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Visible Chinese is a guide to individuals at the forefront of the UK's Chinese Culture.
Profiled individuals are included simply because they have contributed to the UK's Chinese Culture.
Visible Chinese aims to become an Authoritative Independent Listing of Achievers within the UK's Chinese Culture.
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Profiled individuals are included simply because they have contributed to the UK's Chinese Culture.
Visible Chinese aims to become an Authoritative Independent Listing of Achievers within the UK's Chinese Culture.
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Sarah Lu
Inventor, Director
Business. Design. Media.
Sarah Lu was born in a refugee camp in Lincolnshire, England in 1980. Her parents were Boat People who escaped from Vietnam in 1979. After graduating with a BA (hons) Graphic Design in 2001 from Buckinghamshire University aged 21, she moved to Brighton where she set up her own Graphic Design company - 'Shortlong Graphics' with the help of funding from the Prince's Trust.
Throughout these years Sarah Lu ran several public houses as franchises to raise more funds for her business ideas. In 2005 Shortlong was sold and Sarah Lu left the U.K. to work as a creative in top advertising agencies, Cunning and Naked, both based in New York, USA.
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Photography by Maria Davis
Jason Chan Wai-Ming
Tai Chi Master / Spiritual TeacherEducation. Literature. Sports.
Jason Chan is a Taoist Tai Chi Master, an inspiring spiritual teacher, and a powerful energy healer. Jason trained in martial arts in Hong Kong where he was born and brought up.
Jason Chan, author of The Radiant Warrior (Hay House 2009) has been teaching Tai Chi, Chi Kung and meditation in the UK and Europe for over 20 years. Jason Chan is also a very well known and popular figure on the British and Irish ‘mind, body spirit scene’. During this time, Jason has inspired and uplifted thousands of people through his enlightening teaching and presence. His aim is to pass on the benefits of vitality, natural health, inner strength and spiritual awakening to all those who train with him. Jason currently runs teacher training courses and personal development courses in the UK and Ireland and retreats in the UK, Europe and Thailand.
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Ping He
Head of Design for London fashion brand AftershockFashion. Design.
Ping He is Head of Design for the top London fashion brand Aftershock, whose celebrity followers include Madonna and Uma Thurman.
Ping was born in central China to a typical Chinese middle class family; she has an artist mother and politician father, both of whom encouraged her artistic endeavours. When she was a teenager, Ping's passion for art drove her to leave high school and join a fine art college to explore her creativity and passion for painting and art. After Ping’s first ever fashion design was collected by the school archive, a fire had been lit for Ping’s passion for fashion!
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Dr Teck Keong Khong
General Medical Practitioner and Forensic Physician, and Parliamentary Candidate of the Conservative PartyCommunity. Politics. Science.
Dr Teck Khong read medicine at Sheffield University and law at Cardiff University. Although his medical practice is in Leicester, Dr Khong also consults at the Out-of-Hours medical centre in Danetre Hospital, Daventry. Additionally, he is a forensic physician for the Northamptonshire Police.
He is a member of the Local Medical Committee, a past-president of the Leicestershire and Rutland Division of the BMA and a past-president of the Leicestershire Medico-Legal Society. Although he has not been selected for the 2010 General Election, he remains an approved parliamentary candidate of the Conservative Party.
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Alice Lee
Actress / Writer / ProducerFilm, TV & Radio.
Alice Lee has been a television, stage and film actress since 2003 and has worked in Australia, Hong Kong, China and the UK. In Hong Kong, she has worked with many distinguished directors such as Tsui Hak and Wong Jing. She appeared in Stephen Fung’s Diary on the leading HK terrestrial broadcaster TVB, co-presented a chat show on Hong Kong Cable TV and interviewed the chef, Martin Yan (Yan Can Cook) for Martin Yan’s Hong Kong which was broadcast globally.
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Stevie Hoang
R&B Producer-ArtistMusic.
Some numbers: 15.5 million plays on Myspace; 1.2 million YouTube views for the ‘video’ for a song (Addicted) that was just a black screen; 65,000 albums sold in Japan; a Number One airplay single in Japan, All Night Long; in the UK, 3000 albums shifted, sold by the artist himself (literally)…
Stevie Hoang – Essex-based 24-year-old DIY R&B producer-artist extraordinaire – has achieved all of the above. Working out of his bedroom, and his own song-spinning imagination, he has already crafted upwards of 50 songs. Via Myspace, YouTube and an entrepreneurial flair that saw him strike international record deals before any UK label had a clue who he was, Hoang has already topped the Myspace chart in the US and released two albums in Japan – where, after repeated trips to Tokyo, he’s a major star on the Japanese charts and club scene.
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Tina Freeth (Chen Mei Xi)
Author / Screenwriter / StorytellerLiterature.
Tina is a 'Chinese Brummie' writer of fiction, creative non-fiction, children's books and short films. She is currently finishing off her studies with the National Academy of Writing based in Birmingham and working on various full length projects including her much anticipated memoir, Chinese Chips (working title).
Tina's most recent publications The Crew: Day of the Dog (2009) and The Crew: Hot or Not? (2009) are published by leading educational publisher Franklin Watts and are part of six reluctant reader titles penned under the pseudonym Sam Carter. Tina's writing can also be found in the anthologies: The Map of Me (2008, Penguin), Finding A Voice (2008, National Academy of Writing/Imprimata) and Original Skin (2007, Birmingham Libraries/Brewin Books).
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George Lee
Parliamentary CandidateBusiness. Community. Politics.
I have a photo of a ramshackle pig shed. It’s a picture of where I was born. Sometimes, searching for other things, I come across it. It’s another world now, so far away it’s like looking the wrong way through a telescope. But it’s where I began.
My parents left rural poverty in Hong Kong for Britain when I was one. My brothers and sisters and I stayed, in the care of a family friend. It was a big change, but not what my parents had hoped. Instead of going to school, we made plastic flowers in a toy factory for the woman they had trusted with our care. I was ten when we joined my parents. I knew one English word when I arrived; ‘tomorrow’.
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Photo courtesy of The Pearl Foundation
Louise Wong
SolicitorCommunity. Law.
Louise was the Winner of The Pearl Award (an annual ceremony held to celebrate UK Chinese achievements) for Most Promising Newcomer in 2006.
As a brief background about me. I was born in England. At 17 years of age I read law at Derby University and graduated with an honours degree in LLB Law with European Studies. Following a Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice at 21 I was a trainee solicitor at Derby Law Centre for 2 years before I fully qualified at 23 to become the youngest solicitor in England and Wales in October 2005, as attested by the Law Society.
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Zoë Baxter
DJ/Radio presenterArts. Culture. Film, TV & Radio. Music.
Zoë started Djing at parties in 2000 and progressed to Internet radio and then community radio. She has always had a keen interest in East Asian cinema and cuisine and this lead her to investigate East Asian music. Now she is a collector of vinyl with a specialist interest in 1960’s ‘Asia Beat’.
In 2005 Zoë presented and produced Ni Hao Chinatown parts 1 & 2 for the London community arts radio station Resonance FM focusing on the Save Chinatown Campaign and the history of Chinese immigration in London.
Following on from this Zoë presented and produced a weekly radio show for Resonance FM called Lucky Cat. With a focus on Chinese and East Asian culture the magazine style programme featured guests, music, film and art reviews and topical issues (e.g. the Takeaway Racism Campaign).
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