Tomorrow’s (tonight, Tuesday) exciting launch programme of my new Resonance FM radio series is a yellow peril fest of all things colonialist. “Oh Other where art thou?” features my guest Daniel York talking about the momentous WTF! moment when east Asians around the world realised that only a miserly three out of 17 characters in […]
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So George Osborne finally concedes defeat over the extra visa required for visitors to Britain on top of the EU visa covering 26 countries.No longer will rich Chinese have to jump through immigration hoops, but poorer Chinese migrant workers will in a two-tier travel trap that signals another nail hammered into prospects of a fair
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Out, damn laptop! Up until the wee small hours, news and Scrabble devouring my precious downtime. I am seriously thinking about installing one of those programmes as favoured by Zadie Smith to help her write her books. I knew one day someone would copyright “freedom” just as I know someone one day will find a
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“She’s over there …” Tuesday sees the launch of my Resonance FM series with “Oh Other, where art thou?”, discussing yellowface, blackface and east Asians in the kulcher. My guests include Daniel York (The Fu Manchu Complex) and his band Wondermare, actress Siu-see Hung, Dr Diana Yeh and Ben Chu of the Independent who’s just
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I’d already expressed my delight in seeing Daniel York’s lively satire, The Fu Manchu Complex, at the Oval House Theatre last week, but a rash of resentful mainstream reviews prompts me to expand on my response. In particular, the Guardian’s theatre reviewer Maddy Costa seemed completely out of her depth, writing a stunningly superficial piece
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MADAM MAO’S GOLDEN OLDIESREPEATED 26TH OCTOBER 2013, FIRST BROADCAST 17TH JULY 2012BBC Radio 4 at 3.30pm, Saturday 26th October 2013Presented and co-written by Anna ChenProduced by Mukti Jain Campion for Culture Wise In Madam Mao’s Golden Oldies, I revisit the Chinese Cultural Revolution Model Operas that I first heard as a child in the 1960s
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