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China Heritage @chinaheritage.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 3d

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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 · 4d

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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 · 6d

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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 · 8d

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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 · 10d

“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 · 14d

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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 · 15d

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 · 16d

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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 · 18d

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

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China Heritage @chinaheritage.bsky.social · 19d

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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 · 24d

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

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26d

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 · 26d

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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 · 26d

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 · 27d

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 · 27d

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

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China Heritage @chinaheritage.bsky.social · 27d

Klein is finally disappearing entirely up his own fundament.

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China Heritage @chinaheritage.bsky.social · 28d

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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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China Heritage @chinaheritage.bsky.social · 29d

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Other People’s Thoughts LXV

This is the sixty-fifth 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 · Sep 7

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Dignity, Decency and the Lies of the Present

Sino-American Tedium 當仁不讓 Perhaps the point of learning from the past is not so much to uncover a lost truth as to understand historical patterns that help us see through the lies of the present.

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China Heritage @chinaheritage.bsky.social · Sep 2

Brendan: And those look like pretty moreish cakes. Couldn’t be happier for you both.

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China Heritage @chinaheritage.bsky.social · Sep 1

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70-20-10 and the Parading of Lies in Beijing on 3 September 2025

Celebrating New Sinology 真偽莫辨 In this chapter of Celebrating New Sinology, published on the eve of the 3 September 2025 Victory Day parade in Beijing, we start with a short essay on the ‘70-20-10

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China Heritage @chinaheritage.bsky.social · Aug 30

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The Narcotic Narcissism of Official History in Trump’s America and Xi Jinping’s China

Contra Trump 篡史亂今 ‘Trump’s team has declared war on free minds and free education in order to erase more than a half-century of scholarship and replace it with official triumphal narratives rooted in ...

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China Heritage @chinaheritage.bsky.social · Aug 28

This is a touching meditation on the recent “Liang Wendao incident” and the mainland ban on Liang’s “Eight and A-half Minute” series which focussed on the kind of moderate, open-minded humanism that is inimical to China’s party-state-army establishment:

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書評短評 | 梁文道：一種「常識」的存在

編者按：我是在蘋果podcast聽到梁文道《八分半》的最後一期節目《請你聽一首音樂》，這是我近期喜歡的內容之一。梁文道講了一位退休的名不見經傳的菲律賓室內錄音吉他手，在家拿著電吉他獨奏帕赫貝爾的D大調卡農的故事。一段獨特的音樂、兩個獨特的人，一種理性的光芒和一種自由的美。這讓我想起25年前剛去北京的那一年，中午在學生宿舍中，仰望吊在宿舍墻壁上的電視裡的《锵锵三人行》，聽著一種完全不同的話語與「常識...

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