With a slew of friends passing 60 and collecting their free bus passes, this was one thing I looked forward to in old age when my teeth are lost due to prohibitively expensive dental treatment and all my lovers are dust. I might have known it wouldn’t be around by the time I was old […]
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Anna Chen – 9 October 2009 The West divides Asian women into dangerous Dragon Ladies and passive Lotus Blossoms, the deep, collective psychological template for a feminised China, and codifies it across the culture, in this instance in opera. Giacomo Puccini creates the submissive, tragic, Cho Cho San in his 1904 opera of David Belasco’s
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So much for breeding and nobility. In a case that makes the Astors look like the Corleones, Anthony Marshall, the dastardly stepson of David Astor, has been found guilty of trying to steal millions from his mother, socialite Booke Astor, while she was gaga. The Astors, who founded The Observer, made their money from fur
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Well, we won. I and my charming co-speaker Grace Wang did the biz at last night’s Confucius debate at Bloomsbury’s Ah King restaurant. Chaired by Peng Wenlan of the Meridian Society, it was an enjoyable evening for some sixty plus with good food and conversation only hampered by a dodgy microphone. Jenny and Laurence who
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Curious how the significant places of one’s childhood that once seemed vast appear so much smaller when you visit them years later. Last night (Monday 5th October), the Hammersmith’s Apollo looked minuscule compared with the days when it was called the Odeon and I queued all night to get front row tickets for David Bowie
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Looks like I’m speaking at this on Wednesday. Here’s hoping the good dinner and drink don’t make me too sleepy to crackle like a spitfire. Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. Or is it dance like a hefferlump, sting like a tree? The Meridian Society Dinner-DebateDate: Wednesday, 7th October 2009Time: 7.30pmVenue: Ah King Restaurant,
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