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.

Copper Comes A Cropper: a poem featuring Cressida Dick

It’s hard to believe that Cressida Dick, the woman at the head of the London Metropolitan Police operation that killed Jean Charles de Menezes, an innocent electrician, on the London tube in 2005 and terrified a whole lot of bystanders, is now running the police force. Whatever happened to holding power to account? The shooting […]

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Poetry on One Day Without Us: Yellowface #1DayWithoutUs

In support of today’s One Day Without Us day of action in the UK, I’m posting my poetry on the subject throughout the day. With Charles Shaar Murray and Buffalo Bill Smith, St Ives festival 2009 Yellowface I’m Yellowface Gonna eat your soul I’m Yellowface I’m Yellowface Gonna swallow you whole I’m Yellowface Make you

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Chinese British support UK One Day Without Us day of action

The cast of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of Snow In Midsummer in rehearsal holding One Day Without Us placards. From left to right: Katie Leung, Andrew Koji, Lucy Sheen, Wendy Kweh, Andrew Leung, Jonathan Ragget, Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig, Daniel York, director Justin Audibert, Richard Rees, Kevin Shen. At the front in the red jacket is

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President Trump to personally handle UK trade deal despite his nightmare record in business: Theresa May rolls over

President Trump has told Theresa May that he will personally negotiate the trade deal with the UK. He has no commerce secretary yet. Many of us are wondering what could possibly go wrong? Estimates that the Trump chicken comes home to roost (in the Chinese year of the Fire Rooster, note) are set somewhere around

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Hedge fund theatre in Howard Barker yellowface protest: The Print Room 5pm Thursday 19th January

Anna Chen – 18 January 2017 East Asians, theatre practitioners, academics and friends protest against Yellowface casting in Howard Barker play, In the Depths of Dead Love, at the Print Room 19th January 2017 This Thursday (19th January) sees a peaceful protest of Chinese, East Asians, theatre practitioners, academics and friends at the Print Room

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