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How America wrecked Britain and China's Golden Age, video by Anna Chen
How America wrecked Britain and China’s Golden Age, video by Anna Chen, 8 August 2025
Donald Trump's 124% tariffs on China: a Captain Ahab fixation on Moby Dick Video Anna Chen
VIDEO: Donald Trump’s 124% tariffs on China: a Captain Ahab fixation on Moby Dick, 10 April 2025
Anna Chen China's inventions Madam Miaow ResonanceFM radio 2014
Anna Chen: Part 1, China’s inventions Madam Miaow ResonanceFM radio, 2014
Video: Jerry Grey: What's going on in UK and China? Anna Chen comes back for another great discussion, 5 December 2024
Jerry Grey: What’s going on in UK and China? Anna Chen comes back for another great discussion, 5 December 2024
Anna Chen Empire Watch video discussion 11 November 2024
Trump’s Tariffs Escalating the US New Cold War on China with Anna Chen, 11 November 2024
Video Anna Chen, Part 1, I caught Covid Again
VIDEO: Part 1, I Caught Covid Again, Anna Chen, 11 October 2024
Anna Chen Jerry Grey online April 2024
Jerry Grey meets Anna Chen 2: Finally Another meeting with the Great Anna Chen, 26 April 2024
CHAT: When Jerry Met Anna — 7 May 2023. Talking about everything from the war on China to growing up in the UK.
CHAT: When Jerry Met Anna — 7 May 2023. Talking about everything from the war on China to growing up in the UK.
Anna Chen poet - Farrago Poetry Slam 2012
POETRY: Poe, Daddy Freud, Ode to a Detox on returning from St Ives – Farrago Poetry Slam
Video poetry I am Rich and you are poor - Anna Chen
POETRY: I Am Rich and You Are Poor: lines on dead Chinese workers and their rich benefactors, 2013
Boomers - poetry by Anna Chen, 13 July 2024. Chi Chi's Glorious Swansong.
Boomers – poetry by Anna Chen, 13 July 2024. Chi Chi’s Glorious Swansong
POETRY: Eating Placenta, Lines on the Royal Birth — August 2022 Anna Chen
POETRY: Eating Placenta, Lines on the Royal Birth — August 2022
POETRY: Daddy Freud and To Adonis at his Toilet, St Ives May 2008
POETRY: 2B OR NOT 2B — April 2023
POETRY: Burger, 2013
POETRY: Yellow face is the practice, like blackface, where white actors play east Asian acting roles, depriving ethnic actors of jobs and east Asians of representations of themselves in film, theatre and television. July 2013
POETRY: Credit Crunch Suicide, July 2013
POETRY: Anna reads Chi Chi’s Glorious Swansong at the Oxford and Cambridge Club in London, 2014.
POETRY: Anna Chen’s first public reading of “Margaret Thatcher Died at the Ritz”, written on the day news broke that the former prime minister had died … at the Ritz! Socialist poetry performed at the Morning Star May Day celebrations in Kilburn, 2013.
POETRY: Kicking a Dinosaur at the St Ives Café for the St Ives Festival, Cornwall, September 2011
POETRY: Anna Chen reads her poem, Big Society: On a conversation in the Foundling Museum. Café Art, St Ives Festival 15th September 2011
POETRY: Anna Chen performs Anna May Wong Must Die!, May 2009
POLITICS: The View From Here — August 2022

INTERVIEW by CGTN 22 March 2023 (above)

POLITICS: Anna Chen speaks on the subject of the Internet and the Modern Self at the Frontline Club at The Orwell Prize launch, 2014.
POLITICS: Anna Chen’s talk, A Short 21st Century Timeline of the Race to World War III, for No Cold War, 25 May 2022.

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VIDEO: Anna Chen on BBC World TV on the OPENING DAY and the FINAL DAY of the Copenhagen climate change summit, COP15 2009

Anna Chen author, writer, poet and broadcaster
Anna Chen — Writer, presenter and broadcaster: BBC and Guardian before the pivot to China; ResonanceFM. Asia Times, New Internationalist, South China Morning Post. TED speaker, Orwell Prize shortlisted, cultural outrider.
Anna Chen video gallery of poetry performance
Anna Chen Reaching for my Gnu poetry book
Anna Chen’s first collection of poetry, Reaching for my Gnu (published by Aaaargh! Press)
Anna Chen Poetry Chi Chi's Glorious Swansong
Anna’s second poetry collection, Chi Chi’s Glorious Swansong
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