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Beware of Barking Dogs that Bite — on China’s Great Firewall
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 the Chinese internet. Celebrated at the time as ‘the Rolling Stone of technology’, Wired had just published Computer Insect, my translation of an…
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Rambling Through the Fall with Lao Shu
The Other China 浪蕩秋風裡 為了一天三頓飯，只知埋頭把活幹。 春風吹時也瞎忙，花開花落總不見。 可憐歲月催人老，錯過美景太遺憾。 索性浪蕩秋風裡，且把黃葉當花看。 Head down and focussed on my job, fixated on covering three meals a day. Not a moment to enjoy the spring winds, flowers blossom and fall sight unseen.… Read
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Own Goals — Mbappé, the Spectre of Mao Zedong and China’s Global Culture of Submission
Mythopoetic China 口服、手服、心服 China’s party-state is underpinned by a culture of submission. During the Yan’an Decade (c.1937-1948), leaders like Mao Zedong and Liu Shaoqi, along with their loyalist theoreticians, melded abiding elements of state Confucianism, the influence of…
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The Banality of Evil with American Characteristics
Contra Trump 胸次之罪 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 the glitzed-up Oval Office (or as Obama put it, Saddam…
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Lao Shu’s Autumnal Benediction
The Other China 秋風落黃葉，亭下喝杯茶。 世事有人管，你說我忙啥？ Golden leaves are being downed by autumn zephyrs while I sip tea at my leisure here in this pavilion. Let others deal with all of those mundane matters, surely you don’t think that I should be bothered?… Read
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Other People’s Thoughts XC
This is the ninetieth 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
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Tesla Might be Able to Fly, but China’s Still Got More Hot Air — Dasheng’s Calligraphic Comments on Current Affairs (XIV)
The Other China 誰愛我呀 This is the fourteenth chapter in the series Dasheng’s Calligraphic Comments on Current Affairs, which features the calligraphy of Liu Chan, aka Dasheng, and his observations on the news of the day.… Read