Spectres & Souls 咎由自取   Things are going to slide, slide in all directions
Won’t be nothing (won’t be)
Nothing you can measure anymore
The blizzard, the blizzard of the world
Has crossed the threshold
And it’s overturned
The order of the soul The  lines are from The Future, a song released by Leonard Cohen in 1992.… Read

Intersecting with Eternity 出淤泥而不染   This chapter in Intersecting with Eternity is the result of a serendipitous connection between the artist Lisa Simone and the writer Linda Jaivin, one sparked by a cartoon published by Fiona Katauskas following the US presidential election on 5 November 2024.… Read

Spectres and Souls   there are no barbarians anymore
those people were a kind of solution
unless we
ourselves
unless we ourselves
are The
Barbarians
unless we
ourselves
are The
Barbarians … Laurie Anderson added these words to her incantation-like reading of C.P.… Read

Intersecting with Eternity 歷史的垃圾時間   This chapter in Intersection with Eternity is paired with MAGADU — Kubla Khan, Xanadu & the 2024 American presidential election, part of our series Spectres & Souls, our account of the Danse Macabre between the United States of America and the People’s Republic of China (for more on this on-going gyration, see the Epilogue to China’s Highly Consequential Political Silly Season).… Read

Spectres & Souls On 1 January 2024, China Heritage published Nutbush City Limits — 2024, Mao, Trump and China Heritage to mark this momentous year in US and global politics. It featured a reprint of A Monkey King’s Journey to the East, the meditation on Donald J.… Read

Other People’s Thoughts This is the fiftieth 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