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China Heritage @chinaheritage.bsky.social · 7h

And here’s good old Christopher Hitchens making the case for “the Grocer’s Daughter”:

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In this lost essay by the late Christopher Hitchens, he reveals his penchant for right-wing women. It is a brilliant, perfect jewel of an essay on politics and sexuality by a great writer.

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China Heritage @chinaheritage.bsky.social · 1d

Brendan: When Thiel lectured theologians at Innsbruck their conclusion was: “Nicht genügend” (roughly not even sufficient to be submitted for academic consideration). To use one of my favourite academic putdowns, I’d translate that as: “You’re not even wrong.”

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China Heritage @chinaheritage.bsky.social · 3d

Jeremy: it’s “giving” 捉刀代笔…

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China Heritage @chinaheritage.bsky.social · 4d

Ah, of course, centre of a fallen empire full of yoicks. Got it. (Laughs like a broken drain.)

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China Heritage @chinaheritage.bsky.social · 4d

But of course. What, youse grow up in a barn?

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China Heritage @chinaheritage.bsky.social · 4d

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Visiting Tao Yuanming in the Autumn

The Other China 再訪陶淵明 In this celebration of the northern autumn of 2025, the Beijing artist Lao Shu plucks virtual chrysanthemums at the imagined home of Tao Yuanming, China’s most famous poet-reclus...

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China Heritage @chinaheritage.bsky.social · 6d

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Amidst the Cascade of Inhumanities

The Other America 明河可望不可親願得乘槎一問津 The Other China has been a feature of my work since the frustrated Restoration, or Counter-Reform years, of the Chinese party-state in 1989-1992. More recently, I h...

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China Heritage @chinaheritage.bsky.social · 8d

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Mid Autumn Festival 2025

The Tower of Reading 念樓中秋 The Fifteenth Day of the Eighth Month of the lunar calendar, a day that in 2025 falls on the 6th of October, marks the Mid Autumn Festival 中秋節. A major

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China Heritage @chinaheritage.bsky.social · 9d

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On Gore Vidal’s centenary.

A Century of Gore

Contra Trump 國魂 ‘We certainly made a mess of the Mandate of Heaven.’ — Gore Vidal, 2008 The 4th of October 2025 marks the centenary of Gore Vidal’s birth. We mark the occasion with a

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China Heritage @chinaheritage.bsky.social · 11d

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‘Break a leg’, that’s not just an old saw. Notes on the Riyadh Comedy Festival 2025

Contra Trump 豬八戒照鏡子 … the festival takes place on the seventh anniversary of Washington Post reporter Jamal Khashoggi being murdered by Saudi government officials on October 2, 2018. In 2021, Presiden...

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China Heritage @chinaheritage.bsky.social · 13d

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Interview | Geremie R. Barmé: Constructing “New Sinology” with an Eye to the Eastern Bloc

Editor’s Note: In 2005, Australian Sinologist Geremie R.

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China Heritage @chinaheritage.bsky.social · 15d

“Behold. The festering carcass of American rot shoved into an ill-fitting suit: the sleaze of a conman, the cowardice of a draft dodger, the gluttony of a parasite, the racism of a Klansman, the sexism of a back-alley creep … ” (from “Other People’s Thoughts 66”

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Other People’s Thoughts LXVI

This is the sixty-sixth chapter in Other People's Thoughts, a China Heritage series inspired by a compilation of quotations put together by Simon Leys (Pierre Ryckmans), one of our Ancestors, during h...

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China Heritage @chinaheritage.bsky.social · 19d

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Xu Zhangrun Mourns Jerome Cohen

Xu Zhangrun Archive In Memoriam: Jerome A. Cohen 精神家族一代師表——思祭孔傑榮先輩 A Eulogy by Xu Zhangrun 許章潤誄孔公 translated by G.R. Barmé (initial draft, 24.ix.25) Jerome Cohen enjoyed the longevity of a truly ...

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshksi.bsky.social · 20d

when the interview goes well: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Screenshot from New Yorker interview by Isaac Chotiner with Cass Sunstein

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China Heritage @chinaheritage.bsky.social · 21d

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Still Dissenting from Ba Jin

Celebrating New Sinology 謝巴公 On 17 October 2025 it will be twenty years since Ba Jin (巴金, the pen name of Li Yaotang 李堯棠, 1904-2005) died at the age of 100. As a reader and

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China Heritage @chinaheritage.bsky.social · 23d

Li Yuan discusses JF Books and Sino-liberalism with Yu Miao:

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YouTube video by 不明白播客

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China Heritage @chinaheritage.bsky.social · 24d

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Cancel Culture

Contra Trump 禁言 A picture is worth a thousand words. The Chinese rubric of this chapter in Contra Trump is 禁言 jìn yán, ‘to muzzle speech’. This has also long been characteristic of Xi Jinping’s Empire

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China Heritage @chinaheritage.bsky.social · 29d

Brendan, I’ll flag that with a St George’s Cross.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · Sep 12

I know that this a completely irrelevant observation, but it struck me as odd that a MAGA murderer knows how to use chopsticks.

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China Heritage @chinaheritage.bsky.social · Sep 12

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Six poems by Lucas Jones

I Met God at the Supermarket

Intersecting with Eternity A mini-anthology of literary and artistic works, both past and present, that are part of the unbroken stream of human awareness and poetic self-reflection, Intersecting with...

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China Heritage @chinaheritage.bsky.social · Sep 12

Quite so. The Ezra Klein “apologia” is unctuous, an expression of the sophism of Democrats of his ilk. Little wonder that the silken rhetoric of such Hollow Men is despised outside a charmed circle of self-delusional media mavens, politicos and their fellow-travelling hopium addicts.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · Sep 11

Not comprehending how the same @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social who interviewed me wrote this. I support the instinct to turn down the volume. But you can't simultaneously warn that we're the brink of authoritarianism while valorizing one of authoritarianism's most influential architects and supporters.

Opinion | Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way

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China Heritage @chinaheritage.bsky.social · Sep 11

Ouch! Is that what in Chinese they call 螺旋式上升？

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China Heritage @chinaheritage.bsky.social · Sep 11

Klein is finally disappearing entirely up his own fundament.

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China Heritage @chinaheritage.bsky.social · Sep 11

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China’s Independent Media - The Ideas Letter

China’s independent media has been largely dismantled under President Xi Jinping, but grassroots bloggers, exiled journalists, and small online communities continue to carve out fragile spaces for fre...

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