Spectres & Souls
Vignettes, moments and meditations
on China and America, 1861-2021
Raffi Katchadourian approached me to translate a poem for a story that he was working on for The New Yorker.… Read
Other People’s Thoughts, XXI
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
Other People’s Thoughts, XX
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
A Word of Advice to the Biden Administration
Spectres & Souls
Vignettes, moments and meditations
on China and America, 1861-2021 On cue, the Chinese media began publishing articles about the ‘revolving door’ in Washington following the US presidential election in early November 2020.… Read
on China and America, 1861-2021 On cue, the Chinese media began publishing articles about the ‘revolving door’ in Washington following the US presidential election in early November 2020.… Read
The State of the Sino-American Pas de Deux in 2021
Spectres & Souls
Vignettes, moments and meditations
on China and America, 1861-2021 We have previously compared the relationship between the United States and the People’s Republic of China to the Apache Dance, a Parisian stage act famous at the Moulin Rouge in the early twentieth century.… Read
on China and America, 1861-2021 We have previously compared the relationship between the United States and the People’s Republic of China to the Apache Dance, a Parisian stage act famous at the Moulin Rouge in the early twentieth century.… Read
Ox Herding & the Xinchou Year of the Ox 辛丑牛年
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The 12th of February 2021 marks the end of an eventful Gengzi Year of the Rat 庚子鼠年 and the first day of the Xinchou Year of the Ox 辛丑牛年 of 2021-2022.… Read