China Heritage

Other People’s Thoughts, XXIII

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

5.16 — Sorry, Not Sorry

Spectres & Souls On 16 May 1966, the Communist Party secretly issued the ‘May Sixteenth Circular’《五·一六通知》 to party, state and army organisations throughout China. It was circulated down to the level of county party committees, party committees in the cultural organizations, and party committees at regimental level in the army.… Read

The Spectre of Prince Han Fei in Xi Jinping’s China

Spectres & Souls Vignettes, moments and meditations on
China and America, 1861-2021 ‘China’s Heart of Darkness — Prince Han Fei & Chairman Xi Jinping’, a five-part essay by Jianying Zha 查建英 offered readers a provocative study of the legacy of the ancient thinker Han Fei and the Legalist school in Xi Jinping’s China by one of contemporary Sino-America’s most insightful cultural critics.… Read

Other People’s Thoughts, XXII

On the End of an Error — Day Ten of Jianying Zha & Katō Yoshikazu’s New Decameron

Spectres & Souls Vignettes, moments and meditations on
China and America, 1861-2021 The following exchange between Jianying Zha 查建英 and Katō Yoshikazu 加藤嘉一 comes at the end of the final chapter of Freedom Is Not Free — A New Decameron, the record of a conversation between the two writers, one from China, who is an American, and the other from Japan, who has been a long-term resident of China.… Read

‘I Hereby Cancel Myself’ — Lee Yee

The Best China In the first installment of The Best China, a China Heritage series focussed on Hong Kong launched on 1 July 2017, we introduced readers to recent commentaries written by the veteran journalist Lee Yee 李怡 (李秉堯).… Read