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So starts the winter ... Lao Shu asks: ‘Head off for hotpot or head into the hills?’
The Other China 立冬 火鍋或曠野 In this chapter of The Other China, we join the artist Lao Shu to mark 11 November, a relatively new Chinese festive day, and bid farewell to the northern autumn
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Proof of Life — Xu Zhangrun in Barbed Wire
Xu Zhangrun Archive 千里冰封,萬里雪飄 On 4 November 2025, Jingzhou Tao 陶景洲 told his online followers that he had met up with his old friend, Xu Zhangrun, one of China’s most famous ‘internal exiles’, a
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Jeremy Goldkorn
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New Rhyming Chaos podcast in which I interview CNN chief international correspondent Clarissa Ward on reporting from a capital city as a horde of religious extremists take over—and I'm not talking about Washington D.C.!
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How does a city feel when it's invaded by an occupying army?
Clarissa Ward has reported for CNN on many of the major wars of the last decade. She talks about entering Kabul as it fell to the Taliban, Syria, Ukraine, and more.
https://www.rhymingchaos.com/p/how-does-a-city-feel-when-its-invaded
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A poetic critique of Trump’s Gatsby-esque Halloween bash in the style of pre-Qin obloquy:
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The Ji Clan at Mar-a-Lago
Celebrating New Sinology & Contra Trump 碩鼠 In The Shame of Mar-a-Lago, reproduced here with the permission of China Thought Express, the cultural critic Ren Jingjing 任晶晶 offers a commentary on Mar-a-L...
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Going off the Rails with Jianying Zha
The Other China 脫軌餘生 Should fish suddenly start to talk, I suppose that ichthyology would also have to undergo a dramatic revision of its basic approach. A certain type of ‘instant sinology’ was ind...
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Halloween 2025 — Tedium to the Left, Tedium to the Right
The Empires of Tedium 無奈江山 May the young people of China cast aside indifference, move ever upwards and ignore voices that might discourage them. Those who can, should take action, while those who c...
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Double Brightness and the Fag-end of Autumn with Lao Shu
Celebrating New Sinology 九月初九 重陽節 The 29th of October 2025 is the Ninth Day of the Ninth Month in the traditional lunar calendar 農曆九月初九. It marks the Double Ninth or Double Brightness Festival 重陽節.
https://chinaheritage.net/journal/double-brightness-and-the-fag-end-of-autumn-with-lao-shu/
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“Eaten my fill, drank to the lees, the focus is now on sleep. Why do anything else when reality is just so ridiculous?” 吃飽喝足之後, 主要就是睡覺。 還能做點什麼? 現實這般可笑。 — Lao Shu 老樹
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When Cats Sleep, Perchance to Dream
The Other China 吾貓臥遊 Eaten my fill, drank to the lees, the focus is now on sleep. Why do anything else when reality is just so ridiculous? 吃飽喝足之後, 主要就是睡覺。 還能做點什麼? 現實這般可笑。 — Lao Shu 老樹
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Jeremy Goldkorn
21 days ago
New Rhyming Chaos podcast: Kazakhstan, clan politics, doing bizness and more.
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When will people rise up and overthrow the dictator? Not now.
Shades of authoritarianism in Central Asia, with scholar Edward Schatz.
https://www.rhymingchaos.com/p/when-will-people-rise-up-and-overthrow
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Gil Durán
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currently the winning thumbnail 🐀 forget the lies you have been told! rats are empathetic, intelligent, and sweet pocket puppies. and their tails are beautiful.
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The Magic Christian & a Reign of Scheiße
Contra Trump 大撒幣 As an estimated seven million Americans took part in the No Kings protests on Saturday 18 October 2025, the country’s president, Donald J. Trump uploaded a protest of his own. An AI-g...
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Gil Durán
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Katherine Boyle, former Peter Thiel intern, says government is an enemy of families. So she's investing in high-tech weaponry...for the government. I shared my thoughts on her "American Dynamism" — a VC pitch-deck version of Christian nationalism. NYT gift link:
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The Tech Right Gets Its Own Phyllis Schlafly
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/business/katherine-boyle-andreesen-horowitz-american-dynamism.html?unlocked_article_code=1.uk8.mU-j.HzzSirfTQhZQ&smid=url-share
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Another perspective on the No Kings protests of 18 October 2025:
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How “No Kings” Betrays 1776
Contra Trump 打著紅旗反紅旗 On every side the chorus now went up that the old liberal civilization was at an end because man was vile. “There is a Hitler in each of us.” This unpolitical excuse
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Jeremy Goldkorn
30 days ago
New Rhyming Chaos podcast:
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Charm and authoritarianism in the 21st century
How do politicians deploy charm? Author and scholar Julia Sonnevend discusses the way leaders in Hungary and around the world seduce and deceive their way to power.
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牛馬有的是,就缺驢。
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Other People’s Thoughts LXVII
Other People’s Thoughts This is the sixty-seventh chapter in Other People's Thoughts, a China Heritage series inspired by a compilation of quotations put together by Simon Leys (Pierre Ryckmans), one ...
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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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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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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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On Gore Vidal’s centenary.
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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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‘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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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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“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...
https://chinaheritage.net/journal/other-peoples-thoughts-lxvi/
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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
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when the interview goes well:
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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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Li Yuan discusses JF Books and Sino-liberalism with Yu Miao:
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EP-170 从上海到华盛顿:季风书园与中国公民社会的覆灭与新生丨于淼 | 季风书店 | 自由主义 | 季风人文讲坛 | 独立中文书店 | 离散华人 |
YouTube video by 不明白播客
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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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about 2 months ago
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Mrs. Betty Bowers
2 months ago
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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Six poems by Lucas Jones
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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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2 months ago
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Radley Balko
2 months ago
Not comprehending how the same
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Opinion | Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/opinion/charlie-kirk-assassination-fear-politics.html
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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...
https://www.theideasletter.org/essay/chinas-independent-media/
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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...
https://chinaheritage.net/journal/other-peoples-thoughts-lxv/
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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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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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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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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...
https://open.substack.com/pub/bostonreviewofbooks/p/abe?r=4gssn
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Gil Durán on recent moves by Peter Thiel, the loonie tech billionaire, and conservative displeasure with the greasy but influential nincompoop Curtis Yarvin:
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Peter Thiel Antichrist Antics Continue
Tech billionaire to lecture on Biblical bogeyman in San Francisco
https://www.thenerdreich.com/peter-thiel-antichrist-antics-continue/
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The Duck of American Fascism
Contra Trump When I see a bird that quacks like a duck, walks like a duck, has feathers and webbed feet and associates with ducks—I’m certainly going to assume that he is a duck. In 1946,
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Jeremy Goldkorn
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New Rhyming Chaos podcast with
@andreapitzer.bsky.social
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American concentration camps
Andrea Pitzer—author of 'One Long Night'—on mass internment and other human rights abuses in Trump's America.
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The Borowitz Report
3 months ago
The one part of Ghislaine's transcript that seemed fishy to me was when she said "If Jerome Powell doesn't cut interest rates he's a TOTAL LOSER. Thank you for your attention to this matter"
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Jeremy Goldkorn
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Trump has gone soft on China, and was never really hard on China, and is completely unhinged are my takeaways! (I worked on this conversation)
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A Guide to Censorship in China
Strange processes determine what does—or doesn’t—get published.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/19/china-censorship-media-ccp-journalism-film-television/
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Howard French
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Kwame Nkrumah. The Second Emancipation. My column.
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Opinion | The Man Who Saw the Future of Africa
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The Strange Tales of Aladdin Dogballs
Celebrating New Sinology 狗蛋誌異 The culture of Qi-Lu 齊魯, modern-day Shandong province, brackets the Chinese tradition. At one end there are thinkers like Confucius, Zhuangzi and Mencius, while at the ot...
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This is Water — ‘the only choice we get is what to worship’
Intersecting with Eternity 上善若水 Intersecting with Eternity is a mini-anthology of literary and artistic works, both past and present, that form part of an unbroken stream of human awareness and poe...
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Other People’s Thoughts LXIII
This is the sixty-third 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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Turd Blossoms on West Lake
Celebrating New Sinology 西湖屎蘤 山外青山樓外樓, 西湖歌舞幾時休。 暖風熏得遊人醉, 直把杭州作汴州。 Beyond the hills blue hills, beyond the pavilions mansions yet — singing and dancing on West lake — will there ever be an end? Idle ...
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The Borowitz Report
3 months ago
Molly Ivins's quote about Dan Quayle applies equally well to Trump: “If you put that man’s brain in a bumblebee, it would fly backwards.”
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Tisha b'Av 2025 — The Weeping Prophet and Israel’s Immanent Critics
Contra Trump 後人哀之 而不鑒之 ‘There is no reason why Israel cannot also become Pharoah.’ — Yeshayahu Leibowitz Tisha b'Av (the Ninth of Av), which in 2025 falls on 2-3 August, is regarded as the saddest
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A Considerable Speck
Intersecting with Eternity 宇宙之大,蒼蠅之微,皆可取材 Intersecting with Eternity is a mini-anthology of literary and artistic works, both past and present, that form part of an unbroken stream of human awarenes...
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