Celebrating New Sinology The 17th February 2025 marks the centenary of The New Yorker. Over the years, I have made modest China-related contributions to that magazine’s reporting on China and the writers I have engaged with include Evan Osnos, Ian Buruma, Jiayang Fan and Chang Che.… Read

Intersecting with Eternity In December 2024, the Berlin International Film Festival announced that it would award Scottish actor Tilda Swinton an Honorary Golden Bear for her lifetime achievement. Tricia Tuttle, director of the festival, said that: The range of Tilda Swinton’s work is breathtaking.… Read

Contra Trump 咎由自取   A renowned journalist, writer, commentator and broadcaster, Chris Hedges has featured in China Heritage over the years, as well as in our Contra Trump — America’s Empire of Tedium series.… Read

Contra Trump 遷臣逐客 If Americans want to change their government, they’re going to have to get over their dictator phobia. — Curtis Yarvin America is not a software company. And letting a thin-skinned, Ketamine-fueled, video-game cheating, Nazi apologist billionaire take over the machinery of the United States is not something that anyone voted for.… Read

The Other China 燈節 The Fifteenth Day of the First Month of the New Year 正月十五 marks the first full moon of the Lunisolar New Year. Generally called Yuanxiao 元宵, literally ‘First Evening’, it is also the height of the Lantern Festival 燈節 which was traditionally celebrated from the Hanging of Lanterns 上燈 on the Thirteenth Day to the Taking Down of Lanterns 落燈 on the Eighteenth Day of the First Month.… Read

Contra Trump 底兒朝天 This is another pandemic. Or a Chernobyl. It’s a bomb at the heart of the international order whose toxic fallout is going to inevitably drift our way. — Carole Cadwalladr Writing in The New York Times, the political commentator Noah Millman essayed the view that Donald Trump’s second presidency is nothing less than the fourth major challenge to America’s constitutional order since the War of Independence itself — the other three occurred during the Constitutional Convention of 1787, around the Civil War in the mid nineteenth century and in the aftermath of the Great Depression in the 1930s.… Read