Contra Trump 君子豹變，小人革面 Jeffrey Epstein is the slug who will not die. His trail of slime sticks to everyone who ever crossed his path. — Tina Brown, Fresh Hell, 18 November 2025 In this chapter of Contra Trump, we offer a comment on the ‘Epstein Files’, the putrid core of Donald J.… Read

Xi Jinping’s Empire of Tedium 坦蕩怡天壽 Bao Tong (鮑彤, 1932-2022), former Director of the Office of Political Reform of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (hereafter, CCP) and the highest-ranked party member of the CCP to be imprisoned after the June Fourth Massacre of 1989, died on 9 November 2022, at the age of ninety.… Read

Other People’s Thoughts This is the sixty-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

The Other China 立冬 火鍋或曠野 In this chapter of The Other China, we join the artist Lao Shu to mark 11 November, a relatively new Chinese festive day, and bid farewell to the northern autumn while welcoming the winter season.… Read

Xu Zhangrun Archive 千里冰封，萬里雪飄   On 4 November 2025, Jingzhou Tao 陶景洲 told his online followers that he had met up with his old friend, Xu Zhangrun, one of China’s most famous ‘internal exiles’, a man sequestered both by the state and his former colleagues and friends for having spoken out against Xi Jinping’s autocracy.… Read

Celebrating New Sinology & Contra Trump 碩鼠 In The Shame of Mar-a-Lago, reproduced here with the permission of China Thought Express, the cultural critic Ren Jingjing 任晶晶 offers a commentary on Mar-a-Lago《海湖》a poem by Jianli 漸離 (Chen Li 陳力, aka 陳漸離) that was composed in the wake of the Gatsby-like party held by US President Donald J.… Read