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

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

Xi Jinping’s Empire of Tedium Appendix LVII 傷感   The Village Voice published ‘Anatomy of a Massacre’, a review-essay of the documentary film The Gate of Heavenly Peace by Richard B.… Read

Hong Kong Apostasy 香江煉獄 On Monday 18 December 2023, Jimmy Lai (Lai Chee-ying 黎智英, 1947-), a former pro-democracy media tycoon went on trial under a Beijing-imposed national security law. Lai has been in custody since December 2020 and, on 8 December, he had turned seventy six.… Read

Xi Jinping’s Empire of Tedium Appendix XLIX (supplement) 車軲轆話   Summing up the essence of the latest ‘Democratic Life in the Party’ meeting of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party [on 21-22 December 2023], the political analyst Deng Yuwen noted that: ‘Xi Jinping called on members of the Politburo to take the lead in understanding, studying, and implementing Xi Jinping Thought.’… Read

Xi Jinping’s Empire of Tedium Chapter XXII (supplement) 抱薪者   Below we feature an interview that Li Yuan 袁莉 conducted with Li Ying 李穎, ‘Teacher Li’ 李老師不是你老師, on the first anniversary of the November 2022 protests in China.… Read