‘You Are One of One’ — an author on AI writing

Seeds of Fire 40th Anniversary The human chorus is incomplete without your voice. This quotation comes from an interview with Dave Eggers, writer, publisher, teacher, on the Wild Card podcast. During the conversation, Eggers says that he tells his students that: Your voice is the only thing that you have naturally.… Read

A Raid on the Kingdom of the Past

Seeds of Fire 40th Anniversary   China Heritage was launched on 15 December 2016 at a conference about ‘Political Enchantments: aesthetic practices and the Chinese state’. Invited to present the opening address I addressed the theme of Living with Xi Dada’s China — making choices and cutting deals.… Read

The Case of the Deceptive Duck

The Other China 鴨騙戰爭 ‘If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.’ Unless, of course, the duck is being sold as goose drumsticks.… Read

Poetic Couplets from Lao Shu’s Atelier

The Other China 書房對聯   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 profundity evoke what for decades we have called The Other China — a cultural noosphere that is as undeniably local as it is universal.… Read