The Other China 坐觀 China Heritage marked the last day of 2023 in the company of Lao Shu 老樹, among others. We featured a painting by the Beijing-based artist with the following inscription: It’s a nightmare out there,
assholes wherever you go.… Read

驅邪   We are reissuing A Monkey King’s Journey to the East on 1 January 2024, seven years since it was published on 1 January 2017, the first essay in China Heritage.… Read

The Tower of Reading 舐眼   Zhang Dai (張岱, 1597-ca. 1684) was an historian and essayist active in the late-Ming and early Qing dynasties. Below we offer two translations by Duncan Campbell. … Read

Xi Jinping’s Empire of Tedium Appendix LVIII 蠅營狗苟   In 2024 it will be a hundred years since Lu Xun published ‘The Shadow’s Farewell’ 影的告別, a darkly mesmeric prose-poem about the dilemmas of the age.… Read

Watching China Watching   Watching China Watching, a series launched by China Heritage in January 2018, offers essays and reflections on studying the Chinese world and approaches to understanding the Chinese People’s Republic.… Read

The Tower of Reading   ‘No one understands me!’ 莫我知也夫。 Confucius’s famous — and, truth be told, somewhat smug — lament is recorded in The Analects, the influential collection of observations, brief statements, short dialogues and anecdotes attributed to him.… Read