Author name: Anna Chen

UK writer and broadcaster Anna Chen challenges stale empire narratives with original insights and a dash of wit. A politically informed artist, poet and pioneering China commentator, she has led successful strategies to raise consciousness and run over dogma with her karma. Cultural breakthroughs include: UK’s First Chinese Punk, First To Take A Show To The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Published Poet At 14, Orwell Prize Shortlisted, TED Speaker, BBC Writer And Presenter, Dissenting Journalist, Critical Thinker And Political Analyst. A lifetime of political analysis & cultural response in published articles, radio, videos, blog and poetry.

BBC serialisation of Daughters of the Bamboo Grove anti China propaganda

BBC Soft Power and Daughters of the Bamboo Grove

With soft power ripping off its velvet glove and ruling the cultural sphere with an iron fist, the BBC is doggedly determined to keep China’s image in the dark. The white saviours are back. This week’s BBC Radio 4 serialisation of the newly published book, Daughters of the Bamboo Grove, bludgeons the audience’s perception of the rising superpower into shape by placing it in a dark past. 

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Neil Hornick as Captain Ironside in The Steampunk Opium Wars, premiered at the Royal National Maritime Museum, Greenwich in 2012

Neil Hornick, Phantom Captain of the counter-culture, dies at 85

Neil Hornick, a pioneer of 1960s counter-culture and alternative theatre, left the stage at the weekend aged 85. Old-school generous, creative and always on the look-out for non-conforming artistry, he was a part of the most creative generation in Britain’s history. In memoriam by friend and artistic collaborator, Anna Chen

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