invaded the grove’ — Trump-era universities & the echoes of China
March 21 - T2 — two months, twenty-two cartoons
March 20 - TDS Down Under — Drongology and the Conga Line of Suck-holes
March 19 - America’s Catatonic Constitution
March 17 - ‘We’ll Dream of Being Blind’
March 14 - American Juche
March 9 - March of the Bootlickers in a State of Disunion
March 6 - ‘We Let This Guy Defy Democracy’ — Randy Rainbow Soars
March 5 - Liu Chan’s Studiolo of the Heart
February 28 - Other People’s Thoughts LV
February 26 - Edgelords & Besserwissers
February 26 - Australia’s Unfinished Twentieth Century
February 25 - Qualis rex, talis grex
February 24 - Loitering in this Dusty Realm — paintings and poems by Lao Shu
February 22 - ‘I will not back down. I will not bow or scrape. I will never obey.’ — An Open Letter to Elon Musk
February 20 - Ready Player One — the Narrenschiff of American Gods
February 19 - Gödel’s Loophole and American’s ‘Cultural Revolution’
February 18 - A New Yorker Centenary
February 17 - An Absolute Personal Faith
February 16 - Death Wish — Promises Made, Promises Kept
February 14 - Triumph of the Cod Philosophers and their Dark Enlightenment
February 12 - The Lantern Festival in the Year of the Snake
February 11 - Duh! Of course it is a Coup — an Auto-golpe
February 11 - Backlash Blues in Black History Month 2025
February 7 - Other People’s Thoughts LIV
February 6 - Q. & A. on Xi Jinping, from 2015
February 6 - America’s Real Cold War
February 3 - The General Secretary’s New Clothes & Five Years of Viral Alarm
January 31 - When the Anaconda is the Chandelier
January 29 - Lofty Aspirations & Modest Wishes for the Year of the Snake
January 28 - The Dragon Gives Way to the Snake
January 27 - From Lao Shu’s Studio of Drunken Dreams
January 25 - ‘Stupid, stupid, stupid’ — A.A. Gill on The Golden Door
January 22 - Trump’s Inauguration — Can we call it fascism yet?
January 19 - T2 – A Feature, Not a Bug
January 17 - Other People’s Thoughts LIII
January 8 - 6 January 2021 to 6 January 2025 — America’s Slow-rolling Autogolpe
January 5 - Watching Taiwan from Australia — Eight Reminders for the Year of the Snake
January 1 - Sisyphus in 2025 — Lao Shu’s New Year

2024

December 31 - Keeping Ahead of the Game — Lao Shu Farewells 2024
December 30 - 1954 — China’s Dark Enlightenment, Hu Shih & the Nobility of Failure
December 22 - Other People’s Thoughts LII
December 20 - Jimmy Lai — 2024 Person of the Year
December 17 - ‘I Think I’m Gonna Hate It Here’ — Randy Rainbow introduces the clown-car cabinet of MAGADU
December 11 - As the Year Flitters Away — Lao Shu’s Autumnal Hues
December 3 - Those 107 Days
November 28 - Other People’s Thoughts LI
November 23 - The American Green Zone in Our Consciousness
November 20 - In Celebration of Benny Tai, Gwyneth Ho & a Fallen Hong Kong
November 19 - An Elegiac Eulogy from Unf*cking The Republic
November 17 - Trump Redux — Who Goes Nazi Now?
November 15 - Trump is cholera. His hate, his lies – it’s an infection that’s in the drinking water now.
November 11 - A Political Monster Straight Out of Grendel
November 10 - The Great Red Wall — A Remarkable Coalition of the Disgruntled
November 9 - If you elect a cretin once, you’ve made a mistake. If you elect him twice, you’re the cretin.
November 8 - What seeds can I plant in this muck?
November 7 - Unless we ourselves are The Barbarians …
November 4 - Waiting for the Barbarians in a Garbage Time of History
November 1 - MAGADU — Kubla Khan, Xanadu & the 2024 American presidential election
October 28 - Other People’s Thoughts L
October 16 - Only ever one step away — Lao Shu’s travels in time and space
October 12 - On and On the Great River Rolls — Xu Zhangrun in Beijing, an undaunted Former Person
October 11 - ‘Facing the Republic’ — on the 10th of October 2024
October 6 - China’s Rising Miasma — the fog around information, analysis and understanding
October 1 - 1 October 2024 — Beijing Reoriented
September 29 - Other People’s Thoughts XLIX
September 27 - Han Suyin, Two-faced People and China Experts in a Yin-Yang Nation
September 22 - The Absurdities of China’s Locked-in Syndrome
September 18 - An Express Delivery from the Tang Dynasty
September 17 - Mid Autumn Festival in The Tower of Reading
September 13 - To Go or Not to Go — Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom on his China Conundrum
September 11 - Observing 9 September 2024, Mao’s Deathday, with Dai Qing
September 3 - When the Guest Departs, the Tea Goes Cold
August 30 - To an Erstwhile Friend
August 28 - Other People’s Thoughts XLVIII
August 26 - On a bed of blossoms, dreams take me to the Tang
August 11 - Recalling an Expert ‘China Expert’
August 8 - That Olive Tree in my Dreams
August 4 - In my tear-wracked Solitude
July 31 - Other People’s Thoughts XLVII
July 20 - Tao Yuanming — Feckless Sons, Poet-Readers and Garbage Time
July 13 - Lao Shu — roaming through Tang-Song landscapes with my Wei-Jin brothers
July 11 - Tao Yuanming — Substance, Shadow, Spirit
July 5 - Michael Szonyi on the Ming dynasty, research work in China today and the US-China relationship
July 2 - After the Fall — Hong Kong Apostasy in 2024
July 1 - Lao Shu — an artist in all seasons
June 29 - Other People’s Thoughts XLVI
June 28 - ‘Profoundly indignant. Longstandingly indignant. Dignifiedly indignant.’ — Simon Leys & George Orwell, Part II
June 24 - Un-level Playing Fields — Doping, Sydney then and Paris now
June 21 - Nineteen Eighty-Four — Simon Leys on George Orwell in 1984
June 14 - Fifteen Years of China’s Prosperous Age
June 13 - Ethical Dilemmas — notes for academics who deal with Xi Jinping’s China
June 12 - On China’s Editor-Censors
June 11 - Chinese Visions: A Provocation
June 10 - Have We Been Noticed Yet?
June 10 - The Revolution of Resistance
June 9 - Time’s Arrows
June 5 - June Fourth 2024 — Dai Qing, a Former Person who Refused to be Silenced
June 1 - Emperor One Direction — Xi Jinping
May 30 - Kinship of the Soul
May 28 - An Ascension
May 26 - Why Is Chinese So Boring?
May 22 - Mourning Ben Lim — Watching China Watching
May 21 - Other People’s Thoughts XLV
May 16 - The Persecution of Teacher Li, who is not your teacher
May 8 - Captive Minds & Academic Angst on May Fourth 2024
May 4 - May Fourth at Seventy
May 1 - May Fourth at 105 — Protest, Resistance, Repression
April 29 - In Cloudy Mountains, an Impossible Realm
April 27 - Other People’s Thoughts XLIV
April 22 - ‘You are garlic chives!’ — Trisolarans, Burn Book and China’s Men in Black
April 14 - Inspiration & Taste — considering ‘On the Spur of the Moment’
April 11 - On the Spur of the Moment — New Tales of the World
April 2 - Something in the Air — Lao Shu’s Spring
March 30 - Professor Graham ‘Thucydides Trap’ Allison’s Three-Body Problem
March 25 - Other People’s Thoughts XLIII
March 15 - Turn, Turn, Turn — The Lugubrious Merry-go-Round of Chinese Politics
March 10 - Turn, Turn, Turn — The Tyranny of Chinese History
March 4 - Other People’s Thoughts XLII
March 3 - Mourning Alexei Navalny, Shedding Tears for China — Xu Zhangrun
March 1 - Caged Birds and Turd Blossoms in Xi Jinping’s China
February 29 - ‘Do you really think you can eat those pies in the sky?’ — Lao Shu embarks upon the Year of the Dragon
February 27 - ‘If this is what becomes of trees …’ — New Tales of the World
February 25 - 24 February 2024 — 元宵, the End of the Beginning
February 23 - The Use of the Useless — Zhuangzi
February 20 - ‘That which cannot be taken away’ — Analects
February 18 - ‘I’ll drag my tail in the mud’ — Zhuangzi
February 16 - ‘Everything flows like this’ — Analects
February 16 - A Day for Humanity — Ai Song the artist & the poet Xu Zhangrun
February 14 - Am I a Butterfly? — Zhuangzi
February 12 - Between Master & Student — The Analects
February 10 - The Mastheads of China Heritage, 2016-2026
February 10 - Introducing The Tower of Reading
February 9 - Embarking upon the Jiachen Year of the Dragon 甲辰龍年
February 5 - So Starts the Spring
January 31 - Lao Shu’s Farewell to the Year of the Rabbit
January 28 - Other People’s Thoughts XLI
January 27 - 2024 — An Ambitious Dragon’s Nightmare
January 12 - On the Road — Taipei vs. Beijing
January 9 - Xi Jinping’s Silos — the corrosive individualism of collectives
January 5 - ‘I’d like to ride the wind to fly home’, by Wu Fei
January 4 - Lao Shu’s New Year
January 2 - Nutbush City Limits — 2024, Mao, Trump and China Heritage
January 1 - The Obsessions of Zhang Dai

2023

December 31 - You Want It Darker — Farewell 2023, Roll in 2024
December 30 - Drongos and D-words
December 29 - Footnoting moonlight — Qiao Ji on himself
December 27 - Other People’s Thoughts XL
December 26 - A Unabomber Moment, or How We Hurt the Feelings of the Chinese People
December 25 - Jimmy Lai’s Hong Kong Purgatory, Christmas 2023
December 23 - Xi at XI — More Mao Than Ever
December 19 - ‘It’s only the end of the beginning’ — Teacher Li on Blank Pages, Li Keqiang, Snowflakes & Monsters
December 13 - Kissinger — a myth in his own time
December 12 - The Fall of Lao Shu
December 9 - Other People’s Thoughts XXXIX
December 8 - From jail, Xu Zhiyong asks ‘Whither China?’
December 7 - An Award for Professor Xu Zhangrun
December 5 - A Solitary Pursuit — ‘… then begins a journey in my head’
December 4 - What Scares Me — a letter from Kathy on the first anniversary of the Blank Page Movement
December 1 - Chef Wang Makes a Hash of Egg-fried Rice
November 14 - Li Keqiang, the ‘Empty Boat’ of the Xi Jinping Era
November 5 - Monster Mash — Mourning a Dead Premier & Mocking the Ghouls Among the Living
October 23 - Old Landscapes in New Beijing — photographs by Lois Conner
October 21 - Humanism, a Modest Existential Threat to Xi Jinping’s Ideological Security State
October 14 - A Cathedral of Pretence in the Pusillanimous Heart of Xi Jinping’s Empire of Tedium
October 11 - A Note from The Tower of Reading on the Double Tenth, 2023
October 9 - Liu Chan’s Calligraphic Comment on 7 October 2023
October 5 - It Is What It Is — the song ‘Outsize Dreams’ is about Small Hopes in Xi Jinping’s Empire of Tedium
October 2 - 1 October 2023 — Golden Millet Dreams and a Future Long Frustrated
September 28 - Mid-Autumn Festival 2023
September 22 - Other People’s Thoughts, XXXVIII
September 11 - Shades of Mao — Children Spying on Parents, Fragile Hearts in Patriotic Drag and the Fish Wife who Trolled Ukraine
September 8 - Celebrating Geng Xiaonan
September 8 - With Jack Kerouac in Chiang Mai — Planet Speakeasy & The Other China
August 31 - Spectres in the Seventh Month, 30 August 2023
August 27 - A Sermon for the Times
August 23 - The Seventh Night of the Seventh Day of the Seventh Month
August 22 - Ukraine Watching China Watching Ukraine
August 20 - From the White Paper Protest to a White Wall in London
August 11 - Voices from The Other China — Ten Podcasts & Twenty YouTube Channels
August 8 - I’d rather support stray cats in Japan than donate a single penny to China’s disaster relief efforts
August 1 - Other People’s Thoughts, XXXVII
July 28 - The Topsy-turvy Country — China’s Summer Hit
July 25 - Five Years Ago Today — Xu Zhangrun’s Sublime Madness in the Soul
July 19 - ‘Read, read, read. Listen, listen, listen.’ — It’s Never Too Late to Learn Modern and Literary Chinese
July 11 - ‘The Sixth of July’, by Xu Zhangrun — China’s Former People, Part I
July 5 - The Muzak of the Chinese Holocaust — Azalea Mountain on the Party’s birthday, 1 July 2023
June 29 - An Old Tale Retold — The View from Maple Bridge, Part Three
June 25 - Other People’s Thoughts, XXXVI
June 24 - ‘Jesus, you’re such fucking dopes … You are not serious people’ — Flaubert’s Tide of Shit swells in Wellington, New Zealand
June 22 - Huang Yongyu, Lee Yee & Jimmy Lai
June 15 - Yongyu, ave atque vale
June 14 - Tired of Winning Yet, China? — The Band Slap Has Some News for You
June 8 - Communist Chinese Mantras — keywords and the importance of formulaic language
June 5 - In the Company of Cats
June 4 - Other People’s Thoughts, XXXV
June 2 - Back When the Sino-US Cold War Began
May 27 - Kissinger Scores a Century
May 19 - ‘If’ — Ending the Western Presence in China, Then & Now
May 13 - When Bamboo Invites a Zephyr
May 10 - You Can Get Here from There — Soviet historian Stephen Kotkin on Xi Jinping’s China
May 7 - A Bitter Aftertaste — Let Them Eat Coronation Quiche!
May 4 - The Art of Survival in the Age of Xi Jinping
May 1 - Dragging One’s Tail in the Mud on 1 May 2023
April 23 - Don’t Let the Dogs Eat World Book Day
April 23 - Vale — Edna, Les, Sandy & Barry
April 22 - The Passion of Jimmy Lai
April 20 - Dong Zhimin, Xu Zhiyong & Ding Jiaxi — Chen Qiushi on Legalised Rape and Outlawed Dissent in China Today
April 15 - Other People’s Thoughts, XXXIV
April 11 - ‘I Do Not Believe’ — Xu Zhiyong on being jailed, again
April 6 - Return to Vulture Peak — Qingming 2023
March 20 - ‘I am not nostalgic, I want to remember.’ — Lao Shu, spring 2023
March 17 - Hands off Snakey — Teacher Grey’s Chinese Lessons
March 12 - It’s Time for Another Serving of Peking Duck Soup
March 11 - A Landslide Victory Marking the End of the Beginning
March 8 - Craven, Servile Knaves Hold Office
March 7 - The Harry Houdini of Marxist-Leninist regimes; the David Copperfield of Communism; the Criss Angel of autocracy
March 5 - ‘It’s all ruined by the politics.’
February 24 - High Peaks, Translucent Torrents
February 17 - Dizzy with Success — snatching victory from the jaws of Covid defeat
February 12 - Other People’s Thoughts, XXXIII
February 8 - Praise for the Orange Tree, Remembering the Plum
February 7 - On the Third Anniversary of the Passing of Dr. Li Wenliang
February 4 - The View from Maple Bridge — Ah, Humanity!
January 30 - So long as men can breathe or eyes can see
January 28 - A Cultural Apéritif at M on the Bund
January 24 - Rabbiting on with Lao Shu
January 23 - A Protection Mantra for the Year of the Rabbit
January 21 - Now What? — Greeting the Guimao Year of the Rabbit 癸卯兔年
January 20 - The Tail-end of Tiger Tyranny
January 19 - In the Eyes of the Beholder — Dasheng’s Little Lectures
January 18 - Resisting Cultural Capture — Dasheng’s Little Lectures
January 17 - Brainwashing vs. Educating — Dasheng’s Little Lectures
January 16 - On Rumours & Lies — Dasheng’s Little Lectures
January 15 - Xu Zhangrun — Words of Gratitude & Elegies of Anger
January 12 - Liu Chan’s Memorial for the Departed
January 7 - Xi Jinping’s Harvest — an anthem for China’s disaffected Huminerals
January 6 - Xi Jinping’s Harvest — from reaping Garlic Chives to exploiting Huminerals
January 3 - Chinese Time — the struggle of memory against forgetting
January 2 - Chinese Time — More New Ghosts, Same Old Dreams

2022

December 31 - As If: Australia-China at Fifty
December 29 - 華表 huabiao — Red Rising, Red Eclipse
December 27 - New Sinology in 1964 and 2022
December 26 - Tedium Continued — Mao more than ever
December 23 - Where is China’s Intelligentsia during the Covid Emergency? — re-reading Xu Zhiyong’s Letter to Xi Jinping
December 20 - 1978-1979, Year One of the Xi Jinping Crisis with the West
December 15 - Ever More Arrogant & Proud — Xi Jinping’s Rule in the End-time of Covid
December 13 - In My End is My Beginning — Chairman Xi’s New Clothes
December 11 - When Zig Turns Into Zag the Joke is on Everyone
December 11 - A Ray of Light, A Glimmer of Hope — Li Yuan talks to Jeremy Goldkorn & to a Shanghai protester
December 6 - ‘The Earl of Zheng Overcame Duan in Yan’: China’s Past in Our Futures
December 5 - ‘Ironic Points of Light’ — acts of redemption on the blank pages of history
December 2 - It’s My Duty
November 30 - How to Read a Blank Sheet of Paper
November 28 - Fear, Fury & Protest — three years of viral alarm
November 24 - A Premature Postscript — Tedium at Sixty-eight
November 16 - Other People’s Thoughts, XXXII
November 14 - Awakenings — a Voice from Young China on the Duty to Rebel
November 11 - Bao Tong — Spirit & Soul
November 8 - The Creatures that Emerge from the Devastation
November 2 - On Shaking One’s Own Hand
October 27 - ‘The Unseating Incident’ — a letter to Xi Jinping, my fellow Tsinghua alumnus, about our elder, Hu Jintao
October 25 - Xu Zhangrun at Sixty
October 24 - Exit Stage Right — Hu Jintao’s staggering departure from China’s political scene
October 23 - A Hosanna for Chairman Mao & Canticles for Party General Secretary Xi
October 16 - China’s Highly Consequential Political Silly Season (Part III)
October 15 - China’s Highly Consequential Political Silly Season (Part II)
October 10 - From One to Ten and Back Again — 10 October 2022
October 7 - China’s Highly Consequential Political Silly Season (Part I)
October 5 - ‘For’ برای — in Memory of Lee Yee
September 30 - October 1 & October 10 – Two Chinas, Whose Fatherland?
September 28 - China Watching in the Xi Jinping Era of Blindness and Deafness
September 27 - A Language Lesson for New Zealand Chinese Language Week
September 26 - Other People’s Thoughts, XXXI
September 24 - Sinology vs. the Disciplines, Then & Now
September 11 - A Country Besieged by Itself
September 9 - Other People’s Thoughts, XXX
September 3 - Xi the Exterminator & the Perfection of Covid Wisdom
August 27 - Minting China Strategies in the United Kingdom
August 25 - China Watching — old skills honed for a ‘new era’
August 15 - Notre seul parapluie — ‘Life is a shitstorm, in which art is our only umbrella.’
August 12 - The Whimsy and Wisdom of Lao Shu, in a Summer of Discontent
August 2 - In My Words — a poem by Xu Zhangrun
July 21 - The Curse of Great Leaders — the Xi Jinping decade and beyond
July 4 - ‘You can’t rebel, you can’t start a revolution, and you can’t be independent.’ — How Ni Kuang saw the future of Hong Kong
July 1 - Hong Kong — Twenty-five years after the fall
June 4 - The Double Fifth Festival and the 35th of May 2022
May 2 - A Decade of Telling Chinese Stories
April 12 - Who Goes Nazi Now? — Russia, China, America …
March 31 - We Need to Talk About Totalitarianism, Again
March 7 - The Pandemic of Fear & the Angel of Dread
March 4 - Other People’s Thoughts, XXIX
March 1 - A storied Handshake, an excised Interpreter & a muted Anthem
February 27 - Dissing Dissent
February 26 - Eileen Gu — Hu Xijin on Skis
February 25 - The President & The Chairman in Retrospect
February 24 - A Week That Changed The World
February 23 - ‘Welcome to China, Mr. President!’
February 22 - Nixon’s Press Corps
February 19 - The Threnody of Tedium
February 13 - A Valentine for M on the Bund
February 11 - Requiem for an Autocrat — Fang Zhou on Xi Jinping’s End of Days
February 5 - Beijing’s Coldest Spring — The 2022 Winter Olympics, Li Wenliang & Xu Zhangrun
February 3 - A Beijing Winter after the Summer Olympics
February 1 - You Should Look Back
January 30 - Greeting the Renyin Year of the Tiger 壬寅虎年
January 11 - A Winking Owl, a Volant Dragon & the Tiger’s Arse — An Illustrated Proem
January 3 - The True Face of Mount Lu — prologue to ‘Xi Jinping’s Empire of Tedium’
January 1 - Liu Xiaobo on the Inspiration of New York

2021

December 31 - Dai Qing, Stefan Zweig & the Victory of the Defeated
December 23 - Xmas 2021 — Crumpet, the Low-key Elf, and Christmas Freud
December 17 - ‘Streams Descending Turn to Trees that Climb’ — five years of China Heritage
November 23 - A Peculiar Kind of Spark — an iPad and landscapes primed to burn
November 14 - History as Boredom — Another Plenum, Another Resolution, Beijing, 11 November 2021
November 7 - Commemorating Jacques Pimpaneau
October 23 - ‘On China’s “Rise” and the Environment’s Decline’ — Celebrating Dai Qing at Eighty
October 19 - The Right to Know & the Need to Lampoon
October 17 - Remembering Harold Bloom, at a remove
October 12 - Commemorating a Different Centenary — Dai Qing on the 1911 Revolution
October 7 - How Steel is Tempered — Chen Qiushi Returns
October 2 - Celebrating Dai Qing at Eighty
October 1 - Other People’s Thoughts, XXVIII
September 22 - Mid Autumn, Geng Xiaonan & National Treasures
September 21 - Prelude to a Restoration: Xi Jinping, Deng Xiaoping, Chen Yun & the Spectre of Mao Zedong
September 12 - On This Day: 11 September 2021, a commemoration in three chapters
September 8 - Two Plus Two Equals Five—China’s New Math
September 4 - Accounting for 111 Years: The Wang Family of Bose, Guangxi Province
August 14 - Other People’s Thoughts, XXVII
August 11 - In Memoriam — Pierre Ryckmans (Simon Leys)
August 9 - Justified Fears, Diminished Hopes, Unflagging Faith — Revisiting Xu Zhangrun’s July 2018 Jeremiad
July 25 - Other People’s Thoughts, XXVI
July 14 - Red Allure & The Crimson Blindfold
July 5 - Other People’s Thoughts, XXV
July 1 - Beijing, 1st July 2021 — ‘It was a sunny day and the trees were green…’
June 25 - Apple Daily, ‘The Four Noes’ & the End of Chinese Media Independence
June 24 - Lee Yee on the Demise of Jimmy Lai’s Apple Daily
June 18 - Other People’s Thoughts, XXIV
June 15 - A Love Letter to a Lost Hong Kong
June 10 - Xi Jinping’s China & Stalin’s Artificial Dialectic
June 4 - Beijing Days, Beijing Nights, May 1989
June 3 - In Memoriam — 4 June 2021
May 20 - Other People’s Thoughts, XXIII
May 17 - 5.16 — Sorry, Not Sorry
May 7 - The Spectre of Prince Han Fei in Xi Jinping’s China
May 4 - Other People’s Thoughts, XXII
April 27 - On the End of an Error — Day Ten of Jianying Zha & Katō Yoshikazu’s New Decameron
April 23 - ‘I Hereby Cancel Myself’ — Lee Yee
April 22 - ‘Night Watch’ — a poem from Stygian Xinjiang
April 11 - Other People’s Thoughts, XXI
March 18 - Other People’s Thoughts, XX
February 24 - A Word of Advice to the Biden Administration
February 20 - The State of the Sino-American Pas de Deux in 2021
February 12 - Ox Herding & the Xinchou Year of the Ox 辛丑牛年
February 12 - Introducing Xu Zhangrun’s Ten Letters from a Year of Plague
February 1 - Better Angels, Persistent Demons — Part II
January 25 - Other People’s Thoughts, XIX
January 21 - Better Angels, Persistent Demons — Part I
January 18 - The Invisible Republic of the Spirit — Preface to Spectres & Souls
January 2 - Composed of Eros & of Dust — Xu Zhangrun Goes Shopping

2020

December 30 - China’s Virus of Lies in 2020
December 29 - Chen Qiushi’s Gift of the Gab
December 24 - Ho-ho Holiday — Lil Nas X & New Sinology
December 22 - Cyclopes on My Doorstep, by Xu Zhangrun
November 21 - Other People’s Thoughts, XVIII
November 16 - Those Who Would Love
November 11 - ‘Adieu, China!’ — Jianying Zha’s Long Farewell
November 7 - A Trumpty Dumpty Denouement — 6 November 2020
November 4 - Democracy & The Future — 3 November 2020
November 2 - Celebrating the Egg-fried Rice Festival in West Korea
October 26 - Erewhon & Its Enemies
October 23 - Protesting the Wrongful Arrest of Geng Xiaonan in Beijing
October 20 - ‘A Sunflower Glaring at the Sun’ — on Geng Xiaonan being formally arrested
October 11 - Geng Xiaonan & the Siege of Beijing
October 10 - Audrey Tang, Double Ten Day & The Transcultural Republic of Citizens
October 9 - The Siege of Hong Kong — The First Hundred Days of the National Security Law
October 7 - Hong Kong & 講耶穌 gong2 je4 sou1
October 3 - Geng Xiaonan, Ren Zhiqiang & China’s Refuseniks
October 1 - The innocent cry to Heaven. The odour of such a state is felt on high.
September 27 - ‘Geng Mulan’ — reading a poem for a hero
September 24 - Xu Zhangrun: ‘I Am Compelled to Speak Out in Defence of Geng Xiaonan’
September 22 - The Kafkaesque Trials of Geng Xiaonan
September 17 - Ai Xiaoming on Geng Xiaonan’s ‘Dance of Defiance’
September 11 - Geng Xiaonan, a ‘Chinese Decembrist’, and Professor Xu Zhangrun
September 4 - Crowdfunding a Scholar Becalmed
September 1 - The Good Caucasian of Sichuan & Kumbaya China
August 30 - Let the Record Show — an Account of Xu Zhangrun’s Protest and Resilience
August 20 - Professor Xu Zhangrun’s Letter to the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University
August 15 - John Minford Introduces the Hong Kong Literature Series
August 12 - Jimmy Lai, the Twilight of Freedom & the Dawn of ‘Legalistic-Fascist-Stalinism’ 法日斯 in Hong Kong
August 6 - Tsinghua’s War with Tradition — How a Chinese University Decoupled Itself from its Better Angels, Again
July 26 - Xu Zhangrun’s Fears & Hopes, July 2018-July 2020
July 22 - China’s Heart of Darkness (Part IV)
July 20 - China’s Heart of Darkness (Part III)
July 19 - Responding to a Gesture of Support — Xu Zhangrun
July 18 - China’s Heart of Darkness — Prince Han Fei & Chairman Xi Jinping (Part II)
July 17 - China’s Heart of Darkness — Prince Han Fei & Chairman Xi Jinping (Part I)
July 15 - China’s Heart of Darkness — Prince Han Fei & Chairman Xi Jinping (Prologue)
July 14 - Xu Zhangrun & China’s Former People
July 7 - 無可奈何 — So It Goes
July 2 - Thoughts on 1 July 2020
June 16 - Cross-Examination — Seven Questions for Those Who Would Teach Hong Kong’s Teachers
June 5 - In Memoriam — Shrouds of Ice on a River Incarnadine
May 25 - The Mandela Effect — The Unquiet End of Hong Kong Headliner
May 21 - Remonstrating with Beijing — Xu Zhangrun’s Advice to China’s National People’s Congress, 21 May 2020
May 18 - Two Poems for 4 May 2020 from Roger Pulvers Reads
May 15 - Mangling May Fourth 2020 in Washington
May 9 - Mangling May Fourth 2020 in Beijing
May 4 - Wolves Everywhere Under Heaven — China’s Covid-19 Global Diplomacy
May 1 - Hong Kong 攬炒 — Burning Down the House
April 29 - 1900 & 2020 — An Old Anxiety in a New Era
April 25 - The Road Not Taken by Margaret Ng 吳靄儀
April 23 - Holding Fast
April 23 - The End of Hong Kong’s Third Way
April 21 - Beijing’s Battle with Viral Humanity
April 18 - Poems from a Plague — a Tibetan Meditation
April 16 - Insisting and Acting on the Truth
April 15 - Freedom from Fear & an Inconvenient Truth
April 9 - A Shared Perigean Moon
April 5 - Thanatopsis — 4 April 2020
April 2 - ‘The Stone Monkey’ — a diversion during a plague
March 11 - The Heart of The One Grows Ever More Arrogant and Proud
March 6 - Professor Guo Yuhua on the Poison in China’s System
February 25 - Xu Zhangrun, ‘Viral Alarm — When Fury Overcomes Fear’ (Revised Translation)
February 13 - 2019-nCoV — A Teaching Moment, Spring Term 2020

2019

December 31 - Six Chapters — One Hundred and Twenty Years
December 7 - Dust and Spring in Beijing
November 30 - Talking to My Mother About Hong Kong
November 21 - Superfluous Words
October 17 - The Best is Like Water
October 11 - I Will Not Submit, I Will Not Be Cowed
October 8 - The Double Ninth in 2019 — Settling Scores, Fleeing The Qin and Eating Crabs
October 6 - Voiceless, but Not Silent
October 2 - Writing Home on China’s Seventieth Birthday
September 30 - Abiding Until Daybreak
September 26 - The Hundredth Day Declaration
September 26 - China, The Man-Child of Asia
September 24 - Singing for Hong Kong
September 18 - Hong Kong, 1925; 1997; 2019 — Splendeat Sapientiae Lumen ex Oriente
September 14 - A Protracted People’s Struggle
September 12 - An Anthem to Restore Hong Kong
September 10 - A Summer of Blood and Tears — according to six Hong Kong high-school students
September 8 - Leaf Margin — a poem by P.K. Leung
September 6 - For We Are Like Olives
September 4 - Freedom-Hi & #ProtestToo
September 2 - Cockroaches That Would Slay Dragons
August 29 - The Mission of Our Times in Hong Kong
August 27 - Holding Hands in Hong Kong
August 23 - Auntie Carrie, puh-leeze!
August 21 - Hong Kong’s Acclimation
August 20 - I am Brian Leung: they cannot understand; they cannot comprehend; they cannot see
August 18 - How Dare You Hong Kong People Resist!
August 15 - Like Water, Boiling Water
August 14 - The Nobility of Failure
August 13 - Rage Against the Dying of the Light — poems for tenebrous times
August 12 - Hong Kong — 2019, 2003, 1984, 1979
August 7 - Restoring Hong Kong, Revolution of Our Times
August 1 - Back in the Year — Hong Kong 1984
July 29 - Living and Learning in Hong Kong 2019
July 25 - Hong Kong Headliner Makes Headlines
July 22 - This is Who We Are — We Are Hong Kong
July 21 - Hong Kong Goes Grey for a Day
July 16 - Young Hong Kong
July 14 - Hong Kong Headliner — Kill Bill
July 10 - The Case for Humanity Over Bastardry
July 8 - Digesting the Tsinghua Protests (III)
July 6 - Endgame Hong Kong
June 29 - How the Humanities and Social Sciences Are Holding China Back
June 23 - The Uselessness of Freedom
June 14 - Mother China, a Fatherland for Two Millennia
June 10 - China’s 1980s and its Denouement on 4 June 1989
June 7 - Rumour — a Pipe Blown by Surmises, Jealousies, Conjectures
June 4 - A Writer’s Desk & the Vastness of China — 1989, 2019
May 31 - Tiananmen 1989 — Three Decades Behind China’s Gate of Darkness
May 25 - The Transvaluation of ‘The World’ tianxia to ‘The State’ guo, and Back Again
May 22 - A Scholar’s Virtus & the Hubris of the Dragon
May 18 - A Breach of the Law, a Betrayal of Autonomy — No Way for a University to Act!
May 15 - An Eye Not Blind, a Heart Not Stony and Corrupt — Being Able to Live With Oneself
May 13 - Digesting the Tsinghua Protests (II)
May 10 - Rashomon & Growing Pains at Tsinghua University
May 8 - Living Lies in China Today
May 5 - Anniversaries New & Old in 2019 — Remembering 5.4, Accounting for 4.28
May 2 - The Incompatibilities of Xu Zhangrun
April 29 - The Two Scholars Who Haunt Tsinghua University
April 27 - They’re Afraid
April 25 - A Hong Kong Farewell — Chan Kin-man
April 24 - Lessons for the Learned — Twelve Ways to Resist
April 23 - An Open Letter to Tsinghua University, signed and sealed
April 22 - The Professor, a University & the Rule of Law
April 19 - Terracotta Warriors on the Rhine
April 16 - Introducing ‘The Xu Zhangrun Archive'
April 15 - Digesting the Tsinghua Protests
April 13 - An Open Letter to Tsinghua University — Signatories, 5-12 April 2019
April 12 - Sweep Away All Professors! Make China’s Universities Safe Spaces!
April 10 - There’s Just No Shutting You Up! — a Shaanbei Serenade
April 9 - Throw Him Out Now! No, Give Him His Job Back!
April 7 - Poetic Justice — a protest in verse
April 6 - An Open Letter to the President of Tsinghua University
April 4 - My Tsinghua Lament
April 2 - Speaking Up for a Man Who Dared to Speak Out
April 1 - Tsinghua University Gets a Lecture on Leadership from the Central Party School
March 31 - Silence + Conformity = Complicity — reflections on university life in China today
March 29 - Heads or Tails — Criticism and Xu Zhangrun
March 27 - J’accuse, Tsinghua University!
March 13 - Pine Breeze, Wisteria Moon — a new masthead for China Heritage
March 8 - The State of a Civilisation
February 25 - The Great Palace of Ch’in — a Rhapsody
February 19 - Outside the Pigsty Looking In, Two Views
February 14 - Sic transit gloria mundi — Ten Years of A Prosperous Age
February 6 - In the Year of the Pig — Chairman Mao’s Bitch and Xi Jinping’s Swine
February 3 - The Year of the Pig Foretold
February 2 - My Puppy’s Death by Liu Xiaobo
January 31 - Humble Recognition, Boundless Possibility — Part I
January 28 - The Pirouette of Time — After the Future in China
January 26 - Yapping Hairpiece, Meddlesome Rug, Turbulent Toupee
January 22 - Bellicose and Thuggish — China Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
January 17 - China’s Red Empire — To Be or Not To Be?
January 14 - Introducing Translatio Imperii Sinici
January 4 - Yesterday’s Stray Dog 喪家狗, Today’s Guard Dog 看門狗
January 1 - Tomorrow — on New Year’s Eve

2018

December 28 - Other People’s Thoughts, XVII
December 27 - Hong Kong Outsiders
December 24 - Parthenogenesis
December 22 - The Alpha and Omega of Personality Cults
December 18 - The Kremlin Then, Zhongnanhai Now
December 14 - Living with the Tao
December 10 - Supping with a Long Spoon — dinner with Premier Li, November 1988
December 4 - Other People’s Thoughts, XVI
November 28 - To Summon a Wandering Soul
November 20 - Tao Te Ching — a new translation of a Chinese classic
November 11 - And Teachers, Then? They Just Do Their Thing!
November 5 - Travelling in the Opposite Direction — Jin Yong & Me
November 3 - Analysing the Chinese Leadership in an Era of Sex, Money and Power
October 31 - Other People’s Thoughts, XV
October 28 - The Conditions of Empathy — Ai Weiwei Interview Part 5
October 27 - Automatic Writing and the Spilling of Blood — Ai Weiwei Interview Part 4
October 25 - Exile and the Consequences of Hope — Ai Weiwei Interview Part 3
October 23 - The Prison of a Name — Ai Weiwei Interview Part 2
October 21 - In the Consequences of Poetry — Ai Weiwei Interview Part 1
October 19 - An Afternoon in Beijing, September 1978
October 16 - Louis Cha’s The Deer & the Cauldron in English
October 12 - China Watching — Language Wars, from Montreal to Beijing
October 9 - Speaking for the State
October 3 - Homo Xinensis Militant
September 28 - Other People’s Thoughts, XIV
September 25 - Mao Haijian and the Beginning of the End of Dynastic China
September 20 - Three Dreams
September 16 - Homo Xinensis Ascendant
September 8 - The Frog Bride
September 5 - A People’s Banana Republic
August 31 - Homo Xinensis
August 22 - Other People’s Thoughts, XIII
August 17 - The Party Empire
August 12 - The Golden Flower
August 9 - Drop Your Pants! The Party Wants to Patriotise You All Over Again (Part I)
August 2 - Imminent Fears, Immediate Hopes — A Beijing Jeremiad
July 30 - Discursive Heat — Humanism in 1980s China
July 29 - Other People’s Thoughts, XII
July 28 - Red Prison Files
July 26 - On Literature and Collaboration
July 24 - Oracle Bones, That Dangerous Supplement …
July 20 - It’s Time to Talk About ‘Evening Talks at Yanshan’
July 17 - Deathwatch for a Chairman
July 13 - Silent China & Its Enemies
July 11 - Mendacious, Hyperbolic & Fatuous — an ill wind from People’s Daily
July 2 - 之乎者也 — Particular Pedantry
June 28 - Other People’s Thoughts, XI
June 26 - The Borderlands of a Brave New World
June 22 - Resistance and the Ethical China Watcher
June 19 - A Rake’s Progress
June 14 - 事兒狗福狸 — Bad Dog!
June 8 - Something In The Air
June 1 - Nouvelle Chinoiserie & the Obsessions of Master Pu
May 28 - Other People’s Thoughts, X
May 25 - Staying Out of Range
May 21 - The Possible and the Probable
May 18 - Encore — John Minford on Change
May 15 - Nanking’s ‘Government of Traitors’, 1940-1945
May 11 - ‘The Midget Hound’, by Pu Songling
May 8 - Doubtless and Clueless at Peking University
May 7 - Render Unto the Emperor
May 4 - May Fourth at Ninety-nine
April 30 - A One-minute Chinese Lesson
April 29 - Contentious Friendship
April 24 - A Forest of Names — the translation of one grief to another
April 20 - A Profile, a Reverie & a Letter
April 16 - Other People’s Thoughts, IX
April 13 - The Christian Conundrum of Yongzheng
April 10 - My Qingming
April 8 - Superfluous Words from a Nanking Salon
April 1 - A Madman’s End
March 28 - From a Heap of Ashes
March 23 - Occupied with Idleness
March 19 - Two Letters from The Stone
March 16 - Foo Dog-Lions
March 12 - A Landscape Desolate and Bare
March 9 - Other People’s Thoughts, VIII
March 5 - Objecting
March 2 - The Real Man of the Dog Year
February 28 - The Year 1971
February 24 - The Dog Lover
February 18 - A Pride of Pekingese
February 16 - Mondo Cane
February 11 - Watching & Warning
February 8 - Saying the Unsayable
February 6 - An Ultrastable System
February 4 - Peking Tom
February 2 - Conflicting Caricatures
January 31 - The Man With the Key
January 29 - On the Eve
January 27 - For Truly Great Men, Look to This Age Alone
January 25 - I’m So Ronree
January 23 - Peking Duck Soup
January 21 - China 1976: An Ambassador’s Advice
January 19 - Assignment: China
January 17 - White Paper, Red Menace
January 15 - Diplomats, Scholars, Adventurers
January 13 - Morrison of Peking
January 11 - The Tradition of China Watching
January 9 - On New China Newspeak
January 7 - Non-existent Inscriptions, Invisible Ink, Blank Pages
January 5 - The China Expert and The Ten Commandments
January 1 - A Barbieri in China

2017

December 27 - A Very Hong Kong Xmas
December 22 - Hollow Men, Wooden People
December 22 - Christmas Cheer: another letter from David Hawkes
December 20 - Other People’s Thoughts, VII
December 15 - China Bound — meeting and eating
December 13 - Nanking Broken
December 6 - Reaching Forty-five
December 1 - China’s Art of Containment
November 20 - Who’s on First?
November 16 - Other People’s Thoughts, VI
November 7 - The Unbuilt Wall of Sorrow
November 5 - What’s New About Such Thinking?
October 28 - Ninth of the Ninth 重陽 Double Brightness
October 19 - The Ayes Have It
October 8 - The Same Fair Moon
September 30 - 1 October 2017 — The Best China
September 25 - The Battle Behind the Front
September 22 - Other People’s Thoughts, V
September 18 - Envoi for Capital M 別了，前門米氏西餐廳
September 13 - Appendix II: For the Dead are Many 冤屈難伸
September 9 - Demons Demonise Demons 妖魔化妖魔
September 6 - P.K.’s Strange Tales 也斯聊齋
September 6 - Sun Yat-sen’s Shade 革命尚未成功
September 6 - Spooks in the Bamboo Grove 竹林魑魅魍魎
September 5 - Betwixt & Between 陰陽界
September 4 - Spectres in the Seventh Month
September 4 - Appendix I: Ghost Logorrhoea 鬼話連篇
September 4 - A Wisp of Smoke 一溜煙兒
September 4 - Rhapsody for a Skeleton 髑髏賦
September 4 - Hymn to the Fallen 國殤
September 4 - Mao Zedong’s Monsters and Demons 牛鬼蛇神
September 4 - Lu Xun’s Ghosts 無常、女吊
September 4 - Exorcism in the Garden 大觀園符水驅妖孽
September 4 - Weird Accounts 志怪
September 1 - Embroidery, a poem
August 28 - The Seventh Night 七夕
August 26 - The Affinities of Art 藝海因緣
August 22 - Burn the Books, Bury the Scholars!
August 10 - ༄༅། ཞོ་སྟོན། Yoghurt Festival
August 6 - Other People’s Thoughts, IV
August 3 - Remembering Igor — our secret history
July 30 - Of Tartar Princesses, Poetry and Mongol Khans
July 26 - The Great Wall: a wonder and a curse!
July 20 - Cutting a Deal with China
July 13 - The Pity of It
July 12 - The Floating City 浮城
July 8 - Twenty Views of Fragrant Harbour
July 5 - Yau Ma Tei’s Hong Kong Rhapsody
July 1 - Cauldron 鼎
June 30 - Mourning
June 28 - Elephants & Anacondas
June 26 - Less Velvet, More Prison
June 23 - Jao Tsung-I on 通 tōng — 饒宗頤與通人
June 20 - More Light — translation as performance art
June 15 - Even More Other People’s Thoughts
June 11 - Alleys End — Beijing hutong 衚衕
June 4 - The Gate of Darkness
June 1 - Child’s Play — 1st of June
May 30 - The Double Fifth and the Archpoet
May 29 - Memory Holes, old & new
May 27 - A Lineage of Light — Final Lecture, David Hawkes
May 26 - A Lineage of Light — Lecture Four, Arthur Waley
May 25 - A Lineage of Light — Lecture Three, Herbert Allen Giles
May 24 - A Lineage of Light — Lecture Two, James Legge
May 18 - A Lineage of Light — Introductory Lecture Notes
May 11 - A Lineage of Light — Introducing Four Translators
May 8 - More Other People’s Thoughts
May 3 - Bathing Baby Buddha
April 30 - Stories of Regret — the Zhang family of Huayin
April 26 - 幽默: You Having a Laugh? The Birth of Humour in Modern China
April 20 - 顛倒 Downside Up — the art of Lois Conner
April 17 - The Silent Majority and the Great Majority
April 13 - Easter Resurrected: a letter from David Hawkes
April 9 - Wang Xi-feng’s Guide to Success in Modern China
April 7 - In Memoriam: Sylvia Jean Hawkes, 1927-2017
April 4 - In the Shade 庇蔭
March 30 - Spring Lustration 脩禊 — a pavilion, a calligrapher and eternity
March 27 - Xi Xi in the Bamboo Grove
March 24 - China’s State of Warring Styles
March 14 - China Heritage Annual Launched
March 13 - An Educated Man is Not a Pot 君子不器
March 13 - 2014: Where’s the Ancient City of Nanking Going?
March 12 - The Australian Legation in Nanking
March 12 - The Hall of Deep Willows and Its Master
March 12 - The Age of Exuberance
March 12 - 2015: Mayor Bulldozer
March 6 - The Man With the Key
March 5 - 1959: This Land so Rich in Beauty
March 4 - 1954: Awakening from a Dream of Red Mansions
March 3 - April-September 1949: The Nanking Press
March 3 - The Teddy Bear Chronicles of Xi Xi
March 2 - April 1949: Trapped in Nanking
March 1 - April 1949: Nanking Liberated, in verse
February 27 - The Dragon Raises its Head 龍抬頭
February 22 - Leaf Contact 連葉
February 20 - Thoughtless China
February 14 - Introducing Other People’s Thoughts
February 11 - The End of the Beginning 元宵
February 8 - Hu Shih and Chinese language reform
February 5 - Counting up to Nine
February 2 - The Teddy Bear Chronicles
February 2 - Nouvelle Chinoiserie
February 1 - On Idleness 閒
January 28 - The Year of the Rooster 丁酉雞年, 2017 in three registers
January 25 - The Year of the Rooster, On Eating, Injecting, Imbibing & Speaking
January 19 - The Year of the Rooster, On Seeing
January 15 - The Year of the Rooster, On Reading
January 15 - The Tiny Bird-track
January 10 - A New York Eye on the Rapa
January 9 - The I Ching for Beginners
January 6 - Award for Translating Change
January 1 - A Monkey King’s Journey to the East

2016

November 25 - About China Heritage
August 2 - New China Newspeak 新华文体
July 28 - Loyal to Spiritual Civilisation 精神文明中的 ‘忠'
July 22 - 漫畫 Manhua
July 22 - 比興 Metaphor
July 14 - Bibliography
July 14 - Vocabulary
July 14 - Texts
July 14 - Proem
July 14 - Factions, Friends & Cronies
July 14 - Zhengyou
July 14 - Turncoats
July 14 - Fellow Travellers
July 14 - Being Partisan
July 14 - The Cycle of Rehabilitation
July 14 - Overturning Opinions
July 14 - Final Judgements
July 14 - Making a Case
July 13 - Bibliography
July 13 - Vocabulary
July 13 - Texts
July 13 - The Case For and Against
July 13 - Proem
July 13 - Chuci 楚辭, ‘I Alone am Pure and Will Not Submit’ 七諫沈江
July 12 - Acknowledgements
July 12 - How to Read
July 12 - Acknowledgements
July 12 - Zhuangzi 莊子, ‘Boyi: a matter of perspective’
July 12 - Zhuangzi 莊子, ‘Robber Zhi on Confucius’ 盜跖論孔丘
July 12 - Sima Qian 司馬遷, ‘A Biography of Boyi and Shuqi’ 伯夷列傳
July 12 - Mencius 孟軻, ‘On Boyi, Paragon of Withdrawal'
July 12 - Confucius 孔丘, ‘Boyi and Shuqi’, The Analects
July 10 - 新華文體 Newspeak
July 9 - Wang Anshi 王安石, ‘On Bo Yi’ 伯夷論
July 9 - Zhu Yuanzhang 朱元璋, ‘Refuting Han Yu’s Eulogy of Bo Yi’ 駁韓愈頌伯夷文
July 9 - Han Yu 韓愈, ‘Eulogy of Boyi’ 伯夷頌
July 8 - Chapters
July 8 - Fable 故事
July 8 - Introduction 沒有
July 8 - ‘Black Tigers’ (hei laohu 黑老虎)
July 8 - Yuan Hongdao 袁宏道 at Orchid Pavilion 蘭亭
July 8 - Literary Representations
July 8 - Orchid Pavilion
July 8 - The Man with the Key
July 8 - Bibliography
July 8 - Texts
July 8 - Vocabulary
July 8 - Conflicting Loyalties
July 8 - Loyalty
July 7 - 影射 Innuendo
July 6 - Sima Qian, ‘On Bo Yi'
July 5 - Han Yu, ‘Eulogy for Bo Yi'
July 5 - Ai Weiwei’s 艾未未 ‘Dumbass’ 傻伯夷
July 5 - 褒貶 Evaluations
July 1 - On Heritage 遺
June 30 - Designing Heritage
June 28 - What is New Sinology?
June 28 - Archive
June 28 - Reading
June 28 - Clavis
June 28 - Translations
June 28 - Bibliography
June 28 - In Practice
June 28 - 網語 The Internet
June 28 - 用典 Allusions
June 28 - 成語 Set Expressions
June 28 - Yes & No
June 28 - Rights
June 28 - Tea
June 28 - Friendship
June 28 - Debates
June 28 - Translation
June 28 - Chinese
June 28 - Sinology
June 20 - Kangxi and Xiaoling
June 20 - Choice Morsels from Li Yu
June 20 - Tung Chuin on The Garden of Accommodation
June 20 - Sui 隋
June 20 - The Dream in Nanking
June 18 - 1966-1976: The Cultural Revolution in Nanking
June 18 - December 1973: Nie Gannu on Studying Chairman Mao
June 16 - The Tunnel
June 16 - February 1972: Nixon’s Press Corps
June 16 - 1984: 面影
June 15 - 1987: The Gardens of Jiangnan
June 15 - June 1974: A Conversation with Four Historians
June 15 - About China Heritage Annual
June 14 - City of Sadness
June 12 - The Lament of the Lady of Qin
June 7 - The Lyrics of Li Yu
June 7 - Reform
June 7 - Revolution
June 7 - The Republic
June 7 - In History
June 7 - Dreaming of Jiangnan
June 7 - Destroying to Build
June 7 - In Search of Old Nanking
June 7 - The Practice of Truth
June 7 - The Tunnel
June 7 - A Right to Rebel
June 7 - A Punishing Regime
June 7 - The Long Farewell
June 7 - A City Murdered
June 7 - The Nanking Decade
June 7 - A Capital Renewed
June 7 - Tombs and Palaces
June 7 - Yuan 元
June 7 - Song 宋
June 7 - Tang 唐
June 7 - Six Dynasties 魏晉南北朝
June 7 - Warring States 戰國
June 7 - Palaces and Tombs
June 7 - Qing 清
June 7 - Ming 明
June 6 - At War’s End: an academic GI in Nanking
June 5 - Founding a Dynasty
June 4 - The Secondary Capital
June 3 - Gardens of Nothingness
June 3 - A Realm of Mists and Flowers
June 2 - A Celestial City
June 2 - The Politics of Protest
June 1 - Trümmerfeld
June 1 - Earth Crumbles, Heaven Collapses
May 24 - Expel the Barbarians!
May 24 - 1368: Founding a Dynasty in Nanking
May 12 - China’s Twenty Dreams
May 12 - The China Story and the Chinese Net at Capital M
May 12 - Zhua Ji 抓髻: New Photographic Work About China
May 12 - Encountering China
May 12 - Australia-China Agenda 2013
May 12 - Spiritual Pollution Thirty Years On
May 12 - On this Day
May 12 - Tyger! Tyger! A Fearful Symmetry
May 12 - In Memoriam: Anthony Yu 余國藩
May 12 - A Year without Pierre
May 12 - Shared Values: a Sino-Australian Conundrum
May 12 - CIW: Opening a Building
May 12 - Rock Stands and Mud Washes Away
May 12 - 2016: The Golden Monkey 金猴, a Year to Remember
May 12 - Contributors
May 11 - Yuan Mei’s Menu
May 10 - A Record of the Garden of Folly
May 9 - Whither the Nanking Government?
May 9 - Farewell, Leighton Stuart!
May 9 - Exploring the Beauty of the Sui Garden
May 9 - 2012: Remembering the Bibliophile Huang Shang
May 9 - Yao Yuan on Nanjing
May 9 - Lu You Visits Jinling
May 8 - 1638: Zhang Dai in Nanking
May 8 - Yuan Mei’s Garden of Accommodation
May 6 - Light Returns 光復
May 4 - 1925-1928: Enshrining the Father of the Republic
May 3 - The Chungshan Mausoleum
May 3 - Chronology
May 2 - Visiting a Glorious Village
May 1 - Christ in Nanking
April 9 - On New Sinology