Question for the Act for Change Conference: are the political dangers in keeping East Asian British minority invisible fully understood?

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Hackney-born Chinese British punk Anna Chen kicks up. Pic by Bob Carlos Clarke Act For Change Conference, Young Vic Theatre 30th June 2014 Chair: Shami Chakrabarti Panel: Julie Crampsie, BBC casting director; Steve November, Head Of ITV programming; writer Stephen Poliakoff; film producer Allison Owen; and Ewan Marshall, former artistic director of Graeae Theatre Company. […]

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Anna Chen’s Chinese Diaspora talk and poetry reading at Liverpool’s International Festival of Business China Day

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A reminder about Liverpool tomorrow. I’m looking forward to giving my China Diaspora in Britain talk plus a poetry reading from Reaching for my Gnu at the Il Forno Restaurant in Duke Street, Liverpool, tomorrow at 4pm. My dad lived in Liverpool from the 1920s before he moved to London. It’s the International Festival of

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British East Asian FAQs for BBC, casting directors and media

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Intrepid tweeting British East Asian (BEA) Bess Chan (AKA Katherine Chan) wrote to me attaching a letter she’d received from BBC about lack of BEA representation on the airwaves. She and her friends had been wondering why it was that American East Asians (Asian Americans) are seen as American, whereas BEAs (East Asian Brits) are

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Higher wages won in Seattle supported by electorate: Ed Miliband should watch this

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Workers across America are winning a living wage. Halfway decent minimum wages work … certainly better than what we currently have. An important principle is grasped in America and is spreading. Let’s hope the same happens here. Ed Miliband should remember this when the Labour right are pressing him to emulate Ukip. Will Hutton writes

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