Seeds of Fire 浩氣長流 In 2015, Wang Kang (王康, 1949-2020), writer, artist, dissident and unofficial historian, welcomed the new year with a poem. As part of Seeds of Fire: China Heritage Annual 2026 we commemorate his memory and, on the last day of 2025, reproduce the text of that poem along with a recording of it by Bei Ming 北明, a friend of and collaborator with China Heritage (see Geng Xiaonan, a ‘Chinese Decembrist’, and Professor Xu Zhangrun).… Read

Other People’s Thoughts This is the seventy-first 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

Celebrating New Sinology 其出彌遠，其知彌少 Celebrating New Sinology is a series published under the title of China Heritage Annual 2025. It marks the twentieth anniversary of our advocacy of New Sinology 後漢學 and the publication of China Heritage Quarterly, the precursor to China Heritage.… Read

Intersecting with Eternity 吾碑立千秋，銅朽它不朽
勝過法老金字塔的輝煌。
雖蝕骨驟雨, 雖寒風凜冽,
甚滔滔年歲將懦弱無能。 I’ve raised a monument time cannot erode,
towering above the pyramids of kings
that no devouring rain nor fierce north wind
has power to destroy; nor the unbound
years’ swift march and fleeting time’s quick flight.… Read

Seeds of Fire 太虛幻境 Laozi should not, of course, replace the New Testament for us, but knowing that something similar grew up under other skies and in even earlier times should strengthen our belief that mankind, however seriously it is divided into alien and hostile races and cultures, nevertheless is a unity and has common potentialities, ideals, and goals.… Read

Seeds of Fire 大肚能容容天下難容之事；
開口便笑笑世間可笑之人。   We mark the festive season of 2025 with a monologue by Huang Yi Hao 黃逸豪, a Taiwanese comic whose performances combine elements of traditional Chinese cross talk 相聲 with western-style stand-up and Japanese manzai 漫才.… Read