My Belief & die Scheinwelt

Seeds of Fire 太虛幻境 Laozi should not, of course, replace the New Testament for us, but knowing that something similar grew up under other skies and in even earlier times should strengthen our belief that mankind, however seriously it is divided into alien and hostile races and cultures, nevertheless is a unity and has common potentialities, ideals, and goals.… Read

To the West there’s a Great Eastern Power

Seeds of Fire 大肚能容容天下難容之事；
開口便笑笑世間可笑之人。   We mark the festive season of 2025 with a monologue by Huang Yi Hao 黃逸豪, a Taiwanese comic whose performances combine elements of traditional Chinese cross talk 相聲 with western-style stand-up and Japanese manzai 漫才.… Read

Other People’s Thoughts LXX

Other People’s Thoughts This is the seventieth 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