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

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