PETER MONAGHAN highly recommends an exhibition of work that highlights the plight of female precarious workers.
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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EWAN KOTZ praises a lovingly produced, if bleak offering from the post-punk Brooklyn quartet
CHRIS SEARLE welcomes a new book that makes working class history come alive in a true story of human flesh and aspiration
GORDON PARSONS is intrigued by a contemporary update of a problem play that raises more questions than it answers
New releases from Alice Di Micele, Tim Grimm, and Tereza Catarov
MARY CONWAY is frustrated by the stylistic muddle that arises when you apply a pub theatre sensibility to a towering Greek tragedy
ALAN McGUIRE welcomes a biography of the French semiologist and philosopher
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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