Contra Trump 後人哀之
而不鑒之 ‘There is no reason why Israel cannot also become Pharoah.’ — Yeshayahu Leibowitz Tisha b’Av (the Ninth of Av), which in 2025 falls on 2-3 August, is regarded as the saddest day in the Jewish calendar.… Read

Intersecting with Eternity 宇宙之大，蒼蠅之微，皆可取材   Intersecting with Eternity is a mini-anthology of literary and artistic works, both past and present, that form part of an unbroken stream of human awareness and poetic self-reflection.… Read

This is the sixty-second 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

Xi Jinping’s Empire of Tedium 自絕於人民 Trains: A Chinese Family History of Railway Journeys, Exile, and Survival is an autobiographical work by Jianying Zha 查建英, a New York-based writer whose work has previously featured in China Heritage.… Read

Watching China Watching 剖幽析微 In Broken Engagement — US-China Experts in Recovery (China Heritage, 12 July 2025), I observed that the timing of the publication of Breaking the Engagement: How China Won & Lost America by David Shambaugh, academic and sometime government adviser, is delicious.… Read

Celebrating New Sinology 殷鑒不遠
在夏後之世   In Broken Engagement — US-China Experts in Recovery, the previous chapter in our series Celebrating New Sinology, we commented on veteran China watcher David Shambaugh’s speculation in March 2015 that: We cannot predict when Chinese communism will collapse, but it is hard not to conclude that we are witnessing its final phase.… Read