This is the seventy-ninth 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

Seeds of Fire 40th Anniversary 一脈相承 The 4th of June 2026 marks thirty seven years since the Chinese authorities deployed the army to violently suppress the nationwide Protest Movement of 1989 and the date June Fourth 六四 lives on in infamy as the day of the Beijing Massacre.… Read

The Other China 玄之又玄 Liu Chan 劉蟾, who also goes by the pen name Dasheng 大生, is a writer, scholar and calligrapher. Born in Shaanxi, he lives in Beijing where he edits The Chinese Study 中國書房.… Read

Contra Trump 酷兒川皇 ‘Tell it to us straight.’ — President Judy Gagwell (RuPaul) in Stop! That! Train! In another life … the 79-year-old could be a classic aging gay, living in Wilton Manors, sitting at a bar, making bitchy comments to everyone who comes in.… Read

Intersecting with Eternity As David Lattimore, the translator of the following version of the ‘Spring, River, Flowers, Moon, Night’ 春江花月夜 notes, little is known about the poem’s author Zhang Ruoxu (張若虛, c.660-c.720).… Read

This is the seventy-eighth 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