I Met God at the Supermarket

Intersecting with Eternity 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

Other People’s Thoughts LXV

This is the sixty-fifth 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

Dignity, Decency and the Lies of the Present

The Other China 當仁不讓 Perhaps the point of learning from the past is not so much to uncover a lost truth as to understand historical patterns that help us see through the lies of the present.… Read

70-20-10 and the Parading of Lies in Beijing on 3 September 2025

Celebrating New Sinology 真偽莫辨   In this chapter of Celebrating New Sinology, published on the eve of the 3 September 2025 Victory Day parade in Beijing, we start with a short essay on the ‘70-20-10 Strategy’ attributed to Mao Zedong in 1937 and the debates surrounding the Second Japanese War.… Read

Underground Elegies — on a China that won’t be silent

The Other China 敢有歌吟動地哀   … although the People’s Republic is anything but voiceless under Xi Jinping, it has paradoxically become silent. Censorship and fear are commonplace, as has so often been the case in the past, and there is cowed conformity.… Read