Other People’s Thoughts This is the seventieth 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

Seeds of Fire 2026 其小無內兮，其大無垠   We’ll tell you anything you want to hear. We lie like hell! We’ll tell you Kojak always gets the killer, and nobody ever gets cancer in Archie Bunker’s house… We’ll tell you any shit you want to hear!… Read

Celebrating New Sinology 人能弘道，非道弘人 Yesterday saw the first snow of the season and today the sun was out. Evening closed in quickly and the jackdaws crowing in the bare tree outside only added to my bleak isolation.… Read

Contra Trump 北風那個吹  雪花那個飄 On 1 January 2024, China Heritage published Nutbush City Limits — 2024, Mao, Trump and China Heritage to mark what promised to be a momentous year in US and global politics.… Read

Xi Jinping’s Empire of Tedium 坦蕩怡天壽 ・ 其叁 This is Part III of My Father Bao Tong, a biographical essay by Bao Pu written to commemorate the life of his father, Bao Tong.… Read

Contra Trump 親者痛，仇者快 Chinese reading the document will say, our time has come. Russians reading the document will say: we can still rebuild our old empire. Europeans reading the document will ask themselves what strange act of projection is behind those words about ‘civilizational erasure.’… Read