China begins three days of mourning a week after it’s worst natural tragedy since the last major earthquake thirty years ago. Following the debacle in Burma where the authorities, usually so quick to crack down on dissent, are criminally slow to react to the estimated 100,000 deaths from the cyclone, the Chinese rescue effort has […]
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Picture: The first documented Chinese in Britain, Shen Fu Tsong, a Jesuit convert who translated the Chinese books at the Bodleian Library in the 17th Century and whose portrait hung in the bedchamber of King James II The first of the two omnibus repeats of my series, Chinese In Britain, went out last night on
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Who’d have thought a dozen oysters and half a bottle of cava could have such devastating consequences? Either that or the clotted cream, the sun or the pasties (the Cornish kind you eat, not the ones you twirl, silly!). Since Wednesday’s molluscular treat this writer has been tethered to the, ahem, “facilities” by the state
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Madam Miaow — AKA Anna Chen — reads from her autobiography, The Chop House, 8pm this Sunday 11th May at the Salthouse Gallery, St Ives, as part of the St Ives Literature Festival. “Right now I’m trying to finish The Chop House, an autobiography about my upbringing by Chinese communists in Hackney from the Swinging
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Penn & Teller, experts in revealing how magic tricks are done, take on the Dalai Lama in their own inimitable style. Iconoclasm school: module 101. See also Madam Miaow on Tibet or not Tibet: Shangrila-la land Madam Miaow says … visit Anna Chen’s website here: Home Anna’s food blog here: http://annacheneats.blogspot.com/
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EXCLUSIVE TO MADAM MIAOW SAYS — KEEF ENCOUNTERS It’s 1975. The Stones have just released a fairly disappointing album, Black And Blue, and in my capacity as frontline hatchetman for the New Musical Express, I pen a feature-length review making this case at great length. Bearing in mind Mick Jagger’s dictum that he doesn’t care
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