Contra Trump 禍起蕭牆 During the autumn of 2025, in coordination with the 80th UN General Assembly, a work of installation art conceived by Ai Weiwei and realised by Camber Studio, was erected at New York City’s Four Freedoms State Park.… Read

Contra Trump 大撒幣 As an estimated seven million Americans took part in the No Kings protests on Saturday 18 October 2025, the country’s president, Donald J. Trump uploaded a protest of his own.… Read

Contra Trump 打著紅旗反紅旗 On every side the chorus now went up that the old liberal civilization was at an end because man was vile. “There is a Hitler in each of us.”… Read

Other People’s Thoughts This is the sixty-seventh 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

The Other China 再訪陶淵明 In this celebration of the northern autumn of 2025, the Beijing artist Lao Shu plucks virtual chrysanthemums at the imagined home of Tao Yuanming, China’s most famous poet-recluse.… Read

The Other America 明河可望不可親
願得乘槎一問津   The Other China has been a feature of my work since the frustrated Restoration, or Counter-Reform years, of the Chinese party-state in 1989-1992. More recently, I have noted that during the Xi Jinping era Official China has strained to impose uniformity on the Chinese world, be it in the People’s Republic or internationally.… Read