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December 4, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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Here we mark Thanksgiving 2025 with Jianli’s Grace & Justice followed by an analysis of the poem by Ren Jingjing.
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No Thanks Given — the poet Jianli on a celebration of American amnesia
Contra Trump 投木報瓊 Grace & Justice is a work in Old Odes, New Poems 新詩經體詩, a series by Jianli that draws inspiration from The Book of Songs, the fountain head of Chinese literature. It
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November 27, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Here we mark Thanksgiving 2025 with Jianli’s Grace & Justice followed by an analysis of the poem by Ren Jingjing.
chinaheritage.net/journal/no-t...
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‘The tones of a ruined state are filled with lament and brooding: its people are in difficulty’ 亡國之音哀以思，其民困。
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When to Cherish Virtue is an Indictment — the poet Jianli on Donald Trump’s America
Celebrating New Sinology 眾女嫉余之蛾眉兮 謠諑謂余以善淫 The Ji Clan at Mar-a-Lago, a chapter in our Contra Trump series, featured a poem by Jianli. Drawing on classical literary forms and allusions found in China’s...
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November 25, 2025 at 12:19 AM
‘The tones of a ruined state are filled with lament and brooding: its people are in difficulty’ 亡國之音哀以思，其民困。
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“In his chronicle of the Yin-Shang dynasty, the Grand Historian of the Han dynasty Sima Qian remarked that its decline was ‘marked by endless sexual predation and disorder’ 淫亂不止. It’s an epitaph fit for Jeffrey Epstein and his class.”
“In his chronicle of the Yin-Shang dynasty, the Grand Historian of the Han dynasty Sima Qian remarked that its decline was ‘marked by endless sexual predation and disorder’ 淫亂不止. It’s an epitaph fit for Jeffrey Epstein and his class.”
On the ‘Epstein Class’
Contra Trump 獨夫無厭 殷鑒不遠 In Hemail Peril, a chapter in Contra Trump devoted to the ‘Epstein Files’ and the putrid core of Donald J. Trump’s presidency, we quoted Tina Brown: Jeffrey Epstein is the
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November 23, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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“In his chronicle of the Yin-Shang dynasty, the Grand Historian of the Han dynasty Sima Qian remarked that its decline was ‘marked by endless sexual predation and disorder’ 淫亂不止. It’s an epitaph fit for Jeffrey Epstein and his class.”
“In his chronicle of the Yin-Shang dynasty, the Grand Historian of the Han dynasty Sima Qian remarked that its decline was ‘marked by endless sexual predation and disorder’ 淫亂不止. It’s an epitaph fit for Jeffrey Epstein and his class.”
“A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world.”
— John Le Carré, “The Honourable Schoolboy”
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— John Le Carré, “The Honourable Schoolboy”
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Other People’s Thoughts LXVIII
Other People’s Thoughts This is the sixty-eighth chapter in Other People's Thoughts, a China Heritage series inspired by a compilation of quotations put together by Simon Leys (Pierre Ryckmans), one o...
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November 14, 2025 at 4:42 AM
“A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world.”
— John Le Carré, “The Honourable Schoolboy”
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— John Le Carré, “The Honourable Schoolboy”
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New Rhyming Chaos podcast in which I interview CNN chief international correspondent Clarissa Ward on reporting from a capital city as a horde of religious extremists take over—and I'm not talking about Washington D.C.!
How does a city feel when it's invaded by an occupying army?
Clarissa Ward has reported for CNN on many of the major wars of the last decade. She talks about entering Kabul as it fell to the Taliban, Syria, Ukraine, and more.
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November 7, 2025 at 2:36 AM
New Rhyming Chaos podcast in which I interview CNN chief international correspondent Clarissa Ward on reporting from a capital city as a horde of religious extremists take over—and I'm not talking about Washington D.C.!
A poetic critique of Trump’s Gatsby-esque Halloween bash in the style of pre-Qin obloquy:
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The Ji Clan at Mar-a-Lago
Celebrating New Sinology & Contra Trump 碩鼠 In The Shame of Mar-a-Lago, reproduced here with the permission of China Thought Express, the cultural critic Ren Jingjing 任晶晶 offers a commentary on Mar-a-L...
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November 6, 2025 at 6:06 AM
A poetic critique of Trump’s Gatsby-esque Halloween bash in the style of pre-Qin obloquy:
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“Eaten my fill, drank to the lees,
the focus is now on sleep.
Why do anything else when
reality is just so ridiculous?”
吃飽喝足之後，
主要就是睡覺。
還能做點什麼？
現實這般可笑。
— Lao Shu 老樹
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the focus is now on sleep.
Why do anything else when
reality is just so ridiculous?”
吃飽喝足之後，
主要就是睡覺。
還能做點什麼？
現實這般可笑。
— Lao Shu 老樹
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When Cats Sleep, Perchance to Dream
The Other China 吾貓臥遊 Eaten my fill, drank to the lees, the focus is now on sleep. Why do anything else when reality is just so ridiculous? 吃飽喝足之後， 主要就是睡覺。 還能做點什麼？ 現實這般可笑。 — Lao Shu 老樹
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October 26, 2025 at 10:21 PM
“Eaten my fill, drank to the lees,
the focus is now on sleep.
Why do anything else when
reality is just so ridiculous?”
吃飽喝足之後，
主要就是睡覺。
還能做點什麼？
現實這般可笑。
— Lao Shu 老樹
chinaheritage.net/journal/when...
the focus is now on sleep.
Why do anything else when
reality is just so ridiculous?”
吃飽喝足之後，
主要就是睡覺。
還能做點什麼？
現實這般可笑。
— Lao Shu 老樹
chinaheritage.net/journal/when...
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New Rhyming Chaos podcast: Kazakhstan, clan politics, doing bizness and more.
When will people rise up and overthrow the dictator? Not now.
Shades of authoritarianism in Central Asia, with scholar Edward Schatz.
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October 23, 2025 at 4:56 AM
New Rhyming Chaos podcast: Kazakhstan, clan politics, doing bizness and more.
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forget the lies you have been told! rats are empathetic, intelligent, and sweet pocket puppies.
and their tails are beautiful.
forget the lies you have been told! rats are empathetic, intelligent, and sweet pocket puppies.
and their tails are beautiful.
October 21, 2025 at 9:02 PM
currently the winning thumbnail 🐀
forget the lies you have been told! rats are empathetic, intelligent, and sweet pocket puppies.
and their tails are beautiful.
forget the lies you have been told! rats are empathetic, intelligent, and sweet pocket puppies.
and their tails are beautiful.
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Katherine Boyle, former Peter Thiel intern, says government is an enemy of families.
So she's investing in high-tech weaponry...for the government.
I shared my thoughts on her "American Dynamism" — a VC pitch-deck version of Christian nationalism.
NYT gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/b...
So she's investing in high-tech weaponry...for the government.
I shared my thoughts on her "American Dynamism" — a VC pitch-deck version of Christian nationalism.
NYT gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/b...
The Tech Right Gets Its Own Phyllis Schlafly
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October 19, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Katherine Boyle, former Peter Thiel intern, says government is an enemy of families.
So she's investing in high-tech weaponry...for the government.
I shared my thoughts on her "American Dynamism" — a VC pitch-deck version of Christian nationalism.
NYT gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/b...
So she's investing in high-tech weaponry...for the government.
I shared my thoughts on her "American Dynamism" — a VC pitch-deck version of Christian nationalism.
NYT gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/b...
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New Rhyming Chaos podcast: @mariarepnikova.bsky.social and I talk to Julia Sonnvend about her book on charm in contemporary politics and its use by strongmen:
Charm and authoritarianism in the 21st century
How do politicians deploy charm? Author and scholar Julia Sonnevend discusses the way leaders in Hungary and around the world seduce and deceive their way to power.
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October 15, 2025 at 3:03 AM
New Rhyming Chaos podcast: @mariarepnikova.bsky.social and I talk to Julia Sonnvend about her book on charm in contemporary politics and its use by strongmen:
