Xu Zhangrun Archive 哦莫怪！我是路人 The last meal on the last night of the traditional calendar — 年夜飯 niányèfàn — is one of the most important occasions in the Chinese year. Families and friends gather to bid farewell to the old year and welcome in the new with food, drink and merriment.… Read

Other People’s Thoughts This is the seventy-third 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

蛇尾馬頭   The 2014 Year of the Horse was my birth year — I turned sixty on 4 May 2014 — a fateful time and one that Indian astrologers had warned me would be a time of extreme danger.… Read

Seeds of Fire 赤馬紅羊劫   *** This is the first of a series of new years cards designed for China Heritage by Callum Smith. It features a photograph by Lois Conner of a bronze horse from the tomb of Qin Shihuang on a yellow background.… Read

The Other China 北方小年 The Little Year 小年 , also known as The Little New Year, is the Festival of the Kitchen God — variously 竈爺節、祭灶節、送灶節、交年節 in Chinese — is a festival in the lunisolar calendar traditional celebrated a week before the Spring Festival New Year.… Read

Contra Trump Our media and government(s), like most in the Western World, have spent the days since Israel began its Holocaust in Gaza living in a highly fragile parallel universe stitched together by cope, delusion, bloodlust, and greed.… Read