“I stared into the Abyss. The Abyss stared back. Neither of us liked what we saw.” chinaheritage.net/journal/july...

Nunc fluens facit tempus, nunc stans facit aeternitatum. The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity. — Boethius chinaheritage.net/journal/lao-...

“In another life … the 79-year-old could be a classic aging gay, living in Wilton Manors, sitting at a bar, making bitchy comments to everyone who comes in…” — James Kirchik, author of “Secret City: The Hidden History of Washington” chinaheritage.net/journal/the-...

The latest chapter in the series “Contra Trump”: chinaheritage.net/journal/an-a...

On some of the successes and the failures of May Fourth, on 4 May 2026 chinaheritage.net/journal/lyin...

Calligrapher Liu Chan’s latest takes on the news: 神棍還还還不死 川皇又又又遇襲 chinaheritage.net/journal/the-...

The latest chapter in this series: David Sedaris has complained, “Checking is like being fucked in the ass by a hot thermos.” One of his fact checkers considered the analogy and said, “If a thermos works, the outside wouldn’t be hot.” chinaheritage.net/journal/othe...

Quite a flex to turn up at the presidential palace, get him to confirm you as prime minister, call him unfit to serve with no moral authority, tell him to resign, and then pose for a picture

chinaheritage.net/journal/from... Splashdown!

chinaheritage.net/journal/yinf... Yinfi’s is a clarion new voice that offers insights into the Xi Jinping era and its global significance:

chinaheritage.net/journal/othe... ‘The Dildo of Consequences Rarely Arrives Lubed’ is a catchphrase and internet proverb similar in meaning to proverbs such as ‘you reap what you sow’.

悲傷, ‘grief’, ‘sorrow’, ‘distress’ — two Chinese characters in the calligraphic hand of Li Xianting 栗憲庭 connect Li, Geng Xiaonan 耿蕭男, Tao Jingzhou 陶景洲 and Xu Zhangrun 許章潤, their long-persecuted friend. chinaheritage.net/journal/two-...

chinaheritage.net/journal/the-... “Things will not go how you want them to. Unlike previous empires, America can’t even make a desert; everywhere it goes the world reverts to mere chaos. State collapse, ethnic war, tribal militias forgetting how to speak, stammering and babbling over the ruins.”

chinaheritage.net/journal/covi... Recalling the Covid-19 years, Dr Li Wenliang and exploring the origins of ’China Maxxing’:

chinaheritage.net/journal/24-i... We mark the anniversary of Ukraine’s War of Resistance Against Russia, which started on this day four years ago, with a tribute by the Beijing-based calligrapher Liu Chan.

chinaheritage.net/journal/on-h... The 遺民 yímín of the Xi Jinping era espouse values and promote ideas that Xi and his comrades have been at pains to contain, corrupt and obliterate. By comparison, the acquiescent majority are 順民 shùnmín, which is another hallowed term from the Chinese tradition.

chinaheritage.net/journal/fuck... The commentator Wang Liuyuan offers his observations on Tama/ 踏馬/ 他媽, an expression featured in a Spring Festival Gala 春晚 song that was widely perceived as being a surprise middle finger to the status quo.

chinaheritage.net/journal/who-... The purged Professor Xu on a new year’s meal that he can’t eat:

chinaheritage.net/journal/on-t... “During Bingwu and Dingwei years, China has repeatedly experienced major changes, be they threats born within the land or humiliations originating with the barbarians outside.” 丙午、丁未之歲，中國遇此輒有變故，非禍生於內，則夷狄外侮。

Mark Clifford in his 2024 book on the recently sentenced Jimmy Lai: “History is littered with examples of single individuals posing earthshaking threats to totalitarian regimes. … Jimmy Lai refuses to yield. That is why the Chinese Communist Party fears him.” chinaheritage.net/journal/subl...

In the late 1990s, Peter Thiel read a strange book called "The Sovereign Individual: How To Survive and Thrive During the Collapse of the Welfare State." It predicted the decline of nations and the rise of a "cognitive elite" empowered by a new digital currency. And now...(coming August 2026)