Contesting British Chinese Culture

Ashley Thorpe is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Drama, Theatre, and Dance, at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.Diana Yeh is Lecturer in Sociology, Culture and the Creative Industries at City, University of London, UK.

• 1. Contesting British Chinese Culture: Mapping the Terrain, Ashley Thorpe and Diana Yeh.- 2. The Cultural Politics of In/Visibility: Contesting ‘British Chineseness’ in the Arts, Diana Yeh.- 3. One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: Dancing in the margins / on the border of oblivion, Erika Tan.- 4. ‘A history written by our bodies’: artistic activism and the agonistic Chinese ‘voice’ of Mad For Real’s performances at the end of the twentieth century, Katie Hill.- 5. Testing, Contesting, susan pui san lok.- 6. Manchester’s Chinese Arts Centre: a case study in strategic cultural intervention, Felicia Chan and Andy Willis.- 7. From South China to South London: A Journey in Search of Home through Fine Art Practice, Anthony Key.- 8. The Artist-Photographer and Performances of Identity: The Camera as Catalyst, Grace Lau.- 9. British Chinese Cinema and the Struggle for Recognition, Even on the Margins, Felicia Chan and Andy Willis.- 10. Cinema of Displaced Identity, Rosa Fong.- 11. The Arts Britain Utterly Ignores: or; Arts Council Funding and State Intervention in British East Asian Theatre in the late 1990s and early 2000s, Ashley Thorpe.- 12. FACES Autobiographical Theatre and Cross-cultural Considerations, Veronica Needa.- 13. British Chinese Performance in Minor Transnational Perspective, Amanda Rogers.