I so want to do this journey. Two Dutchmen, Maren Striker and Rogier Bikker, are driving the Silk Road route from Shanghai to Rotterdam using nothing but Chinese brand goods. One car, three months, eleven countries, 20,000 miles and a lot of sponsorship from July 26th to October 31st. The car, the phone, even their […]
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The biggest lawsuit ever, TTIP legislation and vulture capitalists. Anton Purisma, the man suing New York City for more money than there is in the world, has just taken out an action suing Ed Snowden and the entire population of China for the rest of the money that doesn’t exist in the entire known universe.
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The Chinese in Britain Forum 1st August 2014 Steve Lau writes: Ensuring We Remember the men of the Chinese Labour Corps Britain recruited 96,000 Chinese workers during the First World War who worked on everything from road building to recovering the dead. After the war the contribution of these men was simply forgotten, and none
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I hope to be reviewing this. The publisher writes: SelfMadeHero are delighted to announce the UK release of RICKY ROUSE HAS A GUN, an action-packed comical satire on US-China cultural relations, written by London-based Jörg Tittel and illustrated by John Haggs. The book is published in paperback on 5th September, rrp £14.99 Madam Miaow says
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THE “OPERA FOR CHINATOWN” ART INSTALLATION, ON LIVERPOOL’S DUKE STREET, FEATURES PHOTOS OF THE OLD BOARDING HOUSE’S LONG FORGOTTEN RESIDENTS. My City Scope column for the South China Morning Post magazine 20th July 2014. City scope: Windows to the past Anna Chen in Liverpool Liverpool, home to the oldest Chinese community in Europe, is hosting
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Political satire in poetry still knocking around. Ian Hislop throws down the gauntlet in The Verse That Stings, his BBC Rado 4 programme on a literary hero of mine, Alexander Pope. (Yes, we did read him in Hackney.) The Private Eye editor and Armando Iannucci bemoan the lack of satirical poetry, so I’m getting mine
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