Anna Chen – 24 June 2017, Chinese diaspora Anna Chen discusses Victorian and Edwardian-era Yellow Peril fears with Ian Hislop on Who Should We Let In? Thursday 22nd June, 9pm, BBC2 From the sublime to the ridiculous. There was I, having a high old time with Ian Hislop on Who Should We Let In?— the […]
I Am Rich and You Are Poor: lines on dead Chinese workers and their rich benefactors by Anna Chen In support of today’s One Day Without Us day of action in the UK, I’m posting my poetry on the subject throughout the day. I Am Rich and You Are Poor Lines on dead Chinese workers
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My TEDxEastEnd talk has just been posted on You Tube. Genetic science has definitively proved that all humans originate from the same group of East African ancestors. So why do people insist on trying to create divisions between races or nationalities? Anna Chen suggests this is more than instinctive racism – there are economic interests
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I had a great time last Saturday as one of the speakers at the TED x East End event. I talked about migration and diversity, mirrors and diversion, looking at how politics and economics distort the history of human migration since we all walked out of Africa 60,000 to 120,000 years ago. A banker, a
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