The Fall of Lao Shu

The Other China   The following selection of paintings by Lao Shu reflect the temper of the autumn months of 2023 — the fall. *** 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.… Read

Other People’s Thoughts XXXIX

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

From jail, Xu Zhiyong asks ‘Whither China?’

Xi Jinping’s Empire of Tedium Appendix LVI 向何處去   ‘Where to from here?’ 向何處去, ‘Exploring every avenue’ 上下求索, ‘What’s to be done? 怎麼辦, ‘What is to be avoided and what is to be followed?’… Read

An Award for Professor Xu Zhangrun

Xu Zhangrun Archive   On 5 December 2023, the Wei Jingsheng Foundation announced that Professor Xu Zhangrun had been awarded the Twentieth Annual Wei Jingsheng Chinese Democracy Champion Prize. The text of the announcement is reproduced below.… Read

A Solitary Pursuit — ‘… then begins a journey in my head’

The Tower of Reading 獨樂 In On Heritage, our ‘manifesto’, we quoted, ‘Letter to Shan Tao’ 與山巨源絕交書 by Xi Kang (嵇康, 223-262CE). In it the author declares that the ‘wayward’ ideas of Taoist sages had long influenced his otherworldly predisposition: … My taste for independence was aggravated by my reading of Zhuangzi and Laozi; as a result any desire for fame or success grew daily weaker, and my commitment to freedom increasingly firmer.… Read