RITA DI SANTO draws attention to a new film that features Ken Loach and Jeremy Corbyn, and their personal experience of media misrepresentation
Light on new world order rising in the East
A new pamphlet outlines the positive impact China's economic and political ascendancy could have globally — and for Britain, says JENNY CLEGG
The Shanghai skyline
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JULIA TOPPIN recommends Patti Smith’s eloquent memoir that wrestles with the beauty and sorrow of a lifetime
MARJORIE MAYO welcomes an account of family life after Oscar Wilde, a cathartic exercise, written by his grandson
KEN COCKBURN guides us through a survey of Chekov’s early short fiction, and the groundwork it laid for his later masterpieces
ANDY HEDGECOCK revels in a hugely enjoyable but deadly serious examination of the 1930s, that is an indictment of our own era
The bard distills our hellish times into fiery words
China’s New Era and What It Means
by Kenny Coyle
(CPB, £2)
JUST over a decade ago, China and Britain were roughly equal in economic size, but today, barely noticed, the Asian nation has grown four times larger. In the next seven to 10 years, it will likely overtake the US.
China's President Xi Jinping is already challenging Trump in a battle of ideas and advancing the notion of a world community with a shared future. It gives globalisation a new meaning and opposes the neocon view of divisive power politics.
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