Anna Chen – Thursday, 15 November 2012 At last it is out. I’ve been champing at the bit, positively having a conniption while all the reviews came out, but finally mine is published and here it is. A quick update: the British East Asian Artists have sprung up to challenge these archaic attitudes towards us […]
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The Opium War by Julia Lovell Review by Anna Chen – 17 May 2012 The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.George Orwell With renewed calls for the West to assert its imperial might in the interest
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In Channel 4’s China: Triumph and Turmoil, Ferguson takes us from 250 BC to the present day and the Chinese “huge potential for venality” with no mention of Jardine Matheson, Western banks and drug money liquidity, Empire, an accelerating number of wars on foreign soil or even the Opium Wars.
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Wing Hong, Hugo and Lucy There’s no business like show business … I had a great time last night onstage with a group of talented Asian actors who’d been brought together at the New Diorama Theatre by director Wing Hong Li. As an exploration of power dynamics and the madness of crowds, The Other Shore,
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Viewed from my sick bed — how apt! — Tom Six’s The Human Centipede was a perfectly good horror tale of power. Two American women and a Japanese tourist find themselves in the clutches of a mad scientist, Teutonic Doctor Heiter (creepy Dieter Laser), in his modern house deep in a German forest, so it
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Takeaway Theatre Royal Stratford East The cast were fab, the energy level of the production was sky-high, but why was all that talent wasted on a heartless non-story about such an unsympathetic character? Takeaway, a musical touted by some as a long-awaited breakthrough for UK Chinese, is a delight in so many ways that it’s
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