Xi Jinping’s Empire of Tedium 坦蕩怡天壽 ・ 其叁 This is Part III of My Father Bao Tong, a biographical essay by Bao Pu written to commemorate the life of his father, Bao Tong.… Read

Contra Trump 親者痛，仇者快 Chinese reading the document will say, our time has come. Russians reading the document will say: we can still rebuild our old empire. Europeans reading the document will ask themselves what strange act of projection is behind those words about ‘civilizational erasure.’… Read

Other People’s Thoughts This is the sixty-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

Intersecting with Eternity 巋然不動 A mini-anthology of literary and artistic works, both past and present, that are part of the unbroken stream of human awareness and poetic self-reflection, Intersecting with Eternity is a companion to The Tower of Reading and an extension of The Other China section of China Heritage.… Read

Contra Trump 投木報瓊   Grace & Justice is a work in Old Odes, New Poems 新詩經體詩, a series by Jianli that draws inspiration from The Book of Songs, the fountain head of Chinese literature.… Read

Celebrating New Sinology 眾女嫉余之蛾眉兮
謠諑謂余以善淫 The Ji Clan at Mar-a-Lago, a chapter in our Contra Trump series, featured a poem by Jianli. Drawing on classical literary forms and allusions found in China’s hallowed language of moral approbation, the poet expressed his disdain for the burlesque by America’s late-imperial political class — in this particular instance, the Gatsby-like revelries organised by US President Donald J.… Read