Contra Trump 畫地為牢 Rhyming Chaos is a podcast produced by Jeremy Goldkorn. It ‘comprises interviews with people who have lived through or studied periods of great change, upheaval, chaos, and authoritarian takeover.’… Read

Contra Trump 牟取暴利 You are not the voice of Main Street.
You are not a steward of small business.
You are a fuckin MEGA rich man crying in his coffee because the golden pipeline of cheap imports just coughed.… Read

Contra Trump 揚幡招魂   In April 1994, the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University held ‘Mao Craze, Mao Cult? A Symposium on Popular Culture in China Today’. On 23 April 1994, I presented a paper on the theme of ‘The Irresistible Fall and Rise of Mao Zedong’.… Read

Contra Trump 幾希   ‘Humans differ but little from beasts’ 人之所以異於禽於獸者幾希 is a well-known line in Mencius 孟子. Moreover, little separates humanity from the law of the jungle and it is why 幾稀 jǐxī, ‘scant’, ‘similar’,‘approximate’ — an expression made famous by Mencius — is the rubric of this chapter in Contra Trump.… Read

Contra Trump 叱咤風雲 On 31 March 2025, Jonathan Pie reposted his commentary on Donald J. Trump’s victory in the November 2016 US presidential election with the comment: Eight years on, and nothing has changed.… Read

Celebrating New Sinology 後之視今，亦猶今之視昔。 New Sinology Jottings was launched in 2017. They are compiled in the style of ‘jottings’ 筆記 or 劄記, a genre familiar to readers of traditional Chinese prose.… Read