TIME TO PUT AN END to the empathy and dynamic culture destroying idea of CULTURAL APPROPRIATION ?
I’m delighted that more people are voicing their opposition to this insidious idea. Brushstrokes in Time was made into an audio book by an adventurous young company called Essential Audiobooks. The actress who read it was of mixed ancestry like my children. Do they have to choose between one culture and another? Sales waned when Brushstrokes in Time was criticised because the writer is English! A Chinese writer will risk their freedom if they write chapters like mine on the birth of the Democracy Movement and events of 1989. My novel is endorsed by China experts and the editor of the prestigious Indian online paper The Madras Courier.
Writers like me, who want to tackle tough subjects, can be thwarted by an authoritarian government that censors my material and a liberal West who won’t let me tell the story of the courageous Stars artists because I am not of the correct ethnicity. It is based on five years of interviews and research and has wonderful endorsements including
For me, it has to be among my top ten historical novels, certainly of this century. Utterly mesmerising and unforgettable: Dr Jenny Lewis, Internationally renowned poet.
I could not put this page-turner down. As I reached the end just one thought dominated: everyone should read this book. No one I’ve ever come across has managed to tell the story of modern Chinese politics, arts and society in such accessible, imaginative and compelling a fashion. Ray Foulk Founder of the Isle of Wight Festival & author of Stealing Dylan from Woodstock.
Add to these Voices?
https://www.the-tls.co.uk/…/art-for-all-cultural-appropria…/
See also the Reith Lectures: Mistaken Identities, Kwame Anthony Appiah (particularly 3 and 4, on Colour and Culture):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00729d9/episodes/player
Cultural Appropriation is a Toxic Concept, Farah Shah:
https://extranewsfeed.com/cultural-appropriation-is-a…
http://www.filmsforaction.org/…/cultural-appropriation-who…/