Contra Trump 底兒朝天 This is another pandemic. Or a Chernobyl. It’s a bomb at the heart of the international order whose toxic fallout is going to inevitably drift our way. — Carole Cadwalladr Writing in The New York Times, the political commentator Noah Millman essayed the view that Donald Trump’s second presidency is nothing less than the fourth major challenge to America’s constitutional order since the War of Independence itself — the other three occurred during the Constitutional Convention of 1787, around the Civil War in the mid nineteenth century and in the aftermath of the Great Depression in the 1930s.… Read

Contra Trump   Our mistake was to think we could row this boat across the acid lake before the acid dissolved it. We quoted this line from Rebecca Solnit following the victory of Donald Trump in the 5 November 2024 US presidential election in What seeds can I plant in this muck?,… Read

Other People’s Thoughts This is the fifty fourth 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

Celebrating New Sinology 舉一反三   The following Q. & A. appeared in The New York Times in November 2015. It is reprinted here as part of our series Celebrating New Sinology — China Heritage Annual 2025.… Read

Contra Trump 苦迭打   In ‘Some Thoughts on a Glum Convergence’, remarks delivered at the State Library in Sydney, Australia, to mark the thirtieth anniversary of Australia-PRC relations in November 2002, I observed that: Once, many students of China shared a sense of fascinated engagement with a country that was vastly different from our own, one whose values and institutions were not only at variance, but markedly inferior to those of our own shores.… Read

Celebrating New Sinology   China Heritage marks the fifth year since COVID-19 infected China and swept the world by reproducing the following essay published online by Xu Zhangrun 許章潤 on 4 February 2020.… Read