Anna May Wong Must Die! but the dynamic lives on on in the western response to the rise of China. Yellow Peril tropes abound as China overtakes the declining West, sending the usurped superpower into a frenzy.
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US journalist Chris Hedges’ interview with Kenneth Roth perpetuates Empire narratives demonising China, the rising superpower. China got up off its knees and is thriving. The West could have been part of that, as demonstrated in their 2008 bailout. So why is it once more choosing conflict like a Beserker throwback?
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In the half-century since Bruce Lee’s early death in July 1973, the image of Chinese in western culture and business has come full circle with an added twist of spite.
Prior to the martial arts deity’s explosion onto cinema screens in the 1960s, Chinese men were barely seen except as anonymous hordes reminiscent of the wave warfare that kept America at bay in Korea. Their ultimate sacrifice was presented in the west as an antlike lack of humanity rather than the collective courage we recognise from the allied storming of Normandy beaches.
Is whitewashed Doctor Strange about to morph into Dr Strangelove or be eclipsed by Fu Manchu redux?
Anna Chen’s debut piece in the Asia Times
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After a year of increasing anti-Asian violence encouraged by unscrupulous politicians and media, we took another lurch to the dark side when eight people were killed in the Atlanta shootings (16th March 2021), six of them Asian women. Elsewhere, Asian people are being regularly maimed and murdered.
STANDING UP TO SINOPHOBIA: From Fu Manchu to Bat Soup Online event hosted by The Society for Anglo-Chinese Understanding (SACU) 6th April 2021 Contribution by Anna Chen HOW RACISM HAS ITS ROOTS IN POLITICS So here we are in April 2021 as America’s anti-Chinese pogrom goes full blown. We’re seeing almost daily attacks on Asian
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I just appeared on BBC Radio 4’s Overwhelming China, presented by Philip Dodd and produced by Simon Hollis of Brook Lapping. What a wonderful intelligent take-down of the all-pervasive sinophobia for a change. It’s like a grown-up walked into a playground full of preening bullies. Programme contributors included Daniel York, Ben Chu, Dr Ann Witchard,
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