Contra Trump 元年次日 At a gathering at Davos on 20 January 2026, journalists were briefed by the Trump White House with a document titled ‘365 wins in 365 days. President Trump’s Return Marks New Era of Success’.… Read

Contra Trump 萬 The Chinese rubric of this chapter Contra Trump, a series devoted to America’s denouement under President Donald J. Trump and its doppelgänger in China, is 萬 wàn, a character that can also be written with the symbol 卍 / 卐.… Read

Contra Trump 貪天之功，以為己力 The Norwegian novelist Knut Hamsun was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1920. Later, when he became a staunch supporter of the German Nazis and a collaborator with the traitorous Vidkun Quisling in Norway, Hamsun sent his Nobel Prize medal to Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi minister of ‘public enlightenment’, as a gift.… Read

Seeds of Fire 人生得意須盡歡
莫使金樽空對月   This introductory chapter to Seeds of Fire: China Heritage Annual 2026 is inspired by Wu Zuguang, whom I first met in 1976 — by his outspokenness in 1956, by learning about his exile, resistance and continued travails from 1966 and from his dark warnings about ongoing cultural repression in 1986.… Read

Contra Trump ∀a≠0 In Gödel’s Loophole and American’s ‘Cultural Revolution’, a chapter in Contra Trump — America’s Empire of Tedium, Zhang Qianfan 张千帆, a leading Chinese constitutional expert, observed of the law-bending first month of Donald J.… Read

Celebrating New Sinology 酱爆瘋批茶道   The Tea Master of Zibo is a second-hand car salesman who produces short videos under the name ‘Exploding Sweet-sauce’ 二手醬爆. His Tao of Tea 醬爆茶道 is rebellious, rambunctious and ridiculous.… Read