Author name: Anna Chen

UK writer and broadcaster Anna Chen challenges stale empire narratives with original insights and a dash of wit. A politically informed artist, poet and pioneering China commentator, she has led successful strategies to raise consciousness and run over dogma with her karma. Cultural breakthroughs include: UK’s First Chinese Punk, First To Take A Show To The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Published Poet At 14, Orwell Prize Shortlisted, TED Speaker, BBC Writer And Presenter, Dissenting Journalist, Critical Thinker And Political Analyst. A lifetime of political analysis & cultural response in published articles, radio, videos, blog and poetry.

Jeremy Corbyn condemns cheap labour from abroad on day of Chinatown protest against immigration fishing raids

Labour dogwhistles echo Trump protectionism and the spirit of MAGA Congratulations and a big thank you to everyone who made it to today’s protest against the Home Office’s aggressive immigrant fishing raids blighting London’s Chinatown, called by the London Chinatown Chinese Association. These raids have intensified under the Tories’ hostile environment ever since the Brexit […]

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When is a dress just a dress? American teenager’s Chinese prom dress and cultural appropriation

Anna Chen writes in the Guardian, An American woman wearing a Chinese dress is not cultural appropriation (Guardian headline and standfirst written by sub-eds) PROM pic.twitter.com/gsJ0LtsCmP — Keziah (@daumkeziah) April 22, 2018 When is a dress just a dress? Remember those photos of the little cocktail number that looked blue with black lace to some

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Anna Chen’s band The Snow Leopards – photos from the mists of time

Found some old pics of me with my band, The Snow Leopards. Even before Apple! Well, it was long, long time ago in a universe far, far away … Cruella coat designed by Dave Vanian’s girlfriend, Laurie, in the King’s Road days. Madam Miaow says … visit Anna’s food blog here: http://annacheneats.blogspot.com/

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Credit Crunch Suicide: poem about the bankers’ crash by Anna Chen

Ten years of austerity since the credit crunch crisis and we’re even worse off while the rich doubled their wealth since 2008 It is ten years since the bankers’ crash went full blown and what have we done? Austerity, Macjobs, disabled payments cuts, a spiteful bedroom tax costing more to administer than is collected, tax

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Who Should We Let In? Anna Chen joins Ian Hislop’s investigation of immigration hysteria in Britain

Anna Chen discusses Victorian and Edwardian-era Yellow Peril fears with Ian Hislop on Who Should We Let In? Thursday 22nd June, 9pm, BBC2 From the sublime to the ridiculous. There was I, having a high old time with Ian Hislop on Who Should We Let In?— the First Great Immigration Row, his grown-up investigation into

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