Opportunities to understand China, Chinese culture and Chinatown

Crowdfunding Campaign Meets its Target

China Exchange has secured £22,776 in pledges through its crowdfunding campaign to Champion London Chinatown’s Heritage. The campaign was backed by 147 supporters, including Shaftesbury PLC and Westminster City Council. These funds will be used for projects this year to collect, record and celebrate heritage in London’s Chinatown.  Over the next few months China Exchange […]

Launching the Champion London Chinatown’s Heritage Campaign

China Exchange has launched a new crowdfunding campaign – the Chinatown-based charity’s most ambitious effort yet to create lasting and positive change in London’s Chinatown.  The campaign needs to secure £21,320 in pledges by 11 May to deliver projects that protect and celebrate unrecorded East and South East Asian heritage in Chinatown. The funds raised […]

WCMT funds new work at China Exchange on COVID-19 racism

China Exchange has been awarded a COVID-19 action grant from the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust (WCMT). The project will facilitate discussion about the impact of pandemic-linked racism on Chinatown, and provide a counter-narrative to racist sentiment and prejudice that is harming the communities that use this area. Throughout 2020, anti-Chinese sentiment has grown in the […]

Reflections on 2020 from China Exchange

China Exchange started 2020 with an injection of positivity. Four hundred people came to enjoy our Chinese New Year celebrations with Mothers Bridge of Love. Over 100 people joined our community-led walking tours in the first two months of the year. The cold weather couldn’t stop us from sharing the history of our special neighbourhood. […]

China Exchange’s Xiao Ma awarded prestigious PhD scholarship

Our Cultural Projects Manager and Researcher, Xiao Ma, has been awarded a prestigious PhD scholarship at University of Westminster. Xiao has begun her PhD project to research the cultural complexities of London’s Chinatown through critically examining the notion and practice of Chinatown heritage in global London. She fought stiff competition to be awarded a scholarship […]