Chinese Culture Exchange UK

We shall be featuring painters and musicians on these web pages in the future. We also arrange trips to China to give western people the chance to experience at first hand some of these skills. The best place to appriciate Chinese Culture is in its home!Hopefully we shall also be able to assist in bringing some of these artists to the west, to demonstrate or to teach their arts.

Sue Johnson is the President of the Chinese Cultural Exchange UK. which was formerly known as the "British East West Cultural Exchange Centre."

Born in Manchester in the UK, Sue was trained in classical ballet. Later she developed an interest in Martial Arts which then led to  her interest in Chinese Culture.

 From an early age she was always intrigued by China, but it was not until 1999 that she fulfilled her ambition to travel to the East! Since then she has made numerous trips and has visited many places - Shanghai, Suzhou, Hangzhou, Nantong, Tongzhou, Nanjing, Lianyungang, Xuzhou, Beijing and Zhengzhou to name but a few! She has climbed Tai Shan Mountain in Shandong and of course visited the Geat Wall several times!

Sue has been a practitioner of Chinese Martial Arts since 1990 and has practised Northern Shaolin, Wing Chun and Chen Style Tai Chi. She is the Principal Instructor of the British Chen Style Tai Chi College.

 British Chen Style Tai Chi College  Her hobbies include  Chinese Brush painting, studying Mandarin and playing the guitar. Now divorced, she has one son who currently lives with his father.

Contact Sue directly by email at taichi.college@yahoo.co.uk

or by phone: 0161 762 0609

Liu Yong is from Lianyungang City in Jiangsu Province. He is the Director of our Chinese Culture Exchange and lives in China with his wife and teenage daughter.

 A well known Tai Chi Master, he has been an Indoor student of Grandmaster Chen Zheng Lei since 1996 . Internationally renown he has students in Australia, Canada, USA, Turkey, India, Sri Lanka and the UK.

He is very fond of Chinese opera, and practises calligraphy in his spare time. Through his many connections in China he is able to introduce Chinese artists to the Western World. He can be contacted directly by

 email at taijiliu2000@yahoo.com.cn

Miss Yu lives in Nanjing, China. She is a well known poet and composer. A keen researcher into traditional Chinese Culture, she is well versed in the writings of Lao Tzu, " The Dao de Jing" and also the "Yi Jing" (I Ching) or "The book of Changes". 

Mengling is a representitve and Advisor to our Chinese Culture Exchange Centre. She is the author of the 清阁雅韵 诗, "Clear Pavilion Elegant Rhyme" poem. She has also published books and esseys on classical poetry. Mengling is very keen on Tai Chi Chuan and Kunqu Opera.

Similar to Beijing Opera, Kunqu is a type of folk opera which originated about 600 years ago in the Suzhou area of Jiangsu Province. The language used in this kind of opera is very poetic, like the classical chinese poetry. 

"The Peony Pavilion" is a typical example of this opera. It is mostly accompanied by bambo flute, chinese wind pipe and lute.

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