Cyclopes on My Doorstep, by Xu Zhangrun
Viral Alarm
The following essay by Xu Zhangrun, translated by Geremie R. Barmé, first appeared in SupChina on 17 December 2020. It is reprinted here with the kind permission of Jeremy Goldkorn.… Read
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Xu Zhangrun: ‘I Am Compelled to Speak Out in Defence of Geng Xiaonan’
Viral Alarm
Professor Xu Zhangrun was detained by police at his apartment in the western suburbs of Beijing on the 6th of July 2020. Accused of having solicited a prostitute during a trip to Sichuan in November 2019, Xu was questioned for six days before being released without charge.… Read
Geng Xiaonan, a ‘Chinese Decembrist’, and Professor Xu Zhangrun
Viral Alarm
The 9th of September 2020 marked the forty-fourth year since the death of Mao Zedong. On the 10th of September, Professor Xu Zhangrun, formerly of Tsinghua University, issued the following statement:
Geng Xiaonan 耿瀟男 had been in the international news since early July when, following the detention of Xu Zhangrun by police in Beijing, she had spoken out in his defense.… Read
Let the Record Show — an Account of Xu Zhangrun’s Protest and Resilience
Viral Alarm
As we have observed in Viral Alarm — China Heritage Annual 2020, commentators have detected a disturbing echo
‘…between the xenophobic extremism of late-dynastic Qing politics and recent developments occasioned by the 2019-2020 coronavirus epidemic.… Read
Professor Xu Zhangrun’s Letter to the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University
Viral Alarm & the Xu Zhangrun Archive
Professor Xu Zhangrun 許章潤 wrote the following letter of thanks to the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University in acknowledgement of his appointment as an Associate in Research in that centre for the year 2020-2021, finalised in mid August 2020.… Read
Xu Zhangrun’s Fears & Hopes, July 2018-July 2020
Viral Alarm
On 26 July 2018, Xu Zhangrun (許章潤, 1962-), a well-known professor of law at Tsinghua University published an essay titled ‘Imminent Fears, Immediate Hopes’ 我們當下的恐懼與期待. Written in a succinct and powerful form of literary Chinese, Xu’s jeremiad analysed the authoritarian revanchism of what the Chinese media were hailing as the New Epoch of Xi Jinping Thought.… Read