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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.
Read more...
Jo Ho
Screenwriter and Film Director
Entertainment. Film, TV & Radio. Literature.
Jo is an award-winning film director and screenwriter who was born in Dagenham, Essex.
Jo currently has a fantasy kids TV series which has been commissioned by CBBC. Live action/cgi, the series BO AND THE SPIRIT WORLD is based on Chinese myths and legends, is currently scripting and will be shot in April 2009.
After studying art at the University of Westminster, Jo went on to work in feature films in production on varying roles until she eventually realized her dream was to write and direct.
While she was working in production, she was profiled in CREATION magazine as a 'young, driven and fanatically hardworking woman'.
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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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Christopher CF Chow
Director and Film EditorEntertainment. Film, TV & Radio.
Born in Hong Kong, at the age of 11 Christopher came to study in the UK by himself. After completing his psychology degree, Christopher was not satisfied, and decided to embark on a career which combines his passion in the human psychology and films.
He attended the London Film Academy and received an award for the "Most Enterprising Student of 2005-2006". Many of Christopher's films have been screened in various international festivals, including his directorial debut short film - a suspense thriller - "Purgatory" which received "Commendation" at the Festival of Fantastic Films, in Manchester.
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Ya-Lan Chuang 庄雅兰
Business Executive and Cross Culture Communications ConsultantBusiness. Community. Education. Politics.
Since 1998 Yalan has been working as a professional Mandarin language and cross-cultural communication training manager and consultant to individuals, corporate organisations and governmental bodies in the UK, France, and Asia.
Outside of the training arena, Yalan has also successfully employed her background in business and finance to facilitate multinationals, financial institutions, European Commission on a number of Euro-Sino projects ( approx. €2 million/project), which involved strategy advice on the pre Joint-Venture (JV) due diligence, integration of multicultural teams post JV, high-street fashion branding and marketing penetration in emerging markets.
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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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Nancy Lam
Celebrity ChefCuisine. Film, TV & Radio.
Nancy Lam is a celebrity chef famous for her Oriental food and television appearances.
She was born in Singapore in 1948, the next to youngest as one of 10 children, to an Indonesian Mother and a Chinese Father. Her cooking skills were first nurtured as the result of her Grandmother’s teaching. This proved an excellent foundation as Nancy learned the basics of oriental cooking, a regular chore being the peeling of onions and pounding chillies.
Singapore is a multi-cultural society and Nancy used this to good effect, experimenting with Thai, Indian and other types of cuisine. Her Father owned a prawn cracker manufacturing business. He has the distinction of being the first person to have introduced polystyrene bags to Singapore.
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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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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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Edmond Yeo
CouncillorCommunity. Politics.
Councillor Edmond Yeo is the current Chairperson of the Chinese information and Advice Centre, a post he has held since September 2004. During his time in office, he has initiated a number of new projects; including a capital appeal to raise funds for the purchase of the centres own office premises.
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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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