China Heritage

The Other China 打通上下古今 Teacher’s Festival 教師節, or ‘teacher’s day’, was originally celebrated in China on 6 June.

The Other China We travelled together for a time — we weathered a storm and stood together at that ferry crossing to watch the sunset.

Seeds of Fire at Forty 一個幽靈在中國大地遊蕩 Mao Zedong died fifty years ago, in the early hours of 9 September 1976.

This is the eighty-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 his reading life.… Read

Seeds of Fire Celebrating Four Decades 李白陸 In ‘Take Xi Jinping at his word’, the essay by Greg Sheridan, Foreign Affairs editor of The Australian, reproduced below, Pierre Ryckmans, Kevin Rudd and I are brought together for the first time since August 200…

The Other China 夏去秋來，四時輪轉 夏去秋來，四時輪轉 — ‘Summer now gives way to autumn, the cycle of seasons in a changeful year’.