Contra Trump 遷臣逐客 If Americans want to change their government, they’re going to have to get over their dictator phobia. — Curtis Yarvin America is not a software company. And letting a thin-skinned, Ketamine-fueled, video-game cheating, Nazi apologist billionaire take over the machinery of the United States is not something that anyone voted for.… Read

The Other China 燈節 The Fifteenth Day of the First Month of the New Year 正月十五 marks the first full moon of the Lunisolar New Year. Generally called Yuanxiao 元宵, literally ‘First Evening’, it is also the height of the Lantern Festival 燈節 which was traditionally celebrated from the Hanging of Lanterns 上燈 on the Thirteenth Day to the Taking Down of Lanterns 落燈 on the Eighteenth Day of the First Month.… Read

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