Anna Chen – 3 September 2023 COVID IN THE UK 2023: Here’s the state of Covid in Britain as we head into winter with rising numbers of cases. A new variant, BA.2.86, we know little about. Is it dangerous? Meh, who knows, who cares? No free testing. Buy your own, £2 a pop or £50 […]
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In the half-century since Bruce Lee’s early death in July 1973, the image of Chinese in western culture and business has come full circle with an added twist of spite.
Prior to the martial arts deity’s explosion onto cinema screens in the 1960s, Chinese men were barely seen except as anonymous hordes reminiscent of the wave warfare that kept America at bay in Korea. Their ultimate sacrifice was presented in the west as an antlike lack of humanity rather than the collective courage we recognise from the allied storming of Normandy beaches.
Is whitewashed Doctor Strange about to morph into Dr Strangelove or be eclipsed by Fu Manchu redux?
Anna Chen’s debut piece in the Asia Times
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Anna Chen – 3 August 2023, Asian youth The anti-China pogrom is having the required effect in the United States, providing a dumping ground for an imploding society’s fears in the form of its Asian youth. The feral elite can gauge its success in turning its successful rival into a diversion and scapegoat for its
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Anna Chen – 31 July 2023, Julian Assange Julian Assange punished for informing the public There’s something monumental and mythical about the Promethean figure of Julian Assange having his liver pecked out every day by the US eagle for taking information from the self-styled gods and giving it to us humans. In Graeco-Roman mythology, Prometheus
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Anna Chen – 17 May 2023, Taiping rebellion What the Guardian’s review of the British Museum’s Hidden Century exhibition doesn’t tell you about the Taiping Rebellion The Guardian’s review of the British Museum’s Hidden Century exhibition continues the 19th-century mindset rationalising British imperialism in China past and present while omitting the driving force behind the
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By Anna Chen / 11/05/2023 VIDEO CHAT WITH JERRY GREY. Last Sunday, I was an online guest of Jerry Grey, the British-born China commentator who caught our attention with accounts of his marathon bicycle trips around China, including Xinjiang, China’s Belt And Road back door which leads across the Eurasian continent as far as Barking in the far
