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 ...

The 18th of October 2026 is the Ninth Day of the Ninth Month in the traditional Chinese calendar 農曆九月初九. It marks the Double Ninth or Double Brightness Festival 重陽節, a celebration that follows shortly ...

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.

It is five years since we published ‘A Monkey King’s Journey to the East’, the inaugural article in China Heritage, and ten years since what would soon become the irresistible rise of Xi Jinping. We ...

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 ...

Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruin’d choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. Although the sweet song of birds has faded amidst the hanging yellow leaves of the autumn, below ...

‘The Revenant Han Fei’ is Part III 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 ...

This is Part II of My Father Bao Tong, a biographical essay by Bao Pu written to commemorate the life of Bao Tong. Bao Tong (鮑彤, 1932-2022), former Director of the Office of Political Reform of the ...

Imperial metaphors are frequently used both in reporting on and studying modern China. Since his rise to power in 2012, Xi Jinping has been described variously as ‘a new emperor’ or ‘red emperor’. The ...

Tsinghua University formally celebrated its 108th anniversary on the 28th of April 2019. Grand ceremonies involving prominent government officials, local and international dignitaries and hand-picked ...