The Other China 杳如黃鶴   It’s over twenty years since Lois Conner and I first met at her Gramercy Park apartment in Manhattan. It was the height of the northern summer of 1996 and I was coming to the end of three months as a visiting professor at New York University.… Read

The Other China 人妖之間   In the following interview, Robert Daly, veteran diplomat, specialist in US-China relations, linguistic talent and a man of faith, observes that: The faith question is hard to answer, but it may be what inclines me to view China in a humanistic context.… Read

Xi Jinping’s Empire of Tedium Chapter XXXII, Part 1 畫地為牢   The gestation of Xi Jinping’s Empire of Tedium, a series in China Heritage devoted to the dolorous rule of the man whom I dubbed the ‘Chairman of Everything’ in 2013, started with the release in November 2021 of ‘Resolution on the Major Achievements and Historical Experience of the Party over the Past Century’, the third ‘history resolution’ published by the Chinese Communist Party since it was founded in 1921.… Read

The Tower of Reading 石如飛白木如籀   The 10th of October Festival 雙十節, also known as Double Tenth or Double Ten Day, commemorates the start of the Wuchang Uprising of 10 October 1911 which led to the fall of the Qing dynasty and the founding of the Republic of China in 1912.… Read

The Other China Liu Chan 劉蟾 is a Beijing-based writer and editor who uses couplets composed on a lapidary style to record the events of the day in a solemn calligraphic hand.… Read

Xi Jinping’s Empire of Tedium Appendix LII 該怎麼辦   Featuring the band Wayina and Ren Suxi (任素汐, 1988-), a well-known actress, ‘Outsize Dreams’ 大夢 was a hit. Although it did not enjoy the eye-watering success of ‘Land of the Rakshasas & the Sea Market’ 羅剎海市, featured in There Are Few Folk Songs 山歌寥哉, an album released by the popular singer Dao Lang 刀郎 (羅林, 1971-) in the summer of 2023 (see The Topsy-turvy Country — China’s Summer Hit, 28 July 2023), it was soon downloaded and shared over 45,000 times.… Read