Contra Trump 魘 We introduced Xi Jinping’s Empire of Tedium, a China Heritage series launched in 2022, with an essay titled You Should Look Back. It was a reference to Don’t Look Up, a film directed by Adam McKay released in December 2021 that tells the story of two astronomers who attempt to warn the world about an approaching comet that will destroy human civilization.… Read

Contra Trump 주체사상 On the eve of Donald Trump’s inauguration as the 45th President of the United States of America, we noted the parallels between that wannabe Occidental autocrat and Mao Zedong, that infamous Oriental despot (see publication of A Monkey King’s Journey to the East).… Read

Contra Trump 每個人被迫著發出最後的吼聲 From early 2017, China Heritage has noted, and frequently commented on, the trans-Pacific echoes of authoritarianism both in the People’s Republic of China and in the United States of America.… Read

Contra Trump 逍遙 This is the third chapter in Contra Trump that features a song parody by Randy Rainbow. The others are:

MAGADU — Kubla Khan, Xanadu & the 2024 American presidential election; and,

‘I Think I’m Gonna Hate It Here’ — Randy Rainbow introduces the clown-car cabinet of MAGADU.

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The Other China 學無中西之別也，無古今之別也，
唯有學與不學之別也。   Liu Chan 劉蟾, who also goes by the pen name 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

This is the fifty-fifth 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