From Shore to Shore is a new play by Mary Cooper in collaboration with MW Sun that weaves together three revealing and moving stories drawn from different generations of people from the British Chinese community. Directed by Yellow Earth’s co- founder and former Artistic Director David K.S Tse (Song Unsung, Southbank, Running the Silk Road […]
Upon graduation at the University of the Creative Arts in the UK, Pal Pang received an honorary bachelors degree in interior design and returned to Hong Kong. He started out in a retail and commercial branch of interior design, such as shopping malls and residential development. Aside from being an examiner at the Hong Kong […]
By Emmanuelle Khoo Directed by Feng Xiaogang, I Am Not Madame Bovary is a stellar, satirical masterpiece that incorporates a powerful and intriguing storyline, a kick-ass heroine and beautiful cinematography. Playing the lead is none other than China’s superstar, Fan Bingbing. Fan plays Li Xuelian, a village woman who stages a fake divorce with her husband […]
The Guildhall School and Shanghai Opera House present the UK premiere of Wen Deqing’s original contemporary Chinese opera, The Wager on 26 & 27 May and a concert of traditional Chinese music on 22 May as part of a miniature residency by the Shanghai Grand Theatre Arts Group. A Faustian story of luck, temptation and fate, The […]
Timothy Taylor is to host Ding Yi’s first solo exhibition in London. Continuing his ongoing investigation, Appearance of Crosses, this show will present seven never-before seen paintings. As one of today’s preeminent Chinese contemporary artists Ding Yi’s work employs a distinctive language of mark-making to examine the function of abstract painting both as a personal […]
Frank To’s growing international reputation as a leading contemporary artist has led to the British born Chinese to be swamped by requests from prospective purchasers desperate to put down deposits to snap up his latest gunpowder series before they are even completed. To’s gunpowder art will be on show at the Glasgow Contemporary Art Fair, […]
“The first rule of doing business in China is also the last. Always bring your own translator.” Daniel, an American, wants to open up China for his business. There are only three things standing in his way: he can’t speak the language, he can’t learn the customs, and he’s falling in love with the one woman he […]
Two artists, Ingrid Christie and Fu Zi, living 5,000 miles apart, met in Beijing for the first time in 2015 in an exchange brokered by Li Rui, director of Dong Xi Stories. With neither artist speaking one another’s language, the only way they could communicate for an entire month was through painting. Fu Zi ‘I am not interested in politics […]
Firstsite, Colchester, presents Gesture and Form, a major solo exhibition by acclaimed Chinese artist Zhang Enli. The presentation marks the start of the gallery’s year-long focus on identity; a key component of Zhang’s artistic practice, from his depictions of commonplace objects, such as cardboard boxes, to his observations of the ordinary rituals of everyday life. […]
Snow in Midsummer plays in the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon until 25 March. Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig’s play is a new version of the ancient Chinese story, with Katie Leung playing the ghost of Dou Yi – falsely accused of murder and determined not to rest until justice is done. Pippa Hill, RSC Literary Manager talks to […]