Here you will find something made in China, from books, paintings to cards, clothes and toys.

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Al Vandenberg
The driving force that now propels the good people of China into the 21st century is economic. Deng Xiapoing, the leading thinker in China's market economy, decreed 'to get rich is glorious'. He set in motion an unstoppable force - one country - two systems - socialism with Chinese characteristics. The single child policy has produced a well-educated, money driven, generation of young people living in a high-tech society. Politics is boring. Mao has become an art object. China’s building boom is a state-of-the-art work in progress. Young people have become the new heroes of the Revolution.

Black Cliff Monastery
Mumta Ito is currently working on a project to rebuild a Tibetan monastery in Qinghai Province, China.

Xu Zhongou
Xu Zhongou, from Chengdu in Sichuan, is a print artist, sculptor and painter and author of a standard text on print-making. He graduated from the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts and is now a member of its faculty.

Book Store

From China with Love - Emily Buchanan
Emily's long adoption process to Jade and Rose.

China Doll - Talia Carner
While American music icon Nola Sands is on a goodwill concert tour in China, a baby is thrust into her arms. Nola’s well-orchestrated life is thrown out of orbit as she bonds with the infant against her husband/manager’s plans. She resolves to save her from death in the dumping ground of China’s orphanages—only to find herself on a collision course with her label company’s business interests in the vast new market. Worse, the world's two superpowers, the U.S. and China's governments, are determined to silence her.

The changing face of China: from Mao to market - John Gittings
In this highly readable account, veteran journalist Gittings offers a fascinating glimpse into Chinese history, showing how China has undergone not one but two revolutions in the 60 years since Mao Zedong took the road to victory.


The Village of Stone - Guo Xiaolu
Xiaolu is a novelist, screenwriter and film maker. Her best-known book (so far), is The Village of Stone.

Music, Food and Love - Guo Yue & Clare Farrow
Music, Food and Love tells the story of the Chinese Cultural Revolution through the eyes of a musical child. Guo Yue, a bamboo flutes player and the youngest son of a traditional violinist, grew up in the poor and overcrowded courtyards and alleys of north-east Beijing in the 1960s...Music, Food and Love is also the title of Guo Yues new solo CD, which will be released in February 2006.

Wanting A Daugher, Needing A Son - Kay Ann Johnson
Kay Johnson's groundbreaking research on abandonment and adoption in China.

Liu Hong
Liu Hong grew up in the north-eastern province of Liaoning. She wrote her first novel, Startling Moon, published by Headline Review in 2001. Texto publishes her novels in Spain and Portugal and Quills in Indonesia. Her second novel The Magpie Bridge came out in 2003 and then The Touch in 2005.

Chinese Aarde - Nies Medema
Journalist Nies Medema travelled round China at the beginning of the nineties and received her first Chinese child ten years later...

Rice Ticket - Ged Neary
A campus novel set in Beijing and Wuhan, Rice Ticket looks at some of the present-day cultural, social, linguistic, and personal issues at play when foreigners and locals work together in an academic setting.

Wuhu Diary - Emily Prager
Lulu, the five-year-old daughter of Emily, went to Wuhu, a small city in Anhui, with her mother on 2001, one week before the NATO has bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade.

Sweet Mandarin - Helen Tse
This book is about my life as a British Born Chinese woman and the lives of her grandmother and mother, three generations of independent women in the restaurant and catering business. This book is about the lives of these women, all of whom lived in working class circles of their different eras and countries. Their lives are as dramatic as the times they lived through, they are strong characters who were not swept under by the cataclysms which descended on them.

Good Women of China - Xinran
This unforgettable book is the story of how Xinran negotiated the minefield of restrictions imposed on Chinese journalists to reach out to women across the country. Through the vivid intimacy of her writing, the women's voices confide in the reader, sharing their deepest secrets for the first time. Their stories changed Xinran's understanding of China forever. Her book will reveal the lives of Chinese women to the West as never before.

Sky Burial - Xinran
'Whatever happens,
remember one thing:
just staying alive
is a victory'
'She felt as if she had
entered a fairyland
where a thousand years
in the outside world
passed in a single day.'

What Chinese Don't Eat - Xinran
This is the collection of Xinran's column on G2 since 2004.

Reflections of the Moon on the Water - Zhao Xiaolan
One of Canada’s most trusted and beloved health practitioners introduces Western women to the wisdom of traditional Chinese medicine and the time-tested practices that have helped optimize physical and emotional health for centuries.

Merchandise

MBL Greeting Cards
MBL has launched its first set of greeting cards at the end of 2005, hand-drawn by five Chinese children in our Nanjing Children's Palace.

NeiMei
NeiMei wants to source and promote Chinese brands, designers and products that specialize in Chinese textiles, including regional brocades, speciality embroideries, and minority cotton prints. It would like to distinguish our sourcing and products by the Chinese textile specialities, the quality of the product and also the ethical labour conditions by which they were produced. Visit NeiMei at www.neimei.co.uk.

Sweet Mandarin
Sweet Mandarin, a pan-Asian restaurant in Manchester is the brain child of the three high achieving Tse sisters, who are the third generation of women restaurateurs.

Chinese artists and musicians

Dionisio Cimarelli
Here is his web site: www.dionisiocimarelli.com .

Bobby Chen
Bobby was born in Malaysia and is based in London as a young pianist, with regular appearances in mainstream London and British venues such as Bridgewater Hall, the Royal Concert Hall, the Royal Festival Hall, Purcell Room and the Wigmore Hall. Here is his web site: www.bobbychen.org.

Cheng Yu and the Chinese Music Ensemble
Cheng Yu is an internationally renowned pipa and guqin virtuoso, scholar and specialist in Chinese music. She is the founder of the UK Chinese Music Ensemble and London Youlan Qin Society...

Hu Ren (Kenny)
Kenny Ren is a professional entertainer from China. He is muti-talented and has appeared in numerous events over the years. Kenny can play various instruments including the saxophone, suona and piano. What is more, he often stuns his audience with his great magical skills. http://www.kennyren.co.uk

Meimei
An active performer and teacher of many styles of Oriental Dance

Panni Poh Yoke Loh
Panni is a British Chinese Artist who works with the colour of emotion, spirit painting the energy of the interactions of humans and the natural world.

Sun Zhuo
A renowned Chinese Zither player from Xi'an, she is studying for her Ph.D in University of London.

Yang Guohua
Yang Guohua has worked as a lecturer, an editor, in publishing and in Government administration. His current project is the management, conservation, development and use of world heritage sites in China.

Cultural Space

Border Crossings
Border Crossings creates new intercultural, multi-media theatre in response to the contemporary globalized world. The company works across the borders between cultures and art forms, and between nations and peoples. Since 1995, Border Crossings productions have toured the UK, Brazil, Egypt, France, Hungary, India, Mauritius, Mexico, the Seychelles and Zimbabwe. Their latest production is a multicultural, multimedia collision of East and West, Dis-Orientations.

Chinatown (in French)
Chinatown is a Chinese community association in Paris for the local Chinese population. www.chinatown.fr 

Chinatown the Magazine
The business & lifestyle magazine for the Chinese in UK, China and Asia.

Dimsum
Dimsum.co,uk is the website for the British Chinese community. 'Dimsum has emerged as one of the leading media voices of the Chinese and south-east Asian communities in the UK. Dimsum is media-savvy, brimming with confidence and it receives thousands of hits a month.' Dominic Casciani BBC News Online

EURASIA (in French)
Founded in 1986 in Meontpellier, France, EURASIA is an association to promote Chinese culture and Chinese awareness in France. http://www.eurasia-montpellier.org/

Hua Dan
An organisation to provide creative projects for Chinese people. Visit their web site at www.hua-dan.org.

Hun Yin
Welcome to www.chinahunyin.com. This website was founded by Ms. Xu Ying, a lawyer specialized in Chinese family law, and aims at providing information on family law and related service.

OrientalCentral
OrientalCentral is a cultural meeting point where we encourage the growth and celebrate the diversity of all oriental communities.

Talk Asia
Talk Asia is an online platform that was set up by Lisa and Helen Tse. Talk Asia is an online global facilitator that enables individuals and companies from around the world to talk about Asia. Talk Asia Think Asia is now live on radio every Wednesday.

Save the Children China Programme (Chinese Language)
Save the Children established a China Programme in Kunming in 1995. Up till now there are five offices in China, including Kuming, Beijing, Hefei, Xinjiang and Tibet.

Story Cola (Chinese Language)
Story Cola is a site with a large collection of lively Chinese folk stories as well as western stories, in Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and sometimes in English.

Adoption Groups

The Ladybugs
The Ladybug Chinese Adoption Group is based in Cornwall, UK. Currently they have six families, all of them have at least one child adopted from China. They have regular gatherings during the weekends. Excellent site with regular updates!