Lucy Sheen’s moving documentary, Abandoned Adopted Here, launched at SOAS, 7th April

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Abandoned Adopted Here — SOAS 7 pm.7th April 2016. DLT Lecture theeatre. SOAS. London. WC1H 0XG. The first public screening of the acclaimed documentary – Abandoned Adopted Here by Lucy Sheen. From 50s, 60s Colonial Hong Kong to pre-multicultural UK, a group of Hong Kong foundlings were transracially adopted. Lucy interviewed a few of her […]

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British Born Chinese panel discussion at the LSE: audio

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Kevin and Daniel in British Born Chinese Here’s the audio from last Saturday’s panel discussion at the London School of Economics where I’m talking about British Born Chinese, a documentary by Dr Elena Barabantseva. Speaker(s): Dr Elena Barabantseva, Anna Chen, Andy Lawrence, Dr Véronique Pin-Fat Chair: Professor William Callahan Recorded on 27 February 2016 at Wolfson

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Chris Rock throws Jada, Will and the three Asian kids under the Oscars bus

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Anna Chen discusses Chris Rock Asian joke on BBC World Service Well, Chris Rock REALLY wanted that gig, didn’t he? With the eyes of the world on this year’s Academy Awards ceremony following the ‘Oscars So White’ campaign and boycott, how’s a chap to hold onto his integrity and reputation and still get to play

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Anna Chen and Paul Anderson at the Bookworm Literary Festival in China

Anna May Wong Must Die! in China: Anna Chen’s radio interview on Studio Plus

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Anna Chen interview with Beijing radio, Studio Plus, on Anna May Wong, Hollywood legend and one of the most misunderstood talents back in the Twenties.
“This is what fascinated me about Anna May Wong, Chinese movie star, Hollywood’s first Chinese superstar, the most famous Chinese woman in the world in the 1920s and 30s.”

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Understanding the viciousness of the anti-Corbyn tendency: shades of the Paris Commune

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Jeremy Corbyn, the BBC and the democratic process Why has Jeremy Corbyn’s election as leader of the Labour Party with a massive 59.5 per cent provoked more fury among the centre-left than the predations of the right which still overwhelm us? I’m bewildered by the preoccupation among good friends with diversions that have little to

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