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Months after the crash, the Standard has added this article that references tributes to Chuijiang available on-line:
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/christina-kong-wood-lane-cyclist-lorry-westway-london-b980674.html
Some tributes:
https://www.abcairns.info/single-post/chuijiang-christina-kong
https://www.theonlinebookcompany.com/OnlineBooks/ChristinaKong/Member/Registration
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/energy-materials-devices/news/ (see under 11 November 2021)
As hamrack says, at Imperial College it evidently wasn't known that she was cycling when she was killed; all the pages only reference a 'road traffic accident'. Needless to say, it would have been just as bad had she been killed any other way. However, fatal incidents involving pedestrians tend to get less press coverage because between 50 and 80 pedestrians are killed in London every year, out of a much larger number of trips undertaken on foot, and so this is less 'newsworthy' than the deaths of cyclists, which are fewer, but out of a much smaller number of trips undertaken by bike.
That Chuijiang's mode of transport has only just come to light is probably a combined result of the pandemic, the reduction in newspaper capacity in London, and the fact that it was a hit-and-run collision with initially undoubtedly unclear circumstances. Even if there was CCTV, it is possible that this didn't capture the moment from an angle that enabled investigators to see what exactly happened.
There will be an inquest into her death in which further information may come to light, but it often takes more than a year for this to be held.