Xi Jinping’s Empire of Tedium   Our humble bellies have ingested a surfeit of treachery,
eaten their fill of history, wolfed down legends —
and still the banquet goes on, leaving
an unfilled void in an ever-changing structure.… Read

The Other China   Lao Shu 老樹 is the nom de plume of Liu Shuyong (劉樹勇, 1962-), a Beijing-based artist, writer, critic and professor in communications. His artistic voice is unique and personal, its tenor, whimsy and profundity evoke what for decades we have called The Other China — a cultural noosphere that is as undeniably local as it is universal.… Read

Other People’s Thoughts is a section in the Journal of the China Heritage site. It is inspired by a compilation of quotations put together by Simon Leys (Pierre Ryckmans), one of our Ancestors, during his reading life.… Read

Xi Jinping’s Empire of Tedium Chapter IV, Part II 義憤 My starting point is always a feeling of partisanship, a sense of injustice. — George Orwell It is because they had read him that the left thought they should hate Orwell; whereas by not reading Orwell, the right could convince themselves they loved him.… Read

Xi Jinping’s Empire of Tedium 藥比三家不吃虧   ‘… it’s not really about athletes competing. What it’s really about is comparing drugs. If the drugs you’re using aren’t any good, you don’t have a hope.’… Read

Xi Jinping’s Empire of Tedium Chapter IV, Part I 1984年   We may well claim that the hair-raising world depicted in this novel has, fortunately, not yet been fully realised in our own, but there is no guarantee that it won’t be in the future.… Read