Other People’s Thoughts is a section in the Journal of the China Heritage site. It is 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 Chapter IV, Part II 義憤 My starting point is always a feeling of partisanship, a sense of injustice. — George Orwell It is because they had read him that the left thought they should hate Orwell; whereas by not reading Orwell, the right could convince themselves they loved him.… Read

Xi Jinping’s Empire of Tedium 藥比三家不吃虧   ‘… it’s not really about athletes competing. What it’s really about is comparing drugs. If the drugs you’re using aren’t any good, you don’t have a hope.’… Read

Xi Jinping’s Empire of Tedium Chapter IV, Part I 1984年   We may well claim that the hair-raising world depicted in this novel has, fortunately, not yet been fully realised in our own, but there is no guarantee that it won’t be in the future.… Read

Xi Jinping’s Empire of Tedium 鮮花著錦、烈火烹油   Today, whether you characterize the Xi Jinping era as an age of stagnation, a state of malaise, or an empire of tedium, Official China boasts of an extended Prosperous Age 盛世shèng shì.… Read

Xi Jinping’s Empire of Tedium Chapter XXXIV, Part VI 狼跋其胡，載疐其尾   Chapter Thirty-four of Xi Jinping’s Empire of Tedium, the penultimate chapter in the collection, consists of a series of essays related to China’s intellectual life and its stillborn public sphere.… Read