Literature
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Jason Chan Wai-Ming
Tai Chi Master / Spiritual Teacher
Education. 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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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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Jeremy Tiang 程异
Actor, writerArts. Film, TV & Radio. Literature. Theatre.
Jeremy is originally from Singapore, and is equally fluent in Mandarin and English. After reading English Literature at Oxford, he trained as an actor at Drama Centre London.
Performance credits include Peace Pagoda (Royal Opera House), The First Emperor (British Museum/ Yellow Earth Theatre), Jingo (Finborough), Ex Humare (King's Head Theatre), Hounslow West (Theatre503), Men of Monsters (Hen & Chickens), Rendition Monologues, The Illegals, Seven Years With Hard Labour (iceandfire), A Singapore Carol (Singapore Repertory Theatre), 8.3 Minutes (short film, opposite Colin Salmon), The Madness of the Dance (short film, opposite Maxine Peake), and the Bollywood film Show Man. Jeremy has also taken part in rehearsed readings for the Royal Court, Soho Theatre and King's Head Theatre.
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Jo Ho
Screenwriter and Film DirectorEntertainment. Film, TV & Radio. Literature.
Jo Ho is a British born Chinese screenwriter and director, and the creator of the new BBC series "SPIRIT WARRIORS" (previously known as "BO AND THE SPIRIT WORLD"), which begins airing mid January 2010 on CBBC, BBC 1 and BBC HD.
Mixing live-action martial arts fantasy with CGI characters and the latest HD digital technology, Spirit Warriors promises to deliver a visual spectacle the whole family can enjoy. Loosely inspired by Chinese myths and legends, and stars a young Chinese girl and her sister, who along with their friends, enter into a mythical Spirit World in order to save the universe from the evil warlord Li and his army of shadowlike warriors.
SPIRIT WARRIORS will be the first TV drama series made in the UK that stars a predominately East Asian Cast.
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Fuchsia Dunlop 扶霞 (Fu Xia)
Food-writer and cook specialising in Chinese cuisineArts. Culture. Cuisine. Education. Film, TV & Radio. Literature. Media.
Fuchsia Dunlop is an internationally renowned cook and food-writer specialising in Chinese cuisine. She was the first Westerner to train as a chef at the Sichuan Institute of Higher Cuisine, and has been researching Chinese food and culinary culture since 1994.
She writes about Chinese food and cookery for publications including the Financial Times, The New Yorker, The Observer, the New York Times, Gourmet, Saveur and Time Out, and has been featured as an expert commentator on radio and TV stations all over the world.
She also appears on television as a Chinese cook and food expert. She speaks, reads and writes Chinese.
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Nicky Harman
Translator and TeacherEducation. Literature.
Nicky Harman is a translator from Chinese, and also teaches translation at Imperial College London.
She has written for the Guardian, and is actively involved in the Chinese-English literary translation website, Paper Republic. Paper Republic has received an Arts Council England grant to promote Chinese literature-in-translation and will be organising cultural events in the UK in 2009.
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Hsiao-Hung Pai
Freelance Journalist and WriterLiterature.
Ms Hsiao-Hung Pai was born in Taiwan and came to Britain in 1991. She holds masters' degrees from the University of Wales (Critical & Cultural Theory), University of Durham (East Asian politics and history) and the University of Westminster (Journalism).
Hsiao-Hung Pai works as a freelance journalist, writing for the Guardian and many UK-Chinese publications. She covered the Morecambe Bay cockle-picking tragedy for the Guardian.
In order to understand the plight of other Chinese migrants, she went undercover and is the only journalist working in Britain who has truly penetrated the world of undocumented Chinese migrants.
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Andy Cheung
Writer and PerformerArts. 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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Ma Jian
WriterLiterature.
Ma Jian was born in Qingdao, China, in 1953. After working as a photojournalist for a state-run magazine, he left China for Hong Kong in 1987 after a clampdown in which some his works were banned, but continued to return to China, notably to support the pro-democracy activist in Tiananmen Square in 1989. In 1997, he moved to Germany, and in 1999 he again moved to England.
He is the author of Red Dust, winner of the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award; The Noodle Maker, a novel; and Stick Out Your Tongue, stories about Tibet that prompted the Chinese government to ban Ma Jian’s work, and that set him on the road to exile. He is also the author of Beijing Coma, released in 2008.
He now lives in London with his partner and translator, Flora Drew.
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Gregor Benton 班国瑞
Professor of Chinese HistoryEducation. Literature.
Gregor Benton, who graduated in Oriental Studies from Cambridge in 1968, is Professor of Chinese History at Cardiff. Before that, he was Associate Professor in the Centre for Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Amsterdam (1979-89) and Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Leeds (1989-99).
He has published books on Marxism, political humour, the history of the Chinese Communist Party, Red guerrillas in China in the 1930s, the Sino-Japanese War, dissent in China, Chinese Trotskyism, Hong Kong, the theory of moral economy, and overseas Chinese.
His Mountain Fires: The Red Army’s Three-Year War in South China, 1934-1938 (Berkeley 1992) won several awards, including the Association of Asian Studies’ prize for the best book on modern China.
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