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Chinese heritage project archived at Library of Birmingham

Fifteen months of work comes to fruition with permanent archive at city library

From left: James Wong, managing director of Chung Ying Group, Woon Wing Yip OBE, project participant and chairman of Wing Yip Superstores and WaiLo Li, project participant and founder of Project TOM

A British and Chinese heritage project has been permanently archived in the following 15 months of work.

Called Chinese Lives in Birmingham, it has been relaunched with a new-look blog, an eight-minute documentary video depicting the project's journey as well as a booklet, DVD, bilingual hardback photobooks and exhibition.

A legacy project for the city, it was created to capture the hidden history of after being awarded a grant of £35,600 from the Heritage Lottery Fund.

Anna Yim, chief executive of the Chinese Community Centre Birmingham, said: "We are delighted to have created this historical project and the library archives can now help reflect the lives of individual migrants and British Chinese, as well as the development of the Chinese community in Birmingham.

"We would like to thank everyone for their hard work, especially all the volunteers who have contributed over 1,610 hours - without whom, this project would not have been possible.

"We hope to build upon the success of this first project, pending funding, to take the heritage project on even further and help allow the Chinese community here to have a voice and be proud of their heritage."

More than 25 volunteers were involved and one even donated nine months of pro-bono time to the project.

Project participants included Woon Wing Yip OBE and Professor Rayson Huang CBE, the oldest participant who turned 95 years old this month.