May 2023

The Taiping Rebellion: What the British Museum’s Hidden Century exhibition leaves out

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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When Jerry met Anna: Online conversation with China commentator Jerry Grey and guest Anna Chen

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

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A poem for the monarchy revisited on the Coronation of King Charles III: Eating Placenta — Lines on the Royal Birth

A poem fit for a king. Eating Placenta — Lines on the Royal Birth Anna Chen reads Eating Placenta: Lines on the Royal Birth Call me a coronation chicken but I’m sorely tempted to duck out of the Big Event this Saturday. I’m only one of a vast swathe of increasingly disenfranchised, pauperised Brits who

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