Contra Trump The Circus-Circus is what the whole hep world would be doing Saturday night if the Nazis had won the war. — Hunter S. Thompson In this chapter in Contra Trump we continue our discussion of the Network State, a subject about which Gil Durán has written frequently, and with passion.… Read

Contra Trump 不平則鳴   On Heritage 遺 is an explanation of the rationale behind China Heritage. It features ‘Letter to Shan Tao’ 與山巨源絕交書 by Ji Kang 嵇康, one of the celebrated Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove 竹林七賢, in which Ji famously broke off a friendship for political reasons.… Read

This is the fifty-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

Xu Zhangrun Archive 歌哭而行   Friedrich-Alexander Universität
Erlangen-Nürnberg honours a
Chinese legal scholar Xu Zhangrun, formerly a professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing, is this year’s recipient of the Human Rights Award from Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU).… Read

The Other China 花間 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

Contra Trump 百日祭   The ‘First 100 Days’ is a clichéd media expression that suggests that the first three months of an elected leader and his administration reflects not only the tenor but predicts the long-term success of a political era.… Read