STEPHANIE BROWN draws attention to the hidden labour of the female embroiderers, and how a 19th century replica made no such error
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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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MIK SABIERS revels in a band that ploughs an idiosyncratic furrow of expletive laden, guitar-driven alt rock
ANDY HEDGECOCK, MARIA DUARTE and ANGUS REID review Synthetic Sincerity, Our Hero, Balthazar, Heartstopper Forever, and A Year In London
The bard invites readers to a gig, raps for Clacton, and lays out the Burnham-Hurzeler conundrum
RON JACOBS recommends an important book that enhances the oppositional theories put forth by Fanon and, in doing so, remakes psychology itself
JAN WOOLF relishes an extensive history of our long relationship to trees in Britain that underlines the current emergency
DIANE WATT argues that while evidence of sex is not there, a 16th‑century lesbian poet could be Scotland’s answer to Gentleman Jack
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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