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These are the personal webpages of Graham Chan, a British Chinese creative writer

Anything on these pages may be freely copied or used provided the source is acknowledged.

Rivendell Utd.'s Championship-Winning Season

A parody of The Lord of the Rings from an anti-racism angle. It may amuse Tolkien addicts who are also football fanatics and movie geeks. It should annoy supporters of the British National Party. Read a short extract here.

Short stories

• • Discovery. In Dim Sum: British Chinese Short Stories (Crocus Books, 1997. ISBN 0 946745 56 0) Also broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 28th February 1997.

  • Through a Window. In Cultural Curiosity: Thirteen Stories about the Search for Chinese Roots, edited by Josephine Khu (University of California Press, 2001. ISBN 0-520-22341-1)

• Kristallnacht. In Brushstrokes, issue 5, February 1997, page 8.

• Beating Down Babylon. In Brushstrokes, issue 21, June 2002, pages 25-31.

• Remembering Auschwitz. In Brushstrokes, issue 22, October 2002, pages 28-30.

• How I Lost My Name. Earlier version in Brushstrokes, issue 4, November 1996, page 8.

• A boat trip in Fiji

Articles

• • The Chinese in Britain. Originally published as 'We're being researched!' in Brushstrokes, issue 12, June 1999, pages 4-7.

  • Brushstrokes and British Chinese writing in general. Prepared for the New Moves, Chinese Arts Conference, Victoria and Albert Museum, 18th December 1999.

  • The Politics of Literary Translation - Brushstrokes Magazine. Prepared for the conference on Writing Diasporas - Transnational Imagination, University of Wales Swansea, 20th - 23rd September 2000.

  • Chinese Whispers. Prepared for the opening of the Chinese Whispers Exhibition, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, September 2000, subsequently published in Brushstrokes, issue 17, February 2001, pages 4-6. A version also published in Identity Papers: Cross-cultural Writing from the UK (The British Council, 2001. ISBN 086355489X)

  • Another Identity Crisis? Prepared for the conference on Supporting Chinese Artists, Peterborough Museum, Art Gallery and Town Hall, 25th April 2001.

Reviews

• • Reckoning with the Past.

  • Representing the People.

  • Britain In China.

  • Equal Love.

Media

• • Chinese in Britain. Episode 3: From ship to shore. BBC Radio 4, 2nd May 2007.

  • The Shanghai Sailors. BBC Radio 4, 10th January 2004.

  • A Sense of Place: the Port. BBC Radio Merseyside, 5th May 2002.

  • Chinese Whispers. A film by David Yip. Mersey Film and Video (13 Hope St., Liverpool L1 9BQ), 2000.

  • BBC News 24 - 8th March 2005.

• Musical cartoons

• Wagneriffic

Useful Links

• Beyond the Takeaway

• Centre for Contemporary Chinese Art, Manchester

• Chinese in Britain

• British Born Chinese blog

• Banana Writers

• The Red Mansion Foundation

• Yellow Earth Theatre

• Hong Kong Adoptees Network

• Society for Anglo-Chinese Understanding

• Hong Kong Tourist Board

Note: Brushstrokes magazine ceased publication with issue 28, October 2004. A zip file containing all the published issues can be downloaded free from https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5cojAC_TguBdjNhY0tLODc2U3M/edit?usp=sharing