Celebrating New Sinology 緣 ‘Erewhon’ is a garbled version of the word ‘Nowhere’, as well as being the title of a novel by Samuel Butler published in 1872. A satire of Victorian social mores, the book was about ‘nowhere in particular’; Butler’s fictional ruminations are thought to have been inspired in part by his time in New Zealand.… Read

Contra Trump 數字桀紂 The Endgame of Edgelord Eschatology Advocates of The Mindset claim that the world as we know it will soon expire. In its ashes, a new era dominated by digital lifeforms — that is, artificial intelligences — will emerge.… Read

Celebrating New Sinology 時荏苒而不留   Lao Shu 老樹 is the nom de plume of Liu Shuyong (劉樹勇, 1962-), a Beijing-based artist, writer, critic and professor in communications. His artistic voice is unique and personal, its tenor, whimsy and profundity evoke what for decades we have called The Other China — a cultural noosphere that is as undeniably local as it is universal.… Read

This is the fifty-seventh 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

Contra Trump 獨立自由 Tsinghua University in Beijing formally celebrates its founding on the 28th April each year. The Tsinghua of 2025 is a far cry from the Tsinghua of the pre-Xi Jinping years, let alone the Tsinghua that flourished before 1949.… Read

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身處艱難氣若虹 China Heritage marks the centenary of the publication of T.S. Eliot’s poem ‘The Hollow Men’ by reprinting Hollow Men, Wooden People, a chapter the series Hong Kong Apostasy.… Read