Anna Chen presented her groundbreaking radio series on China’s scientific and cultural inventions for Resonance FM in 2014.
While Boris Johnson was insisting Chinese can’t innovate, Anna took audiences on a journey from China’s world firsts to European domination and the Opium Wars.
Replayed here in the week of the Shenzhou 18 & 19 handover on the Tiangong Space Station.
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Anna Chen – 13 September 2023, China and spying A shorter version of this piece appeared as a Guardian comment in response to the Editorial: The Guardian view on China and spying: we need less heat and more light, 13 September 2023 Despite lurid claims by the Guardian about China and spying, no charges have
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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
No Cold War kindly invited me to speak at their online event on 6th October but sound problems rendered my contribution pretty unlistenable — apologies. I am posting the text of my speech here and will try to re-record soon it along with a poem. A PERMANENT RESERVOIR OF SCAPEGOATS: HOW RACISM DRIVES THE GEOPOLITICS
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No Cold War Online launch, 16th June 2021: Return of the Opium Wars Text of Anna Chen’s speech: Opium Wars 2 Tonight, I’m going to discuss the current build-up in hostility towards China in the context of the Opium Wars of the 19th century and the propaganda war leading us there once again. At the
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