Visible Chinese

Lucy Sheen Chau Lai-Tuen

2009-06-14T16:18:00+00:00

Lucy Sheen was born in Hong Kong, orphaned and then adopted by an English family. She was flown over to the UK in the late fifties early sixties. Lucy trained at The Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama graduated with a BA in Theatre Arts in ‘82. Her first professional job was the female lead in the ground breaking British feature film PING PONG directed by fellow compatriot Po Chi’h Leong. This was the first feature film to try to explore the complex issues of the British-Chinese community.

Lili Zhao

2009-06-05T19:51:00+00:00

Lili Zhao 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 first worked in the financial sector before joining Shanghai media Ltd for its China Ethos magazine. Lili is high on life. She is full of curiosity and contradictions, and perpetually searching for the meaning of life – as well as for more beautiful dresses.

Daniel Jacoel

2009-05-24T19:23:01+00:00

Daniel Jacoel is a prominent figure in the development of Sino-British relations. Having achieved so much, it is hard to believe that this charismatic young man who received Premier Wen Jiabao in London, January 2009, is still a young leader. Daniel’s interest in his Chinese heritage inspired him to study Modern and Classical Chinese at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Since graduating, he has worked in Beijing and gone on to become the UK Chairman of the 48 Group Club Young Icebreakers.

Steven Cheung

2009-05-07T15:16:01+00:00

Steven Dominique Cheung is a British Chinese Filipino seeking support to stand in the June 4th European Election. He is the first British Chinese-Filipino MEP Candidate and the World's youngest. Born in Hong Kong on 7 October 1989 and grew up in London with two younger brothers, Steven's father is Chinese and his mother is Filipino. His family settled in the United Kingdom in 2002.

Fuchsia Dunlop 扶霞 (Fu Xia)

2009-04-10T14:45:01+00:00

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.

David Tse Ka-Shing

2009-04-03T05:12:00+00:00

David read law before training at Rose Bruford College (acting) and the Leicester Haymarket Theatre (directing). He studied Beijing Opera movement with Lee Siu Wah and during M. Butterfly with Jamie Guan. Inspired by East Asian physical style, he became Artistic Director of Yellow Earth Theatre where for 13 years, he successfully led the company to become the UK’s only revenue-funded British East Asian touring theatre.

Liz Chi Yen Liew 柳琪妍

2009-04-03T05:01:01+00:00

LIZ CHI YEN LIEW performs and composes as one half of British Chinese group Chi2 (see below) and plays the violin, piano and organ. She studied the piano and violin at the junior Royal Academy of Music, gained A's in practical and theoretical Music A levels, won an organ scholarship, then completed a Bachelor of Science Music degree at City University in London whilst also completing her Licentiate of Guildhall School of Music performance diploma. After her rigorous classical music training she ventured into the world of pop music and has since toured/performed/ recorded with Moby, Gnarls Barkley, Nelly Furtado, Lamb, Boy George, KLF/Orb, Barry Adamson amongst others.

John Gittings

2009-04-03T00:59:00+00:00

John Gittings was for many years chief foreign leader-writer and East Asia Editor at The Guardian. In the late 1960s he worked with the Far Eastern Economic Review in Hong Kong. He first reported from China in 1971 during the Cultural Revolution, when he visited with a delegation from the Society for Anglo-Chinese Understanding. A second visit in 1976, during the "April 5th Incident", was followed by regular travel while teaching at the Polytechnic of Central London (where he formed the basis of the Chinese poster collection -- now at the University of Westminster).

Benjamin Chan MSc MBCS MCLIP MInstLM FRSA

2009-03-03T05:02:00+00:00

Benjamin Chan, MSc MBCS MCLIP MInstLM FRSA, is a versatile keyboardist and high profile Information Library Professional. His Bigyellowband featured on the BBC website released a single in 2006 on I-Tunes and was keyboardist with the Top Hat Band, one of Bride magazine's best wedding bands in the UK in 2007. Ben also designs his own shirts for his gigs! Within his profession, Ben was one of the youngest to be admitted into the Chartered Institute of Library Information Professionals Professional Achievements Register and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and receives the prestigious Freedom of the City of London in the Summer of 2009.

Fung Lam 林丰

2009-01-20T19:06:00+00:00

With the premiere of his 23-minutes orchestral work Unlocking in May 2008 by the BBC Concert Orchestra and conductor Charles Hazlewood, Fung Lam became not only the first composer commissioned to compose a new work specifically for BBC Radio 3’s Discovering Music programme, but also the youngest Chinese composer ever to have received a commission from the BBC. Ranging from original concert and media works to various arrangements, sometimes involving both Western and Chinese instruments, Fung’s music has been performed around the world, including festivals such as the Cheltenham Music Festival, BASBWE International Wind Festival, Soundwaves Festival, Second Glance Festival, BBC Electric Proms, Musicarama (Hong Kong), Le French May (Hong Kong), as well as Asian Composers’ League Asian Music Festivals in Japan, Israel and New Zealand.