September 6, 2026
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Curator
- Wenny Teo
Co-Curator
- Jo-Lene Ong
Participating Artists
- Clare Chun-yu Liu
- Hester Yang
- Musquiqui Chihying
- Lawrence Lek
- Chris Zhongtian Yuan
Research Assistants
- Lauren Rees
- Zixuan Yang
Generously Supported by
- The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Global
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Clare Chun-yu Liu is a UK-based Taiwanese artist filmmaker, researcher, and lecturer. Her project John Anthony (c. 1766-1805) explores the little-known history of the English East India Company’s Chinese employees migrating to east London in the late eighteenth century and early nineteenth century. Their successors were known for starting the first British Chinatown in Limehouse. Among them, John Anthony (whose Chinese name is unknown), an interpreter for the EIC, was the first Chinese person to become a British citizen. Wealthy and widely respected by both EIC and the Chinese community in London, he managed to be naturalised through an Act of Parliament in 1805. This sound-based work features a monologue of John Anthony, informed by a variety of sources: Anthony’s handwritten will from the National Archives, a pertinent court proceeding of the Old Bailey, as well as relevant literature. This fictional and yet historical storytelling shines a light on the pre-colonial history of Chinese employees working for the English East India Company in both Canton and London before the two Opium Wars (1839-1842 and 1856-1860).
Clare Chun-yu Liu is a UK-based Taiwanese artist filmmaker, researcher, and lecturer. Her project John Anthony (c. 1766-1805) explores the little-known history of the English East India Company’s Chinese employees migrating to east London in the late eighteenth century and early nineteenth century. Their successors were known for starting the first British Chinatown in Limehouse. Among them, John Anthony (whose Chinese name is unknown), an interpreter for the EIC, was the first Chinese person to become a British citizen. Wealthy and widely respected by both EIC and the Chinese community in London, he managed to be naturalised through an Act of Parliament in 1805. This sound-based work features a monologue of John Anthony, informed by a variety of sources: Anthony’s handwritten will from the National Archives, a pertinent court proceeding of the Old Bailey, as well as relevant literature. This fictional and yet historical storytelling shines a light on the pre-colonial history of Chinese employees working for the English East India Company in both Canton and London before the two Opium Wars (1839-1842 and 1856-1860).
Lawrence Lek
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Working in collaboration with Manchester-based Chinese composer and music theorist Arthur Yuen Po Hang, artist Musquiqui Chihying explores the composition of hybrid musical genres through five key concepts: Tradition, Bitterness, Transculturality, Improvisation, and Temporality. These serve as analytical frameworks, drawing on traditional music theory and historical study to examine how such themes are embedded and expressed in sound. The project also features contributions from Mohamed Gueye, a specialist in West African musical traditions, and Xuandi Zhang, who focuses on Chinese percussion.
MORE TEXT Working in collaboration with Manchester-based Chinese composer and music theorist Arthur Yuen Po Hang, artist Musquiqui Chihying explores the composition of hybrid musical genres through five key concepts: Tradition, Bitterness, Transculturality, Improvisation, and Temporality. These serve as analytical frameworks, drawing on traditional music theory and historical study to examine how such themes are embedded and expressed in sound. The project also features contributions from Mohamed Gueye, a specialist in West African musical traditions, and Xuandi Zhang, who focuses on Chinese percussion.
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Hester Yang
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Clare Chun-yu Liu
Clare Chun-yu Liu is a UK-based Taiwanese artist filmmaker, researcher, and lecturer. Her project John Anthony (c. 1766-1805) explores the little-known history of the English East India Company’s Chinese employees migrating to east London in the late eighteenth century and early nineteenth century. Their successors were known for starting the first British Chinatown in Limehouse. Among them, John Anthony (whose Chinese name is unknown), an interpreter for the EIC, was the first Chinese person to become a British citizen. Wealthy and widely respected by both EIC and the Chinese community in London, he managed to be naturalised through an Act of Parliament in 1805. This sound-based work features a monologue of John Anthony, informed by a variety of sources: Anthony’s handwritten will from the National Archives, a pertinent court proceeding of the Old Bailey, as well as relevant literature. This fictional and yet historical storytelling shines a light on the pre-colonial history of Chinese employees working for the English East India Company in both Canton and London before the two Opium Wars (1839-1842 and 1856-1860).
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Clare Chun-yu Liu is a UK-based Taiwanese artist filmmaker, researcher, and lecturer. Her project John Anthony (c. 1766-1805) explores the little-known history of the English East India Company’s Chinese employees migrating to east London in the late eighteenth century and early nineteenth century. Their successors were known for starting the first British Chinatown in Limehouse. Among them, John Anthony (whose Chinese name is unknown), an interpreter for the EIC, was the first Chinese person to become a British citizen. Wealthy and widely respected by both EIC and the Chinese community in London, he managed to be naturalised through an Act of Parliament in 1805. This sound-based work features a monologue of John Anthony, informed by a variety of sources: Anthony’s handwritten will from the National Archives, a pertinent court proceeding of the Old Bailey, as well as relevant literature. This fictional and yet historical storytelling shines a light on the pre-colonial history of Chinese employees working for the English East India Company in both Canton and London before the two Opium Wars (1839-1842 and 1856-1860).
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Clare Chun-yu Liu is a UK-based Taiwanese artist filmmaker, researcher, and lecturer. Her project John Anthony (c. 1766-1805) explores the little-known history of the English East India Company’s Chinese employees migrating to east London in the late eighteenth century and early nineteenth century. Their successors were known for starting the first British Chinatown in Limehouse. Among them, John Anthony (whose Chinese name is unknown), an interpreter for the EIC, was the first Chinese person to become a British citizen. Wealthy and widely respected by both EIC and the Chinese community in London, he managed to be naturalised through an Act of Parliament in 1805. This sound-based work features a monologue of John Anthony, informed by a variety of sources: Anthony’s handwritten will from the National Archives, a pertinent court proceeding of the Old Bailey, as well as relevant literature. This fictional and yet historical storytelling shines a light on the pre-colonial history of Chinese employees working for the English East India Company in both Canton and London before the two Opium Wars (1839-1842 and 1856-1860).
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Clare Chun-yu Liu is a UK-based Taiwanese artist filmmaker, researcher, and lecturer. Her project John Anthony (c. 1766-1805) explores the little-known history of the English East India Company’s Chinese employees migrating to east London in the late eighteenth century and early nineteenth century. Their successors were known for starting the first British Chinatown in Limehouse. Among them, John Anthony (whose Chinese name is unknown), an interpreter for the EIC, was the first Chinese person to become a British citizen. Wealthy and widely respected by both EIC and the Chinese community in London, he managed to be naturalised through an Act of Parliament in 1805. This sound-based work features a monologue of John Anthony, informed by a variety of sources: Anthony’s handwritten will from the National Archives, a pertinent court proceeding of the Old Bailey, as well as relevant literature. This fictional and yet historical storytelling shines a light on the pre-colonial history of Chinese employees working for the English East India Company in both Canton and London before the two Opium Wars (1839-1842 and 1856-1860).
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