Other People’s Thoughts This is the seventy-second chapter in Other People’s Thoughts, a China Heritage series inspired by a compilation of quotations put together by Simon Leys (Pierre Ryckmans), one of our Ancestors, during his reading life.… Read

Contra Trump “天選之子” This year — 2026 — marks the sixtieth anniversary of Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution. As we noted when launching China Heritage a decade ago: In 1966, Mao observed that his personality was a mixture of contradictory elements.… Read

Seeds of Fire 吳祖光 This is an appendix to Bring on the Wine! — Xi Jinping’s Lessons for a Tang-dynasty Poet, the introductory chapter to Seeds of Fire: China Heritage Annual 2026.… Read

Seeds of Fire 浮生若夢，為歡幾何   This is an appendix to Bring on the Wine! — Xi Jinping’s Lessons for a Tang-dynasty Poet, the introductory chapter to Seeds of Fire: China Heritage Annual 2026.… Read

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