Other People’s Thoughts This is the sixty-ninth 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

Intersecting with Eternity 巋然不動 A mini-anthology of literary and artistic works, both past and present, that are part of the unbroken stream of human awareness and poetic self-reflection, Intersecting with Eternity is a companion to The Tower of Reading and an extension of The Other China section of China Heritage.… Read

Contra Trump 投木報瓊   Grace & Justice is a work in Old Odes, New Poems 新詩經體詩, a series by Jianli that draws inspiration from The Book of Songs, the fountain head of Chinese literature.… Read

Celebrating New Sinology 眾女嫉余之蛾眉兮
謠諑謂余以善淫 The Ji Clan at Mar-a-Lago, a chapter in our Contra Trump series, featured a poem by Jianli. Drawing on classical literary forms and allusions found in China’s hallowed language of moral approbation, the poet expressed his disdain for the burlesque by America’s late-imperial political class — in this particular instance, the Gatsby-like revelries organised by US President Donald J.… Read

Contra Trump 獨夫無厭
殷鑒不遠   In Hemail Peril, a chapter in Contra Trump devoted to the ‘Epstein Files’ and the putrid core of Donald J. Trump’s presidency, we quoted Tina Brown: Jeffrey Epstein is the slug who will not die.… Read

Xi Jinping’s Empire of Tedium 坦蕩怡天壽 ・ 其貳 This is Part II of My Father Bao Tong, a biographical essay by Bao Pu written to commemorate the life of Bao Tong.… Read