The Other China 北方小年 The Little Year 小年 , also known as The Little New Year, is the Festival of the Kitchen God — variously 竈爺節、祭灶節、送灶節、交年節 in Chinese — is a festival in the lunisolar calendar traditional celebrated a week before the Spring Festival New Year.… Read

Contra Trump Our media and government(s), like most in the Western World, have spent the days since Israel began its Holocaust in Gaza living in a highly fragile parallel universe stitched together by cope, delusion, bloodlust, and greed.… Read

Seeds of Fire 殉道受難 Shortly before Christmas 2023, Jimmy Lai (Lai Chee-ying 黎智英, 1947-), a former pro-democracy media tycoon went on trial in Hong Kong under a Beijing-imposed national security law.… Read

Seeds of Fire 《一九八四 》+《美麗新世界》   We were keeping our eye on 1984. When the year came and the prophecy didn’t, thoughtful Americans sang softly in praise of themselves. The roots of liberal democracy had held.… Read

The Other China 快發錢！要過年！！！ On 25 January 2025 China Heritage celebrated the First Day of the First Month of the Year of the Snake in the company of Lao Shu 老樹 (see: Lofty Aspirations & Modest Wishes for the Year of the Snake).… Read

The Other China 夫唯不爭，故天下莫能與之爭。 ‘It is because he is free from striving that no one in the world can strive against him’ — this line from Tao Te Ching encapsulates the spirit of the following selection of works by Lao Shu 老樹, the nom de plume of Liu Shuyong (劉樹勇, 1962-).… Read