The Other China 誤在紅塵   We greeted the New Year on 1 January 2025 with the art and poetry of Lao Shu. Here we mark the end of the Year of the Dragon with a further selection of his work.… Read

Contra Trump 移裔 In the conclusion of the inaugural address he delivered in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington D.C. on 20 January 2025, Donald J. Trump, the 47th President of the United States of America, declared that ‘The future is ours, and our golden age has just begun.’… Read

Contra Trump 勝利萬歲！ Fascism … is more of an energy than an ideology. It does not communicate through the mind. It is pumped into the heart and enforced by the fist.… Read

Contra Trump 丟掉幻想   The 18th of January 2025 marks the beginning of the celebrations surrounding the second inauguration of Donald J. Trump as president of the United States of America.… Read

Other People’s Thoughts This is the fifty third 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

Contra Trump
— Spectres & Souls No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride … and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well … maybe chalk it up to forced consciousness expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten.… Read