Watching China Watching
不出戶，知天下
不窺牖，見天道
China Heritage launched the series Watching China Watching in January 2018. In it we offer essays and reflections on studying the Chinese world and approaches to understanding the Chinese People’s Republic.… Read
Other People’s Thoughts LXXXVIII
This is the eighty eighth 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
Persimmons and Lao Shu’s Existential Autumn
The Other China
向前看
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
Tsar Vlad Fiddles while Hair Hitler Gags — Dasheng’s Calligraphic Comments on Current Affairs (XIII)
The Other China
Liu Chan 劉蟾, who also goes by the literary sobriquet Dasheng 大生, is a writer, scholar and calligrapher. Born in Shaanxi, he lives in Beijing where he edits The Chinese Study 中國書房.… Read
The Evil All Evil Aspires to Be — two essays on Satanic Washington
Contra Trump
道高一尺，魔高一丈
This chapter in Contra Trump, our series about the second presidency of Donald J Trump and its relationship with Xi Jinping’s Empire of Tedium, we feature two essays on evil.… Read
Lao Shu’s Appetite for Autumn
聚朋友
The Fifteenth Day of the Eighth Month of the lunar calendar, a day that in 2026 — the Bingwu Year of the Horse 丙午馬年 — falls on the 25th of September, marks the Mid Autumn Festival 中秋節.… Read