"Watching Spirit Warriors is like finally meeting a friend who's ten years late for a party - you're disappointed it's taken so long but once here you can't help smiling."  Suzie Wong reviews new British Chinese fantasy drama Spirit Warriors and finds out how the Chinese afterlife compares in a teen market awash with the supernatural and saving-the-world motifs.

Conservative MP Candidate George Lee gives us his take on the UK's recent dealings with China and asks how the UK can hope to expect drug clemency over an issue that has created deep-rooted resentment since the Opium Wars,

Guest contributors Lia Liang and James Yeatman review the Yellow Earth Theatre's autumn double bill Boom and wAve.  

Does having a funny Chinese name lead to a life of torment and suffering?

Ping-Ping Wong shares her experiences.

Suzie Wong comes clean about her food obsessions, being stranded in teen purgatory in Devon and that dreaded F word which no good Chinese daughter can escape.

A reversal of feminist values as Asian high-flyers reach for the ultimate beauty title to adorn their achievements. Suzie Wong turns investigative reporter and covers the Miss China UK 2009 auditions in the search for this year’s beauty queen and wonders if a combination of brains and beauty heralds the entrance of the ultimate Asian female high-achiever.

Madonna, leather chaps and the art of expressing yourself – Suzie Wong finds the seeds of rebellion planted from an early age.

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Anna Chen reviews the recent production of More Light at Arcola Theatre, written by Bryony Lavery and directed by Catrina Lear.

A stunningly beautiful martial arts fantasy that will delight Wuxia fans. Sheila Cornelius reviews Chen Kaige’s The Promise, which was recently released on DVD.