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Andy Cheung
Writer and Performer
Arts. Community. Culture. Film, TV & Radio. Literature. Theatre.
Andy is a writer and performer and has worked with celebrated theatre companies such as English National Opera, Yellow Earth Theatre and Twisting Yarn Theatre Company.
Andy’s plays have been staged as rehearsed readings at The Royal Court, Chelsea Centre, The Albany and Soho Theatre. He wrote the show script for The Chinese Stage Circus at the Hackney Empire, and the story for Yellow Earth’s ‘Chinese Two-Step 1925-2005’, a multi-disciplinary performance including drama, music and dance that was performed by the Chinese communities in Trafalgar Square.
Andy’s play ‘Peace Pagoda’, inspired by the monument in London’s Battersea Park, received a special preview at The Linbury, Royal Opera House in 2007.
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Lili Zhao
Editor and publishing director of SL magazineBusiness. Community. Culture. Media.
Lili graduated with first class honours in Financial & Business Economics from Royal Holloway, University of London following her first degree in Media studies in China. Upon graduating, she worked in the financial sector and was a trader with CMC Markets while studying for her Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) qualification.
In 2007, she joined Shanghai Communications Ltd for its new publication SL magazine. It is the UK's first and only bilingual magazine devoted to promoting closer cultural and business exchange between China and the United Kingdom.
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Jih-Wen Yeh
Artistic Director and ProducerArts. Culture. Dance. Education. Entertainment.
Taiwanese-born Jih-Wen Yeh trained in both Chinese and contemporary dance at the Taiwan Junior College and gained her BA (Hons) Dance Theatre at the Laban centre, London in 1993.
Jih-Wen has choreographed and performed professionally in both Chinese and contemporary dance. She had won a choreographic award from the Dance of Black Origin Festival led by the Greenroom Manchester. By March 2001 she had completed her fourth contract with the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London to perform in the production of "Turandot" 2001. She is also working closely with the Chinese Arts Centre as an ongoing workshop leader since 1997. Jih - Wen
was selected and awarded as one of the ten leadership training course in East Scheme in 2007.
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Gigi Wong
Documentary Director & EditorCulture. Entertainment. Film, TV & Radio.
Gigi has produced and directed three European Chinese documentary series for The Chinese Channel (TVBS-E) which featured Christine Lee, David Tse Ka-Shing and many other distinguished European Chinese who are in various industries. The series explores the multi-cultural identities of European Chinese and how their experiences enlighten the next generation.
Gigi is an international producer/editor specialising in documentary film making. Recent projects include 'The Biggest Chinese Restaurant In the World' (BBC - UK) which has been shortlisted in Toronto International Film Festival. 'I Wanna Be Boss' (VPRO - NL) a series on pressures of senior high school students in China. 'Beyond The Game', a documentary about internet gaming in China (VPRO - NL).
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Liu Hong 刘宏
Professor of Chinese StudiesCulture. Education.
Chair of Chinese Studies and Professor of East Asian Studies; Director of Centre for Chinese Studies and Confucius Institute, University of Manchester.
Born in Fujian, Hong Liu was educated in Xiamen and Fudan Universities. He was a lecturer at Xiamen University for two years before he went to the Netherlands and the USA to do research and Ph.D. studies. Upon completing his Ph.D. he was offered a position as an assistant professor at the Department of Chinese Studies, National University of Singapore, where he taught between 1995 and 2006. He was awarded tenure in 2000 and served as the Assistant Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and the Convener of the University’s China Studies Minor Program. He also served as a visiting fellow at Kyoto, Harvard, and Stockholm Universities for a cumulative period of about two years.
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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 one hour radio show for Resonance FM from October 2005 - June 2006 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).
The series included 2 programmes on the Chinese contribution to Reggae music and also a programme featuring a live performance by Korean punk band Crying Nut.
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Eve Lee
Creative DirectorArts. Culture. Fashion. Design. Media.
Eve Lee is a Malaysian born graphic designer and art director who has lived and worked in London for the last seven years.
Following her studies in Malaysia and the US, Eve worked for five years as an art director at advertising agency TBWA in Kuala Lumpur, before coming to London in 2000 to work as a freelance designer and follow the MA design course at Central Saint Martins College.
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Joanna Nim Heung Yeung
Community Learning OfficerArts. Community. Culture. Education. Sports.
At the age of 10, Joanna emigrated from Hong Kong to live in the UK. In 1992, she moved from Lincoln to London, where she was exposed to more of the multicultural life of Britain and became an active member of several local youth clubs, representing the needs and interests of young people from ethnic minority backgrounds.
Since 2000, Joanna has worked in voluntary and organisations and local government building relationships and engaging community groups to take an active role in developing a positive social well being for themselves and others.
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Wah-Yin Rixon
Film examinerArts. Culture. Film, TV & Radio. Politics.
Born in Singapore, Wah-Yin grew up in a family where she is the only one not to be an engineer (apart from her mother, who was an extraordinary cook). In 2006, she embarked on a 5-week odyssey through Guangxi in south China with her daughter, Shan - who was studying Chinese in Kunming - to find their ancestral village (see Shan’s pictures at www.flickr.com/photos/s-h-a-n/sets/). She hopes to do something similar with her son, John, one day. But he is a jazz musician and his schedule, like his music, is unpredictable (www.howardpeacockjazz.com).
Wah-Yin watches over 5 hours of film and TV material every weekday to determine their classification as she is a film examiner at the British Board of Film Classification (www.bbfc.org). Whenever possible, she reads, writes, eats, sees and makes pictures, and dreams up schemes related to arts and culture.
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Yang-May Ooi
Writer, specialising in cross-cultural matters and social mediaArts. Culture. Information Technology.
Yang-May Ooi is a writer, specialising in cross-cultural matters and social media based in London. She has a background in law and has published two legal thrillers The Flame Tree and Mindgame, which have been described as "Amy Tan meets John Grisham".
Her cross-cultural blog Fusion View has around 10,000 unique visitors a month and has been featured on the BBC. She has also worked with businesses and professionals to maximise social media as part of their communications strategy.
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