22 November 2000
Thursday night at the Curzon Soho, the young crowd of dark-haired paparazzis and autograph hounds grouped around the entrance reminds us that Hong Kong star culture is still very much alive abroad.Cherise reviews the London Chinatown premiere of "In the Mood for Love", in the exclusive presence of Wong Kar-Wai, Maggie Cheung Man-Yuk and Tony Leung Chiu-Wai.

17 November 2000
After playing to incredible acclaim earlier this year, the Shaolin Monks return to the UK for an extended 25-date tour, commencing on 6th November. Wheel Of Life features a cast of twenty five ordained soldier monks, ranging in age from seven to seventy.

2 October 2000
Linda L immigrated from Vietnam to France as an adolescent in 1977, after attending a French school in Saigon. She now lives in Paris, where she has written all ten novels of her bibliography, including the venomous 'Slander', her first truly autofictional work in which she addresses the recurring themes of cultural exile and lost identity. Her acidly pertinent words confirm her home in literature, and her solitary voice speaks for all of us who seek refuge in an adopted language, who live in internal exile between the cultures of our citizenship and our heritage.

2 October 2000
We review an assortment of our favourite books on all aspects of Chinese culture.

1 August 2000
Brushstrokes is a magazine of British Chinese writing and drawing, published three times a year, with articles in both English and Chinese. It continues to be supported by Liverpool City Council, as well as more recently by the Chinese Arts Centre in Manchester, but it is produced by a team of volunteers who put it together in their spare time. If you would like to find out more about the magazine, either to contribute or subscribe,

3 October 2000
What is it about a couple that particularly catches your eye, so much so perhaps, that you can't help but watch them go by? A particularly handsome pairing? A woman taller than her man? A Chinese guy with a blonde girl?

3 October 2000
They don't call it 'culture clash' for nothing. When people from different backgrounds come together you can expect fireworks, even when there's love in the air. Sometimes sparks fly when long-held expectations or ideologies are negotiated. Sometimes people just can't get along. But where does the culture end and the person begin? Dimsum investigates.

11 September 2000
Written and directed by David KS Tse Commissioned by Sainsbury's Checkout Theatre - an initiative to encourage quality new theatre for the 10-14 age group. One of only two projects to win funding this year, Play To Win is a powerful mega-byte of theatre which looks at the forces behind gang violence, social exclusion and the need to belong.

8 September 2000
The Mu-Lan Youth Theatre comprises a group of creative, articulate, fun and funny young people and the same can be said of their production of "Chinkerella". The play works up to a film audition, with parent-child scenes dotted along the way. These scenes, with very amusing caricatures of extremely loud and grumpy Chinese mothers, describe important insights into Chinese values that the young people have gleaned. One scene depicted parental favouritism of the male child; another the Chinese parent's obsession with money and prestigious careers, and all with the message that acting is silly and therefore forbidden. But the most poignant moment came in the soliloquy of a young man who, caught between his desire to obey his mother and the desire to find himself, realised that going to the audition was just something he "had to do".

1 December 2000
The Albany Theatre, New Cross, sees a double-whammy celebration this weekend courtesy of the sterling Mu-Lan Theatre Company. Audiences will feast on eleven new works by New British Oriental writers, comprising ten small-scale performed readings and one larger, showpiece presentation "Dining Alone" (Lab Ky Mo).