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.

Suzy Wrong Human Cannon Anna Chen

Suzy Wrong at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival – 30th anniversary

Anna Chen – 11 August 2024, Suzy Wrong Stereotype Slayer hits Edinburgh Fringe Festival Thirty years ago today, I took my show, Suzy Wrong Human Cannon, to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, a historic first by a Chinese Brit. It was a ground-breaking challenge thrown down to the degrading stereotypes embedded deeply in western culture, and […]

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Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu Tencent series review by Anna Chen

Three Body Problem review: the politics of novel, Netflix and Tencent

How did the Three Body Problem work as a book, a Netflix series and a Chinese Tencent series? That’s a Three Body Problem in itself.
Netflix’s eight-part series 3 Body Problem had the opportunity to dramatise Book One of the Hugo Award-winning blockbuster series and illuminate it through a western lens. Instead, they turned it into a banal addition to the multiple-body of China-hate currently pervading every nook and cranny of the culture 

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