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

Contra Trump 行無愧怍心常坦
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

Contra Trump 快速非計劃拆卸 Over the years, China Heritage has noted some of the discomforting parallels between the histories of modern China and America. We have pursued our parallax bilateralism in the spirit of what I think of as ‘Larrikin Sinology’ — the wary study of a serious subject undertaken in an irreverent mood.… Read

Contra Trump 佯裝川賊 Truth becomes fiction when the fiction’s true;
Real becomes not-real when the unreal’s real. 無為有處有還無
假作真時真亦假 — The Story of the Stone 石頭記, trans. David Hawkes) Trump imitators have flourished in the United States since the late 1990s and from Trump Year Zero (aka 2016), Saturday Night Live has featured a bevy of them: Shane Gillis, Phil Hartman, Darrell Hammond, Jason Sudeikis, Taran Killam, Alec Baldwin and James Austin Johnson.… Read

The Other China 最羨雲彩自由   We marked Good Friday 2025 with a somber meditation — A static hiss in the algorithm’s perfect hum. In accord with the very different mood of Easter Monday, we join Lao Shu to celebrate the spring (autumn where we are in the southern hemisphere).… Read