Seeds of Fire 吳祖光 This is an appendix to Bring on the Wine! — Xi Jinping’s Lessons for a Tang-dynasty Poet, the introductory chapter to Seeds of Fire: China Heritage Annual 2026.… Read

Seeds of Fire 浮生若夢，為歡幾何   This is an appendix to Bring on the Wine! — Xi Jinping’s Lessons for a Tang-dynasty Poet, the introductory chapter to Seeds of Fire: China Heritage Annual 2026.… Read

Contra Trump 元年次日 At a gathering at Davos on 20 January 2026, journalists were briefed by the Trump White House with a document titled ‘365 wins in 365 days. President Trump’s Return Marks New Era of Success’.… Read

Contra Trump 萬 The Chinese rubric of this chapter Contra Trump, a series devoted to America’s denouement under President Donald J. Trump and its doppelgänger in China, is 萬 wàn, a character that can also be written with the symbol 卍 / 卐.… Read

Contra Trump 貪天之功，以為己力 The Norwegian novelist Knut Hamsun was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1920. Later, when he became a staunch supporter of the German Nazis and a collaborator with the traitorous Vidkun Quisling in Norway, Hamsun sent his Nobel Prize medal to Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi minister of ‘public enlightenment’, as a gift.… Read

Seeds of Fire 人生得意須盡歡
莫使金樽空對月   This introductory chapter to Seeds of Fire: China Heritage Annual 2026 is inspired by Wu Zuguang, whom I first met in 1976 — by his outspokenness in 1956, by learning about his exile, resistance and continued travails from 1966 and from his dark warnings about ongoing cultural repression in 1986.… Read