Shervin Hajipour (شروین حاجی‌پور, born 1997) is an Iranian singer. His song Baraye has been described as ‘the anthem’ of the 2022 Mahsa Amini protests. After the song had gained over forty million views on Shervin’s Instagram page in the space of a few days, the singer was detained by the authorities.… Read

Xi Jinping’s Empire of Tedium Appendix XVII 點 China Heritage marks the national days of the two Chinas — 1 October 2022 on the mainland People’s Republic of China and 10 October 2022 on Taiwan’s Republic of China — with the crew of EyeCTV 眼球中央電視台.… Read

Watching China Watching & Xi Jinping’s Empire of Tedium
Appendix XVI 覿   In January 2018, we launched an ongoing series titled Watching China Watching. Over nearly five years we have published a number of essays and reflections on studying the Chinese world and approaches to understanding the Chinese People’s Republic.… Read

Jottings in New Sinology    China Heritage marks New Zealand Chinese Language Week 2022 (25 September-1 October 2022) by reprinting a poem and a series of tweets by Chris Tse, New Zealand’s poet laureate (2022-2024), as well as a report by Eda Tang for Stuff News.… Read

Other People’s Thoughts is a section in the Journal of the China Heritage site. It is inspired by a compilation of quotations put together by Simon Leys (Pierre Ryckmans), one of our Ancestors, during his reading life.… Read

Old & New Sinology in China The following paper by the historian Brian Moloughney originally appeared in the December 2017 issue of the New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies (NZJAS). We are grateful to Duncan Campbell for being this text to our attention and to the author, as well as Paola Voci, editor NJAS, for permission to reprint it.… Read