The Other China 週而復始   Lao Shu 老樹 is the nom de plume of Liu Shuyong (劉樹勇, 1962-), a Beijing-based artist, writer, critic and professor in communications. His artistic voice is unique and personal, its tenor, whimsy and profundity evoke what for decades we have called The Other China — a cultural noosphere that is as undeniably local as it is universal.… Read

The Other China 坑蒙拐騙 Liu Chan 劉蟾, who also goes by the literary sobriquet Dasheng 大生, is a writer, scholar and calligrapher. Born in Shaanxi, he lives in Beijing where he edits The Chinese Study 中國書房.… Read

Contra Trump 赤心報國，何罪之有   IFLA (I Fucking Love Australia) writes about America and its Pacific cousin on Substack. In his inimitable Australian style of prose, IFLA chronicles the saga of a benighted nation, doing so from the Blue Mountains in New South Wales, my ancestral homeland.… Read

Seeds of Fire 40th Anniversary   In Perilous Peaks — July Seventh 2026, China Heritage celebrated forty years since my nuptials. At the time, China’s traditional festivals and the agrarian calendar were still very much in the shadow of the Western calendar.… Read

Seeds of Fire Fortieth Anniversary 别有天地 In 2026, China Heritage celebrates four decades since John Minford and I published Seeds of Fire: Chinese Voices of Conscience. It is also a year of multiple other commemorations and, in marking some of them in China Heritage Annual 2026, we ‘brace for impact’, to use Nils Gilman’s term.… Read

This is the eighty-fourth 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