The highly acclaimed Tang Shu-wing Theatre Studio from Hong Kong will perform its ground-breaking version of Shakespeare’s “Titus Andronicus” on Friday 4 (7.30pm) and Saturday 5 (2.30pm & 7.30pm) August at the New Diorama Theatre, 15-16 Triton St, Regent’s Park, London NW1 3BF. Created in 2009 in Hong Kong, Titus Andronicus 2.0 is a bold […]
Category: The Arts
Brand-new adaption of an iconic Chinese play debuting at Edinburgh Festival Fringe
The original play was written in Mandarin and has proved one of the most influential masterpieces of modern Chinese drama. It carries the same value and impact in China as Shakespeare’s canon does in the English- speaking world. The play was first staged in the Beijing People’s Arts Theatre in 1958. After the author Lao […]
British premiere of Datong – The Chinese Utopia
Hong Kong Arts Festival will present the European premiere of an exhilarating new chamber opera by Chan Hing-yan at Richmond Theatre on 27 and 28 July 2017. A century of Chinese history distilled into three acts, Datong – The Chinese Utopia tells the incredible story of utopian philosopher and constitutional reformer, Kang Youwei, through the viewpoint of […]
A century of Chinese history distilled into three acts, Datong – The Chinese Utopia
Hong Kong Arts Festival will present the European premiere of an exhilarating new chamber opera by Chan Hing-yan at Richmond Theatre on Thu 27 & Fri 28, July 2017. A century of Chinese history distilled into three acts, Datong – The Chinese Utopia tells the incredible story of utopian philosopher and constitutional reformer, Kang Youwei, through the […]
Lang Xiao interviews Shan Shui artist Wu Ke ahead of London exhibition
LONDON — Wu Ke (b.1969), an established painter from China will present his unconventional creations of traditional Chinese landscape paintings to a British audience for the first time, at his forthcoming solo exhibition Another Shan Shui at Cookhouse Gallery Chelsea College of Arts this September (21st-26th). By Lang Xiao – ARTouch Consulting (艺触咨询) Lang Xiao: In the UK, Chinese Shan Shui […]
ANOTHER SHAN SHUI – WU KE SOLO EXHIBITION at Chelsea College of Arts
中文版在文章第二部分 LONDON — Wu Ke (b.1969), an established painter from China will present his unconventional creations of traditional Chinese landscape paintings to a British audience for the first time, at his forthcoming solo exhibition Another Shan Shui at Cookhouse Gallery Chelsea College of Arts this September (21st-26th). Shan Shui (literally ‘mountain-water’) or the art of Chinese landscape is regarded as […]
British Chinese in Profile: Dr Johnny Hon – International Investor and Philanthropist
Few can people can proudly boast to have achieved as many things in one lifetime as Dr Johnny Hon – international investor, entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is passionate about uniting the East and the West in a myriad of ways and has been extremely successful in his endeavours. Dr Hon was born in Hong Kong […]
Senior Artist of the People’s Republic of China to hold private view in British Museum
Senior Artist of the People’s Republic of China, Zhang Huafeng is holding a private view of 30 of his works at the Clore Centre for Education in the British Museum on Tuesday 13 and Wednesday 14 June 2017. Zhang Huafeng is both a prolific and prestigious Chinese artist, integrating a Baoshi style of Chinese impressionism […]
Chinese student Junchi Deng at Royal College of Music to play in British film
Junchi Deng, a young Chinese musician in his last days of post graduate studies at the Royal College of Music in London, has been chosen by BAFTA winning director Christine Edzard to play solo accordion in her new film adaptation of The Good Soldier Schwejk. Her new feature film will be shot entirely inside the […]
Chinese cellist announced as International Chair in Cello at UK conservatoire
Born in Xi’an, China, and today splitting his time between Shanghai and London, Jian Wang has an international career that has seen him perform with many of the world’s leading orchestras. On taking up his new position as International Chair of Cello at Birmingham Conservatoire, Jian Wang said: “Birmingham Conservatoire is one of the leading […]