Seeds of Fire at Forty 蜀犬吠日 In 1996, three decades ago, I was commissioned by Wired Magazine to undertake the first survey of ...

Mythopoetic China 口服、手服、心服 China’s party-state is underpinned by a culture of submission. During the Yan’an Decade ...

In this celebration of the northern autumn of 2026, the Beijing artist Lao Shu again plucks virtual chrysanthemums at the imagined home of Tao Yuanming 陶淵明, China’s most famous poet-recluse. Elsewhere ...

time will pass with the revolving sun and moon. I never cared for praise in my lifetime, and it matters not at all what eulogies are sung after my death. The poet-recluse Tao Yuanming wrote these ...

For two years, we’ve been trudging through sludge, trapped in Trump’s MAGgoty reality-show rerun. We wake up every morning to the dread realization that a demented conman in a mangy rug still occupies ...

On 1 July 2017, China Heritage marked the twentieth anniversary of mainland China extending suzerainty over Hong Kong with a series of translations, commentaries and art works. Our series began with ...

‘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 ...

Lao Shu 老樹 is the nom de plume of Liu Shuyong (劉樹勇, 1962-), a Beijing-based artist, writer, critic and professor in communications. His artistic voice is unique and personal, its tenor, whimsy and ...

The Tao and the Power 道德經, attributed to Laozi 老子 (5th or 4th century BCE), is one of the most famous Chinese works. Previously, China Heritage has introduced chapters from a new translation of this ...

The world itself is without strife, it’s just people’s hearts that make it so. As for all of those differences and distinctions, in reality there is neither the past nor the present. A Record of ...

In ‘China’s Political Silly Season’ we quoted an anonymous petition calling on Xi Jinping to retire at the Twentieth Party Congress. It read in part: From the Eighteenth Party Congress [in November ...

Political power struggles in the People’s Republic of China have an ineluctable rhythm. Every five to ten years the quotidian thrum of wrangling reaches a dramatic crescendo as the contention between ...