New Artwork to Celebrate Chinatown Heritage
New Artwork to Celebrate Chinatown Heritage Illustrator Cherie Kwok, our 2022 Made in Chinatown artist-in-residence, has created a beautiful new artwork to reflect the multiple layers of intangible cultural heritage, experiences, memories and meaning shared by community members and volunteers within London’s Chinatown. The illustration entitled Layers of Chinatown features elements that visitors may recognise […]
Wrapping up Chinese Write Now 2022
Wrapping up Chinese Write Now 2022 From May through to July, we welcomed nearly 600 people to our Chinese Write Now festival celebrating writers and writing from and about Chinese culture.This year’s festival saw the China Exchange team bring contemporary Chinese culture and writing to London, Nottingham, and Manchester and welcome people to talks, workshops […]
China Exchange to receive funding from the GLA’s Untold Stories programme
China Exchange to receive funding from the GLA’s Untold Stories programme More visitors will have the chance to learn about Chinatown’s heritage following support from GLA’s Untold Stories programme. The new project will result in stories available online that visitors can access from QR codes displayed in Gerrard Street. The funding is part of the […]
London Chinatown Food Heritage Trail Map Launches To Mark the Year of the Tiger
Visitors to London’s Chinatown can enjoy a new trail that explores the area’s food heritage highlighting parts of the neighbourhood that show traditional techniques, contemporary tastes, and ways of expressing ourselves through food and flavours. The free map is available in Chinatown from 1 February. The self-guided trail gives more detail about long-standing […]
Artists Confirmed for Chinatown Residencies
Two internationally exhibited artists have been selected for the Made in Chinatown project at China Exchange.
Volunteer Exhibition Tour Guides Wanted
As part of our The Making of Chinatown exhibition project we will be looking for volunteer exhibition tour guides from April 2019 to help us bring the exhibition to life in a fun, interactive and accessible way. Interested? Read more here.
Lost and Found: A Panel Discussion on 20 Years since Hong Kong’s Reunification with China Exchange
To mark the 20th anniversary of the transfer of sovereignty of Hong Kong from Britain to China, five experts, Dr Jinghan Zeng (Royal Holloway, University of London), Dr Winnie King (University of Bristol), Dr Zhiguang Yin (University of Exeter), Dr Astrid Nordin (Lancaster University) and Mr Nick Or (University of Southampton), came to […]
Exhibition: A journey to discover Hong Kong’s Intangible Cultural Heritage
Hong Kong is well-known for its dynamic international financial centre and the remarkable Victoria Harbour surrounded by modern landscapes. Sometimes known as the Pearl of the Orient, as a city where the West meets the East, Hong Kong is also famous for its unique culture. A journey to discover Hong Kong’s intangible cultural heritage […]
Synergy: When dance meets fashion
Fashion and theatre performance have long been linked. V&A collected fashion designer Rui Xu, created “Scarlet Infusion” – seven seductive and spellbinding costumes, for the Rashomon style dance theatre piece, Tea Spell, directed by Zhao Liang. On 17th August, Rui Xu and Zhao Liang came together with Professor Christopher Bannerman, performance artist Madaleine Trigg […]