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.

Sisters: poem from the Fabulous Ninja Gurl about feminism and politics as sleight of hand

Put the blame on BAME, why don’tcha? Yelling that you stand up against social injustice does not mean that you do. One of the things that has shocked me the most about my time in the left is how various characters can say and write one thing, and then do the exact opposite, like words […]

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Chinese Britons could swing the general election vote in some constituencies

Sonny Leong and Ed Miliband As the British local and European elections heave into view, watched closely for how likely the 2015 general election is to yield victory for feudal baron David Cameron or milquetoast Ed Miliband, here’s my South China Morning Post column from last year in which the Chair of Chinese for Labour

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Calling all writers: catch the Early Bird price on Charles Shaar Murray’s Hothouse writing course, London 29 May

Only a few more days of the Early Bird price on Charles Shaar Murray’s essential Hothouse writing course in leafy West Hampstead. Learn from the mahstah! Legendary writer Charles Shaar Murray teaches his essential “Journalism as Craft and Art” writing masterclasses in north London.  He shares rigorous, hard-headed journalistic craft to bring literary quality into even

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Yellow Face by David Henry Hwang opens tonight National Theatre Shed for 3 weeks

Anna Chen – 5 May 2014 Gemma Chan and David Yip in Yellow Face, opening at the National Theatre Shed tonight. Here’s wishing that the cast of Yellow Face, by Tony-Award winner David Henry Hwang, break a leg in style when they open tonight at the National Theatre Shed. I thoroughly enjoyed the play when it

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Surfing the current wave of horrors: still trapped in that comatose science fiction writer’s fever-dream

It’s been a nightmare couple of months. Events that seem to confirm we are in fact trapped inside the dystopian fever-dream of a comatose science fiction writer are coming at us in an intensifying wave of horror. I’m marking this current wave from the disappearance of Malaysian Flight MH370 on 8th March with 239 passengers

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Class War comes to Penge: Ian Bone standing in Lewisham in the general election

Looking forward to seeing Class War liven up the general election. “Because all the other candidates are SCUM!” With very few exceptions, I’d say they were cutting with the overall mood. If you don’t like the sentiment, then make sure your candidate does their job, represents their constituency, protects the rights of their voters rather

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