Watching China Watching 不出戶,知天下 不窺牖,見天道 China Heritage launched the series Watching China Watching in January 2018. In it we offer essays and reflections on studying the Chinese world and approaches t ...
This is the eighty eighth 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 ...
The Chinese rubric of this chapter in Seeds of Fire at Forty is a famous line from Tao Te Ching, Chapter 42, one to which ...
The two 1966 editorials from the People’s Daily reprinted here relate to the themes touched on in our discussion of the Ghost Festival. In the first, ‘Sweep Away All Monsters and Demons’, published on ...
In 2021, a century after Stefan Zweig wrote about the invisible republic of the spirit, we adapted the concept to our ongoing investigation into what we have long dubbed The Other China. In 1921, ...
‘The Dark Prince’ is Part I of ‘China’s Heart of Darkness’, Jianying Zha’s coruscating reflections on the legacy of the ancient thinker Han Fei and the Legalist school in Xi Jinping’s China. It ...
This chapter in Intersection with Eternity is paired with MAGADU — Kubla Khan, Xanadu & the 2024 American presidential election, part of our series Spectres & Souls, our account of the Danse Macabre ...
The Fifteenth Day of the Eighth Month of the lunar calendar, a day that in 2026 — the Bingwu Year of the Horse 丙午馬年 — falls on the 25th of September, marks the Mid Autumn Festival 中秋節. A major ...
Igor de Rachewiltz — scholar, colleague, friend — passed away on this day one year ago. We are privileged to be able to publish the edited transcript of an interview that Igor gave to the editors of ...
In the essay On Heritage we offered the Rationale behind China Heritage. We noted that the character 遺 yí — the leitmotif of our journal — in the hand of the Tang-dynasty artist Li Huailin 李懷琳 is ...