Video interview: Anna Chen & Thomas Karat discuss the collapsing empire's desperate measures to maintain hegemony in the global Three Body Problem: US, Europe & China. Are we headed for world war?| Anna Chen – Renew the spirit, free the mind
The Steampunk Opium Wars, a musical romp through Britain's 18thC narcocapitalism in China, debuted at the Royal National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, London on 16 February 2012.| Anna Chen – Renew the spirit, free the mind
To pay for its tea, silks, spices and porcelain, Britain mass-produced cheap Bengal-grown opium and forced it onto China at gunpoint, turning an aristocratic vice into a nationwide addiction.| Anna Chen – Renew the spirit, free the mind