Slavoj Zizek looks awry at classical Chinese thought, "Is, then, Heaven not the Chinese name for the big Other? Is not, in this sense, the Communist Party rule legitimized by the Mandate of Heaven..." Our gaze shifts to see a surprisingly contemporary relevance in the ongoing battle between Confucius and Hanfei. In Eileen Chang's "The Blockade," as the trolley car comes to a standstill, time itself veers into an eternal moment of free imagination,...