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Only the third blue plaque honoring a Chinese person.

Lao She remains revered as one of China’s great modern writers. His life and work have been the subject of volumes of critique, analysis and study. However, the four years the young aspiring writer spent in London between 1924 and 1929 have largely been overlooked. Dr. Anne Witchard, a specialist in the modernist milieu of London between the wars, reveals Lao She’s encounter

Pedestrians walk past closed restaurants in Chinatown in London, UK, on March 1, 2021 [Jason Alden/Bloomberg via Getty Images] On March 16, a man opened fire in three spa parlours in the US city of Atlanta, killing eight people, including six Asian women. The shootings, the worst mass killing in the United States since 2019, drew long-overdue attention to the rising wave of physical assaults, racial slurs and verbal abuse Asian communities in the country have faced in the past year. Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, and former President Donald Trump and his supporters’ attempts t...