Contra Trump 知識菁英 We have previously featured the cod philosophers of the Dark Enlightenment in our series Contra Trump. They are part of a heavily capitalised intellectual current that advocates, and agitates, for the radical privatisation of the public good in the name of ‘individual sovereignty’.… Read

Celebrating New Sinology 時過境遷 This chapter in Celebrating New Sinology, which is the theme of China Heritage Annual 2025, features the text of lunch-time remarks that I made in May 2015 at a meeting of China Matters, a Sydney based government adjacent think tank (now defunct).… Read

Contra Trump 臣弒其君，可乎   On 6 November 2020, the day of Donald Trump’s defeat in the presidential election, we published A Trumpty Dumpty Denouement. It was a prelude to China Heritage Annual 2021 which was titled Spectres & Souls — Vignettes, moments and meditations on China and America, 1861-2021.… Read

The Other China 書畫古今聚復散   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

Contra Trump 負隅頑抗   Marc Elias is an American lawyer and a nationally recognised authority in voting rights, redistricting and law. In 2020, he led the historic legal effort to protect voting rights, winning over sixty lawsuits against the Republican Party’s efforts to suppress the vote.… Read

Contra Trump 破字當頭 I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip.… Read