China Heritage was launched on 15 December 2016 at the
conference ‘Political Enchantments: aesthetic practices and the Chinese
state’. That conference, organised by Gloria Davies 黃樂嫣 and Christian Sorace
with the support of the Australian Centre on China in the World, was
held at ANU House in Melbourne, Australia. Gloria and Christian invited
me to present an opening address, the title of which was ‘Living with Xi
Dada’s China — making choices and cutting deals’. At the end of my
remarks I announced that John Minford and I had founded The Wairarapa Academy for New Sinology whereupon I formally launched our website, China Heritage.
I am grateful to Gloria and Christian for their kind invitation, and
to the participants in the conference for their indulgent response. My
thanks also to David Sheehy of Monash Arts for recording my speech, to Callum Smith, the designer of China Heritage who attended the conference, and to Lois Conner for allowing me to use her work here.
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