About this event
Experience multiple layers of meaning of London’s Chinatown with an introduction to the heritage practice of diasporic Chinese in Europe and around the world, a primer on London's two Chinese communities and how they developed into Soho's Chinatown, and hear of heritage and community projects underway to support the area while it's under significant pandemic pressure. Join academic, practitioner and community voices, organised jointly by China Exchange and HOMELandS, to "visit" the area and hear new perspectives on the ways in which this iconic area of the Capital is fighting for survival and for its heritage to be recorded and recognised.
Programme
- Introduction: Negotiating diasporic Chinese identities in global museum and heritage-scape, Cangbai Wang
- Urban regeneration, community engagement and spaces: The Chinese in Europe, Giulio Verdini
- The making of Chinatown: from Limehouse to Soho, Xiao Ma
- Fighting for a Chinatown under pressure through heritage and community projects, Freya Aitken-Turff
- Chinatown Community voices
- Discussion, Q&A
Event facilitators
- Cangbai Wang (Humanities, University of Westminster)
- Giulio Verdini (Architecture and City, University of Westminster)
- Freya Aitken-Turff (China Exchange)
- Xiao Ma (Doctoral Researcher, Humanities).
